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Create Our New Year’s Greeting & Win a SQL Server Swag Set
Enter the New Year Cover Photo Challenge and help us ring in 2013 with a ‘Happy New Year’ themed message to the SQL Server community! Submit an image or photo of your own design that we can use as our...
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Outlook Weather Bar: Is it raining cats and dogs?
If you’re running Outlook Customer Preview, you may have noticed the Outlook Weather Bar that sits on the top of your calendar.We’ve heard from you that it’s helpful to see the weather daily as you...
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Regulatory Compliance Considerations for SQL Server Running in Windows Azure...
Editor's note: This post comes from Il-Sung Lee, SQL Server Engine Security Program Manager.Earlier this year, we announced the availability of HIPAA Business Associate Agreement (BAA) for Windows...
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The ASUS VivoTab RT at 30,000 feet
I had been avidly awaiting the arrival of a new Windows 8 PC after months of reading reviews and seeing pictures. The ASUS VivoTab RT was one that caught my attention early on because it was a truly...
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Sharing from your app
In Windows 8, sharing is a ubiquitous experience and a natural user expectation. Users often come across content in your app that they’re excited to share with friends or use in another app. As a...
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Preview of coming changes to the external sharing features in SharePoint Online
When the SharePoint 2013 updates start getting rolled out to your SharePoint Online sites, you will notice some changes and improvements to the external sharing capabilities in SharePoint Online: The...
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How to increase the timeout for Migration Jobs in System Center 2012 Virtual...
Alvin Morales here, and today I wanted to talk for a moment about how you can control the timeouts for multiple migrations in VMM 2012. In System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager Service Pack 1, we...
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App Certification Holiday Schedule: Open for Business
With the holidays rapidly approaching, I wanted to confirm that the Windows Phone Store will be open for business during the holiday timeframe. Since the launch of Windows Phone 8 in late October, we...
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Connection to Office 365 Account may Fail or Timeout When You Try to Connect...
When you try to connect to Office 365 from the Windows Server 2012 Essentials Dashboard, the connection may fail or timeout. Here is how the Office 365 tab shows up:It will eventually time out without...
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Update Rollup 4 for Windows Small Business Server 2011 Essentials Available Now
Windows Small Business Server 2011 Essentials Update Rollup 4 has been released today and is available for download from Microsoft Update. You can read about the issues this rollup addresses in...
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Using Windows Server 2012 Essentials with more than 25 users
[Today's post comes to us courtesy David Fabritius from Windows Server Marketing]Windows Server 2012 Essentials is primarily designed as a first server solution for small businesses that need support...
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5 addictive indie games for Windows Phone
Xbox often rightfully takes the spotlight when it comes to Windows Phone games, but there are tons of fun and deserving indie titles in the Store, too. So this list is for the little guys. If you’re...
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Expanding our commitment to Windows Store games
Today the Windows Store begins accepting games with a rating of PEGI 18.Windows has long been a favorite platform for games of all types, and age rating support for PEGI 18 is another step forward in a...
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Talking about .NET in the Community Press
We follow a lot of blogs and digital papers relating to both .NET and also technology in general. There is a lot of great content that gets published every day about .NET. We’re starting a new series...
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What’s new for gamers in Windows Phone 8
Games—who doesn’t love them? You play them when you’re happy, when you’re sad, when you’re bored, and even (for better or worse) when you’re busy. A huge part of owning a smartphone is about games and...
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Starting a saved virtual machine–with a missing virtual hard disk
I came across a person with this problem on our forums recently:If you have a virtual machine that is in a saved state, but one of the virtual machines disks is now missing for some reason, you cannot...
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IFraming SharePoint-hosted pages in apps
This post is brought to you by Matt Swann, Senior Security Engineer on the SharePoint security team, and Humberto Lezama-Guadarrama, Program Manager on the Office Developer Platform team.When you build...
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SharePoint 2013 Snippets: Shredded Storage
I’ve been spending this week learning about SharePoint 2013 on the Ignite training. Partly in an effort to get this knowledge to stick in my brain, I’m going to be writing a series of blog posts on...
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SharePoint 2013 Snippets: Access Services
Access Services is an interesting topic in the 2013 context. When this was described to me, my first reaction was, “but we could do that in 2010.” Then you scratch the surface and discover that...
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Windows Phone “App to the Future” Design Challenge
Although this blog is primarily a destination for developers, we all know that design is important. So today, we’d like to make a call for designer talent. For the second year, we’ve joined Core77 and...
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