List of all cumulative update releases for System Center 2012 Service Manager...
~ Bruno Gabrielli | Premier Field EngineerThis article lists all cumulative updates that were released for Microsoft System Center 2012 Service Manager (SCSM 2012) SP1. The updates are listed according...
View ArticleInside Windows Phone 61 – Building for Windows Phone and Windows 8 - The Basics
This blog post was authored by Matthias Shapiro, a technical evangelist at Microsoft. - Larry One of the exciting elements about building an app for Windows Phone is that a properly designed and...
View ArticleUse SignalR Sample Nuget package in VS2013 Preview MVC 5 Project
We received feedback that the current 1.2 version SignalR sample Nuget package doesn’t work in an MVC 5 project by default. Here are the repro steps and the necessary change to make it work.1. Create a...
View ArticleWatch Now - Faster Business Insights for All. Big Data. Small Data. All Data.
At Microsoft we believe that data, big and small, goes through a process or lifecycle called the Data Science Process, and is as relevant today as it was hundreds of years ago.The first step along the...
View ArticleImportant Announcement: AD FS 2.0 and MS13-066
Hi everyone, Adam and JR here with an important announcement.We’re tracking an important issue in support where some customers who have installed security update MS13-066 on their AD FS 2.0 servers are...
View ArticleImportant Announcement: AD FS 2.0 and MS13-066
Hey y’all, Mark here with a quick announcement. There have been reports of customers running into some ADFS issues after applying this past Tuesday patches, specifically MS13-066. Our partners in...
View ArticleWhat’s New in 2012 R2: Cloud-integrated Disaster Recovery (DR)
Disaster can strike anywhere at any time. Ask any business owner in New Orleans about the importance of Disaster Recovery (DR). You can bet Katrina left an indelible impression on the importance of...
View ArticleKB: Error 2927 when you add a Hyper-V server or a Hyper-V cluster node in...
Consider the following scenario. You add a Hyper-V server or a Hyper-V cluster node on a server that is running one of the following versions of Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager (VMM): -...
View ArticleCheck out the Operations Manager 2012 Learning Roadmap
There’s a new app available that you’ll want to check out if you’re needing a quick and easy way to get started learning the basics of System Center 2012 Operations Manager. It’s called the Operations...
View ArticleCreating a UI for Background Transfer Requests
This blog post was authored by Nate McMaster, a Program Manager Intern on the Windows Phone team. - AdamIn the Windows Phone Toolkit - August 2013 update we add a TransferControl element to the set of...
View ArticleAnnouncing TraceEvent – Monitoring and Diagnostics for the Cloud
In this post, Vance Morrison, software developer on the .NET Runtime team, will talk about the TraceEvent NuGet library we just shipped. -- ImmoI am happy to report that we have just released the...
View ArticleTouchdown! The NFL launches a redesigned app for Windows Phone 8
The National Football League enters its second week of 2013 preseason matchups tonight. And now you can follow the action with the official NFL Mobile app, which was just relaunched for Windows Phone...
View ArticlePie in the Sky (August 16th, 2013)
Most of this week has been vacation for me, so not too many links for this weekend. Still, I've managed to find time to check my RSS feed and mark some interesting articles for future...
View ArticleImproved Application Availability During Online Operations in SQL Server 2014
SQL Server 2014 introduces enhancements to two common database maintenance operations namely Partition Switching and Online Index Rebuild which greatly increases enterprise application availability by...
View ArticleOffice 365 news round-up
Whether it's a great new restaurant, a low-maintenance car, or an innovative appliance, spotting a sweet deal makes us feel good. Why? Because we know we're getting top value for our money. IT...
View ArticleThe Edge Show: Talking About the “Transform the Datacenter” Pillar
Now that we’ve wrapped up the “Transform the Datacenter” pillar in the ongoing What’s New in 2012 R2 blog series, I sat down (well, we stand the whole time) for another conversation with Rick Claus,...
View ArticleFresh Paint, Microsoft’s popular art app, now works on more Windows Phones
Fresh Paint, Microsoft’s popular free art app first released on the phone last month, has just been updated to support Windows Phone 8 models with 512MB of RAM. Grab it here. In the weeks since its...
View ArticleIgnite Events are Back!
I’m pleased to announce our next series of Ignite events! Ignite Summits are unique and special events for IT Pros and Developers delivered by the Office team. We share our knowledge and experience...
View ArticleInstall MVC4 HotTowel SPA NuGetNuGet package in One ASP.NET Web API Project...
I was trying to install MVC4 HotTowel SPA package (MVC4 and Razor v2) on a VS2013 Preview One ASP.NET Web API Project (MVC5 and Razor V3). I blindly let the NuGetNuGet package overwrite all my files...
View ArticleCoded UI Test Gesture support in Visual Studio 2013
As part of Coded UI Test’s support for windows store apps introduced in Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 as detailed in this blog , there is now playback support for touch gestures on Windows Store Apps....
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