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The Hyper-V Team at VMworld 2013 - Fun Times and Frozen Custard
Many VMworld 2013 attendees looked at Hyper-V a long time ago, and haven’t kept up with the progress our platform has made in recent years. If you count yourself among this group, we at Microsoft would...
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PASS Summit 2013 - Get the 411 on Sessions
Join community experts and Microsoft leaders October 15-18th at 2013 PASS Summit in Charlotte! Quentin Clark, VP of Microsoft's Data Platform Group, is returning to kick off the event with...
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Find answers and visualize data with SharePoint
SharePoint can help you share with others and get organized, but did you know SharePoint also can help you find answers, discover insights, connect with experts, and visualize data for your business?As...
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Now in the Store: Temple Run Oz for Windows Phone 8
You’re definitely not in Kansas anymore. Temple Run Oz($0.99), the popular movie-themed installment of the classic runner, is now available for Windows Phone 8. In the game, you turn, jump, and slide...
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Dell PowerEdge VRTX: 4-Node Cluster-in-a-Box That Can Be Deployed in 45 Minutes
Hi Folks –Dell’s latest server, the PowerEdge VRTX Shared Infrastructure Platform is an incredible cluster-in-a-box that delivers highly-available services and storage in one beautiful package. There...
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KB: "No such file or directory" error when you try to install a Unix agent
Consider the following scenario: - You are running Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2. - You recently applied System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 Cumulative Update 6 or Cumulative...
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Service Management Automation Runbook Spotlight: Virtual Machine Startup by...
Microsoft’s Charles Joy just posted part 1 of his 2 part series that contains SMA/PSv3 workflow examples on virtual machine startup by priority. This is a great post that also serves to bridge from...
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KB: The System Center Cloud Services Process Pack installer may fail
When you run the System Center Cloud Services Process Pack installer, the installer may fail. When this occurs, the following exception is logged in the SCCloudServicesSetupWizard.log file:...
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Halo: Spartan Assault adds 5 new missions, supports more Windows Phones
Can’t get enough of Halo: Spartan Assault? Well, suit back up, Spartans, because the fight against the Covenant is far from over. Operation Hydra, a free game update with five new missions to battle...
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The Magic of using Asynchronous Methods in ASP.NET 4.5 plus an important gotcha
First, I encourage you to listen to episode 327 of the Hanselminutes podcast. We called it "Everything .NET programmers know about Asynchronous Programming is wrong" and I learned a lot. I promise you...
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Keeping VM Configurations in Sync with Hyper-V Replica
Yesterday I posted about my new home setup, which makes heavy use of Hyper-V Replica.When you first setup Hyper-V Replica for a virtual machine – we copy the virtual machine configuration and storage...
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New resources--using Office Open XML in apps for Word
The JavaScript API for Office (Office.js) provides a way for developers to manipulate rich content in a Microsoft Word document by using Office Open XML. This blog post highlights a recently published...
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Announcement: Configuration Manager Documentation Library Update for August 2013
The Documentation Library for System Center 2012 Configuration Manager and the Configuration Manager 2007 Documentation Library have been updated on the web and the latest content has Updated: August...
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CSF Series: Telemetry Data Pipeline
Editor's note: This post was written by Silvano Coriani. Telemetry – Reporting Welcome to the fourth blog entry on designing and implementing the Telemetry component in Cloud Service Fundamentals (CSF)...
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MAT 1.5 is available (now with NIC recreation!)
I am happy to announce that MAT 1.5 is now available. Grab your copy now: The MAT 1.5 brings a large number of improvements over the previous MAT and also puts the MAT and the MAT (Powered by Project...
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How to Use a Picker as a Filter in your LightSwitch apps
I’ve gotten more than a few questions over the last couple months on how to do this common pattern for filtering data based on a picker. For instance, I have a table of customers and I want to pick...
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Maximize code reuse when building for Windows Phone 8 and Windows 8
You likely already know that Windows Phone 8 is built on the same shared core as Windows 8. You might also be aware of some of the benefits this shared core offers app developers who want to write apps...
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Showcasing Your Community Participation with Community Badges
We are excited to announce the introduction of Office 365 Community badges! If you’re paying attention, you may have already seen some badges starting to appear. Badges will display on your profile and...
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Go Back to School with the HP ENVY 23 TouchSmart All-in-One Desktop PC
If you are in the market for a new PC for the family, look no further than the HP ENVY 23 TouchSmart. This All-in-One will not only be the new entertainment hub in your house, but it will also be just...
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Introducing PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC)
Hello readers! In this blog post I will be introducing PowerShell Desired State Configuration (hereafter called DSC). I will explain what it is and how you can use it so that it can serve as a primer...
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