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Living life with OneNote: Family edition
From storing WiFi passwords to tracking chores, OneNote helps the Devereux family keep in touch and on track. Read on to see how William and his family of seven stay in sync!...(read more)
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Setting mailbox permissions in Exchange Online
One of the top support issues that we see at Office 365 support has to do with mailbox permissions; namely, Send-as, Send-on-behalf, and Full Control. Nearly all of these are about setting those...
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Microsoft antimalware support for Windows XP
Microsoft has announced the Windows XP end of support date of April 8, 2014. After this date, Windows XP will no longer be a supported operating system. To help organizations complete their migrations,...
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Creating a C++ Project from a PDB file: PDB Project [[Version 2.0]]
We are thrilled to announce version 2.0 of the PDB Project extension on the Visual Studio Gallery . PDB Project, as the name suggests, takes the information contained in a .pdb file to create a C++...
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Separate accounts: share a PC without oversharing
We know you’re out there: people who might not sign in or out of your PC at all. The PC is just on, 24/7, and anyone who wants to use it sits down and does so. This is really common, especially in...
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Participating in the Power BI Demo Contest? The Entry Deadline is TODAY!
We’re thrilled to have received dozens of qualified entries in the Power BI Demo Contest. (You can check them out here.) If you’re still building yours, put on those finishing touches and submit it by...
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Publishing apps for Office and SharePoint to Windows Azure Websites
Windows Azure Websites are a great hosting platform for a variety of applications – and your app can be one of them. Azure Websites are easy to create and offer advanced management, scalability, and...
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Understanding the UserAccountControl Attribute in Active Directory
Dougga here. Not a password policy blog post, I am finally off of that issue. But I couldn’t help myself and included something about passwords in this post .Users and Computers have and attribute...
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An introduction to recommendations and popular items in SharePoint Server 2013
In SharePoint Server 2013, recommendations and popular items can be displayed because a feature called Usage analytics tracks and analyzes how visitors interact with your website. You can use the...
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Clean out your inbox with improved Sweep and Search
If you're like the average Outlook.com customer, you'll receive over 10,000 personal emails over the next 12 months, and 80% of that will be the newsletters, offers and updates that often clutter your...
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Real Talk about TechEd North America 2014
Most of North America may be recovering from a polar vortex, but the sunshine and warm weather of TechEd 2014 is already on the horizon.This year’s TechEd is going to be a veritable Super Bowl of...
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Tips and Tricks for Lync Integration (Nicole Haugen, Ravi Eda)
The Person Viewer and Person Picker controls were introduced in Visual Studio 2013 to support the Person data type which makes it easy to manage people-related data in your application. These controls...
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Support Tip: Reports fail to show up after installing a ConfigMgr 2012...
Hello Everyone, Prabhat Joshi here with another System Center 2012 Configuration Manager support tip for you, this time for reporting services. At times we have seen issues wherein after installing a...
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Cloud Load Testing and Application Insights Webinar – January 23rd
January 23rd I will team up with Manas Maheshwari to host a live Webinar on Visual Studio Online, Cloud Load Testing and of course Application Insights!The webinar will provide a short overview on the...
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6 new Red Stripe Deals on apps and games from the Windows Store + Disney Sale
Every week, you can catch Red Stripe Deals when you visit the Windows Store to save at least 50% off the original price of popular apps and games. We’ve now boosted the number of these Red Stripe Deals...
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Exception Boundaries
In modern C++, exceptions are the preferred method of runtime error reporting and handling. Yes, there are some cases where other forms of error reporting may be more appropriate—error codes, for...
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Windows Azure: Staging Publishing Support for Web Sites, Monitoring...
This morning we released another great set of enhancements to Windows Azure. Today’s new capabilities and announcements include:Web Sites: Staged Publishing Support and Always On SupportMonitoring...
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Announcing PCI DSS compliance and expanded ISO certification for Windows...
Today, we are excited to announce two significant milestones that enhance customers’ ability to build secure and compliant applications on Windows Azure. Additionally, we are also announcing the...
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Tips for using your own images to personalize your Windows 8.1 PC
I’m a very visual person, and I am all about personalizing my space. My cube at work is packed with plants and quirky décor; my house is overflowing with art; and in my free time I can often be found...
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Storage Allocation and Management for Memory-Optimized Tables
As described in storage management for in-memory data, the storage requirements and its management for memory optimized tables is very different compared to the disk-based tables. If you are migrating...
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