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Measuring Replication Health in a cluster
As part of running a mini-scale run in my lab, I had to frequently monitor the replication health and also note down the replication statistics. The statistics is available by by right clicking on the...
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Faster Live Migration–Which Option Should You Choose?
Okay, now that I have talked about faster live migration with compression and faster live migration with RDMA– one of the first questions that comes to mind is: which option is right for you?When we...
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How to create a service integration add-in for Windows Server Essentials...
[Today’s post comes to us courtesy of Zachary Yang and Rui Ling from Sustained Engineering]Several Microsoft online services, such as Office 365, Windows Azure Backup, and Dynamics CRM Online, use...
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What's New: December 2013
Happy Holidays from the Office 365 team! After all of the November updates, December has been a less busy month as we continue to plan and develop new features and listen to customer suggestions....
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Dell Precision M3800: Ultra-High Resolution Touch Laptop that’s also a...
Imagine a laptop that’s thin and light that also has a beautiful 15” ultra-high resolution 10 point multi-touch screen. Now imagine it’s also equipped with high-performance workstation-class internal...
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New emulators available for Windows Phone 8.0 Updates 2 and 3
Available now, you can download new emulator images for Windows Phone 8.0 Updates 2 and 3 from the Microsoft Download Center, and install them on your existing Windows Phone SDK 8.0 installation.Update...
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SCVMM 2012 R2 and Alternate Credentials
A little while ago I updated my home installation to run Windows Server 2012 R2. This provided the perfect opportunity to deploy System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) in my home. Overall this...
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Linux Integration Services 3.5 Announcement
We are pleased to announce the release of Linux Integration Services version (LIS) 3.5. As part of this release not only have we included several awesome features much desired by our customers but we...
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Weathr, a 3D Weather App now on CodePlex
Welcome to 2014. May all your C++ code run perfectly! Thomas Petchel wanted really to explore the intersection among C++, DirectX, and XAML in the context of a Windows Store app. The result? Weathr , a...
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Notable apps in 2013 - Part 1 of 3
This has been a big year for apps and our lives continue to change and adapt as everyday tasks are made easier by our new devices. Our phones, tablets and PCs are playing an important role in how we...
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Deployment–PDT 2.5.2509, resolves Configuration Manager media validation
Just posted a tiny update to the published version of PDT to resolve the media validation issue with System Center 2012 R2 Configuration Manager Prerequisites. There are no other changes in this...
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The Garage Series: Office 365 in education - putting IT, teacher and student...
Video 20:58. Not everyone knows that Office 365 Education A2 is free for students, faculty and staff. This week's show puts the free tools and experiences to the test in the classroom to enable...
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SCVMM 2012 R2 – Error 2912 NO_PARAM when using Hyper-V Replica
Another early issue that I hit when using System Center Virtual Machine Manager in my home deployment was that a number of operations would generate this error message:It took a fair bit of...
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Notable Apps in 2013 - Part 2 of 3
Today, I split my time between Games and Social apps. I’ll share some great social apps below, but I wanted to start with games, because there’s really a game for everyone’s taste. Of course, games...
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Analyzing Black Friday and Cyber Monday Results with Power BI
With the holiday shopping craziness over, we wanted to use Power BI to analyze the last 5 years of research around Black Friday and Cyber Monday including spending, new trends in online shopping and...
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Using Event Logs to Diagnose Errors in Desired State Configuration
Windows PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC), just like any other Windows software, records errors and events in logs that can...
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Week of December 30: KB alerts, new book on IPv6, new application...
Happy New Year! I’m back at work after a much-needed vacation. Check out the blogs from the last couple of weeks, discussing new KBs, the complete documentation for Windows Server 2012 R2 in...
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Strategy and approach to the SharePoint trademark
Recently there have been concerns about the proper use, and associated use rights, of the 'SharePoint' name in websites, social media properties, blogs, etc - outside of how Microsoft and the...
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A Coder, a Programmer, a Hacker, a Developer, and a Computer Scientist walk...
A friend recently said: "I want to learn how to code. How and where do I start?" I want to learn how to code - Do I go to Ikea or grow my own tree?It's like woodworking. You can START by growing a...
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