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Have You Voted for Your Favorite Power BI Demo?
Indulge in some harmless video-binging while being awed by the talent in this community of data buffs. The voting period for the Power BI Demo Contest ends soon. So get to it! Watch as many demos as...
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Automation–Monitoring and Notifying in Windows Azure Pack with SMA
Hey Readers! This post will introduce you to a couple of useful SMA Runbooks to add to your “SMA Utility Belt”. First things first – go here to read about SMA if you are unfamiliar with the...
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In-Memory OLTP Index Troubleshooting, Part II
With the In-Memory OLTP feature in SQL Server 2014 we introduce two new types of indexes for memory-optimized tables: the memory-optimized NONCLUSTERED indexes, and the memory-optimized HASH...
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The Works with Office 365 – Identity program now streamlined
Paul Andrew is technical product manager for Identity Management on the Office 365 team.The Works with Office 365 – Identity program has been streamlined. It’s now more predictable and we’ve reduced...
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Help increase downloads with these quick tips for promoting your app
Developing a great app and publishing it is a big accomplishment, no doubt. But it’s not enough to just get your app into the Windows Phone Store and call it a day. If you want users to be aware of...
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DirectX 11.2 Tiled Resources Enables Optimized PC Gaming Experiences
In this blog post, Matt Sandy from the Direct3D team explains how new PC games for Windows 8.1 will get better and more efficiently utilize GPU resources because of a new feature in DirectX 11.2 called...
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MEC Check: Are You Registered?
Just 8 ½ weeks until the Microsoft Exchange Conference 2014 kicks off in Austin, Texas!We’re putting the finishing touches on sessions, speakers, content, parties, and all of those wonderful and quirky...
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Shrinking a VHDX on a Running Virtual Machine
This week I have been talking about how to resize a VHDX on a virtual machine that is currently running. It is easy to think that you can only increase a VHDX of a running virtual machine, but you can...
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Marvel Run Jump Smash! now available in the Windows Store
As a fan of Marvel and Marvel games, I’m excited about Marvel Run Jump Smash! that is now available in the Windows Store for $1.49 (U.S.). You play as superhero characters like Iron Man, the Incredible...
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Issues that are fixed in System Center 2012 Data Protection Manager SP1...
System Center 2012 Data Protection Manager Service Pack 1 Update Rollup 5 (UR5) is now available. This update includes the following:Issue 1: Lots of concurrent threads or calls to Microsoft SQL Server...
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Super Bowl Search Trends with Power BI
One of our Power BI rockstars, Shish Shridhar (blog and YouTube channel), created some great data visualizations for search terms around the Super Bowl.Shish used different tools such as the Bing Ads...
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Microsoft.Diagnostics.Tracing.EventSource is now stable
We are announcing the RTM of the EventSource NuGet package, which enables fast app tracing to the Windows Event Log, including in production. This post was written by Cosmin Radu, a software developer...
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Now Available: System Center 2012 Operations Manager SP1 Update Rollup 5
System Center 2012 Operations Manager Service Pack 1 Update Rollup 5 (UR5) is now available. This update includes the following:Operations ManagerIssue 1: An error occurs when you run the p_DataPurging...
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Windows Azure Storage Client Library for C++
The Windows Azure Storage team has announced the availability of a new Windows Azure Storage Client Library for C++. This is a preview release and they are looking for your feedback. This release...
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Following the Numbers with HRM
Thursdays are one of my favorite days of the week. Every Thursday, all of the leaders responsible for Windows Server, System Center, and Windows Intune get together to review and discuss the status of...
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Preview Release of iOS and Android SDK now available!
Howdy folks, Those of you who follow this blog will remember Brandon Werner from previous posts. Brandon is a PM in the AD team and leads our effort to deliver developer libraries for non-Microsoft...
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Beats Music app for Windows Phone arrives in the US
Looking for a new source for tunes? The official Beats Music app just arrived for Windows Phone 8, and is worth a listen. Download it nowThe app, for now available only in the United States, includes a...
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Announcing preview of Dynamic Data provider and EntityDataSource control for...
Today, we are pleased to announce an update to ASP.NET DynamicData and EntityDataSource control, so that they work with Entity Framework 6.What’s in this preview- DynamicData provider for Entity...
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SSDT and Visual Studio versions
Hello All, there has been some questions around our support for various Visual Studio versions and the update mechanism for them. I hope this will help clarify some of the questions:Visual Studio...
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Microsoft to Join the Big Data Conversation as an Elite Sponsor at Strata,...
On February 11-13, Microsoft will join 2,700 of the world’s leading big data scientists, CIOs and executives at the Strata conference in Santa Clara, CA. For some, Microsoft does not come immediately...
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