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Recap: #AzureChat - Virtual Machines and Autoscaling
Thank you to everyone who joined Corey Sanders and Stephen Siciliano for an #AzureChat. It was great to hear the community’s voice in this live discussion about two of our favorite topics--Virtual...
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Pie in the Sky (December 6th, 2013)
Here is a summary of the links I've found interesting this week.CloudWindows Azure is going to Brazil Or rather adding Brazil as a region (data center) sometime in early 2014.JSON support for Windows...
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Windows themes and wallpapers: both old friends and new
The holidays can be a time to reconnect with old friends. It’s also the time of year when I bring out dusty cardboard boxes of fragile glass ornaments nested in tissue paper, as well as awkwardly...
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Performance++ with Visual C++ 2013
For Visual Studio 2013 we have continued to improve the analysis performed by the Visual C++ compiler so it can produce code that runs faster than before. In this blog we highlight some of the many...
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Orchestrated offline VM Patching using Service Management Automation
My Name is Thomas Roettinger and I am a Program Manager in the Windows Server System Center Customer Architecture & Technology Team working in the fabric management space together with various...
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Three all new Windows 8.1 video tutorials - what's new in 8.1, keyboard...
I'm really happy with the response from my "Windows 8 moved my cheese" YouTube Tutorial. It's helped thousands of people lose their fear of the change that Windows 8 represents. I encourage you to...
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Manage OAuth2.0 access tokens with Sina Weibo service
An app for Office often accesses external resources such as search results, blog posts, and videos. To do that, authorization with third-party web-services is required. In this post we share our...
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Angry Birds Go! races onto Windows Phone 8
As popular as the Angry Birds games have been over the years, it’s hard to imagine there’s something they haven’t done. But Rovio’s new Angry Birds Go!, which went live in the Windows Phone Store early...
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The Garage Series: How to set up Office 365 for your small business - getting...
Video 17:43. This week we continue our series dedicated to Office 365 for your small business. We explain the differences between Office 365 Small Business and Office 365 Small Business Premium. Then...
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Making Visual Studio Accessible
Microsoft as a whole is committed to making our technology accessible to everyone (see our Accessibility Mission Statement). This is true for us here in Visual Studio as well, and we work continuously...
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Outlook.com makes it even easier to switch from Gmail
Today, we are announcing a new service that makes it easier than ever to import your Gmail account to Outlook.com. This will be rolling out to everyone over the coming weeks, so if you don't have...
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Microsoft and Dell’s Continued Collaboration on VDI Solutions on Display at...
In October, we announced Windows Server 2012 R2 which delivers several exciting improvements for VDI solutions. Among the benefits, Windows Server 2012 R2 reduces the cost per seat for VDI as well as...
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Hands-On with Oculus Rift Virtual Reality Development Kit
Virtual Reality (VR) is not entirely new. Various forms of computer-based VR systems have been in existence since the 1980s. What is new is the emergence of VR technology that is suitable and...
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Virtual Machine Role Example Kit
This post is part of a series for the Building Clouds Blog Gallery Items for Collaboration Workloads. For more information see the following Table of Contents post - http://aka.ms/bcbgicw.OverviewThis...
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VMRole Gallery Item – Lync Server 2013
This post is part of a series for the Building Clouds Blog Gallery Items for Collaboration Workloads. For more information see the following Table of Contents post - http://aka.ms/bcbgicw.OverviewThe...
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VMRole Gallery Item – SharePoint Server 2013
This post is part of a series for the Building Clouds Blog Gallery Items for Collaboration Workloads. For more information see the following Table of Contents post - http://aka.ms/bcbgicw.OverviewThe...
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VMRole Gallery Item – Exchange Server 2013
This post is part of a series for the Building Clouds Blog Gallery Items for Collaboration Workloads. For more information see the following Table of Contents post - http://aka.ms/bcbgicw.OverviewThe...
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Windows Azure Pack VMRole Gallery Items for Collaboration Workloads
Readers of BCB, I am happy to announce the first round of Building Clouds Blog Windows Azure Pack VMRole Gallery Items! Table of ContentsBuilding Clouds Blog Windows Azure Pack VMRole Gallery...
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Service Management Automation: Integrating into the OData web service
SMA has a number of interfaces to enable you to manage the overall system. The main one you probably use on a daily basis is the Windows Azure Pack admin portal as shown below. This allows you to...
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VMRole Guide for the Service Template Admin
I recently took on a special project to create example gallery items for Windows Azure Pack. I was given a few goals to work with:Think about the example service templates our team has released,...
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