Halo: Spartan Assault now broadly available in U.S. for Windows Phone 8
Halo: Spartan Assault, the first mobile game in the franchise’s 12-year-history, has been impressing critics and racking up lots of glowing 5-star reviews since its worldwide debut last month. Geek.com...
View ArticleHow To Setup Your Own Direct Access Lab With Windows Server 2012
Hello there! Welcome to this edition of the Ask PFEPlat Blog. I’m Tom Daniels with the PFE team here to show you how to setup a basic DirectAccess server configuration. These instructions below will...
View ArticleTemporary Post Used For Theme Detection (7ab197fd-5a59-4a15-968b-0d34e1292f6c...
This is a temporary post that was not deleted. Please delete this manually. (dadfc9ff-f913-421e-84b5-731383c76172 - 3bfe001a-32de-4114-a6b4-4005b770f6d7)
View ArticleWindows Phone App Studio Beta response exceeds expectations, new capabilities...
Windows Phone App Studio beta has been live for almost two weeks – with a few hiccups. Today I’d like to share a few of the learnings and tell you about enhancements we’re releasing today. First of...
View ArticleSkype is now available for all Outlook.com customers in North America
Skype for Outlook.com is now fully available in several countries around the globe including the United Kingdom, Germany, Brazil, France, Canada, and the United States. For those of you outside those...
View ArticleKB: You cannot access the System Center 2012 Operations Manager AppAdvisor...
Consider the following scenario: - You are using Microsoft System Center 2012 Operations Manager. - The Application Advisor (AppAdvisor) console is installed on a different computer than the server...
View ArticleKnown Issue and Workaround: Distribution Point Drive information is missing...
With System Center 2012 Configuration Manager, you can migrate data from a supported Configuration Manager source hierarchy to your destination hierarchy. During the migration period, you can enable...
View ArticleVS/TFS 2012.4 (Update 4) RC 2 is available
Three weeks ago I announced that there will, in fact, be a fourth update to VS/TFS 2012. It’s going to be a very small update – really not much more than key bug fixes. It’s going to ship sometime...
View ArticleMonitoring your private cloud using System Center 2012 Virtual Machine...
If you haven’t seen the Cloud OS video series on our Building Clouds site, it’s a series of videos that helps you understand the technology, deployment, and management of the Cloud OS by leveraging...
View ArticleMonitoring your private cloud using VMM 2012 and Operations Manager 2012
If you haven’t been following the Cloud OS video series over on our Building Clouds blog, it’s a collection of videos that help you understand the technology, deployment, and management of the Cloud OS...
View ArticleHyper-V WMI v2 Porting Guide
I have been getting more and more questions about how to use the Hyper-V v2 WMI namespace recently – so I have just created a TechNet Wiki article that links to a number of samples / documentation...
View ArticleCIM Cmdlets – Some Tips & Tricks
Common Information Model (CIM) cmdlets have been around for a while, and come in handy when you are performing any CIM operation in PowerShell. They are easy to use, and provide a good user experience....
View ArticleAccessing the ASP.NET Web Configuration Tool in Visual Studio 2013
As many of you have noticed, the option to select “ASP.Net Web Configuration Manager” is no longer in Visual Studio 2013 Preview. This is due to the removal of the Visual Studio Development Server (or...
View ArticleReversal of fortune: Sirefef’s registry illusion
I have mentioned in a previous blog that the use of the right-to-left-override (U+202E) unicode character is nothing new. This blog also went on to show the various file name tricks used by...
View ArticleBooks online for Power BI
The Microsoft Office website now has some books online resources for Power BI.Power BI Getting Started Guide :...
View ArticleLocked out? Not with OnStar RemoteLink for Windows Phone
The free OnStar RemoteLink app is now available in the Store for Windows Phone 7.5 and 8. The app lets GM owners check the tire pressure and the oil and fuel levels (something drivers do more than a...
View ArticleAsk an Expert your Windows Azure Questions
Learn more about Windows Azure directly from the experts at Microsoft: Join Microsoft Technical Evangelist, David Tesar and Microsoft Group Product Manager, David Aiken at 9am PT on August 27 for a...
View ArticleOrchestrator Back to Basics – Use Cases Spotlight
With automation getting an increasing focus in our stack and datacenter/cloud discussions, we thought it would be interesting to take a step back and look at some of the usage cases for automation,...
View ArticleBetter Together - The New Windows Server 2012 R2 Innovations – Download Now
There are quite a few products that make up the Microsoft Cloud OS vision. Windows Server 2012 R2 is in preview right now and ready for your evaluation. We also have a strong management platform that...
View ArticleSneak Peek at Asphalt 8: Airborne coming this fall
Gameloft today has announced a full slate blockbuster titles for Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8, with 15 games slated over the next twelve months, starting this fall with Asphalt 8: Airborne and Dungeon...
View Article