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Putting it all Together with Microsoft People-centric IT
For the past couple of months we’ve been asking you for your feedback on your top-of-mind concerns around the Consumerization of IT and challenges arising from the trend towards Bring-Your-Own-Device....
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Customers have been asking us about the future of InfoPath and SharePoint forms, and today we’re ready to share some information on the next generation of Office forms.Industry trends and feedback from...
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Released: Management Pack for SQL Server Analysis Services 2008 and 2012
This week, we released Management Packs for SQL Server 2008 and 2012 Analysis Services. The corresponding downloads are available at: System Center Management Pack for SQL Server 2012 Analysis...
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Resizing the boot drive of a virtual machine
You can only resize the virtual hard disk of a running virtual machine if:It is a .VHDX fileIt is connected to a SCSI controllerThese restrictions mean that people often ask me if you can resize the...
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The Road to the Big Game with Power Map
Following up on our NFC Championship game post 2 weeks ago for the Seahawks, we decided to go a little broader this time and create these two "Road to the Big Game" Power Map tours to show how the...
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Pie in the Sky (January 31st, 2014)
This is a client & mobile heavy week, though there's some cloud, Node, PHP, and Ruby goodness in there.CloudMS Open Tech releases open source Microsoft cloud server chassis manager software: This...
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Success with Hybrid Cloud: Benefits for the Oil & Gas Industry
In this post I’m going to look at how enterprises in the Oil & Gas industry are successfully operating Hybrid Clouds. As a quick refresher on this series, my goal with each of these posts has been...
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Let’s go Hawks!
Seahawks fever has hit an all-time high in Seattle today, and right now there is hardly a person walking the halls of Microsoft that is not dressed in Seahawks green and blue – my included! I have to...
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Free Webinar Scaled Agile Framework and Microsoft Visual Studio ALM Feb 4...
Next Tuesday Barry Paquet Agile Coach and certified SAFe Program Consultant (PSC) from InCycle Software will give an introduction to the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) and discuss how he has been...
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Seahawks or Broncos? Either way, you’ll want these Windows Phone apps for The...
The game of games is this Sunday, and our in-house app experts have put togetherThe Big Game Collection to make sure you’re prepared—from the drinks and snacks to the scores and stats. Check it...
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Here's 10 things I did before I wrote this blog post title. What happened...
What a crap title, eh? Just the worst. But this kind of linkbait garbage is rampant on our internet - that's yours and my internet, people - and we're promoting their chicanery by spreading their...
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Want to secure credentials in Windows PowerShell Desired State Configuration?
As you start using Windows PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC), you might need to specify credentials for resources. In a previous post we showed you how to define a resource that has a...
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How to modify the UpgradeTemplate.xaml to enable releasing from a build
Release Management provides the option to trigger a release from a build. But to use this feature, some additional logic has to be added to the default build process template. You can refer to my...
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How Microsoft celebrates the Seahawks
What happens when the world’s biggest software company meets the world’s most famous football game?On Friday afternoon, folks in Microsoft’s Operating Systems Group—which includes Windows, Windows...
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Watch our ‘Empowering’ ad from tonight’s Big Game
In tonight’s Big Game, we aired a one-minute ad that celebrates what technology can do narrated by Steve Gleason, former NFL player and post-Katrina hero of the New Orleans Saints. Steve is now living...
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Becoming an Xperf Xpert Part 7: Slow Profile Load and Our Very First Stalk Walk
Hi my name is Randolph Reyes (Randy) with my first blog contribution! I am Premier Field Engineer specializing in Active Directory and Windows Desktop. Today I will like to share a recent trace taken...
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Hyper-V Replica debugging: Why are very large log files generated?
Quite a few customers have reached out to us with this question, and you can even see a few posts around this on the TechNet Forums. The query comes in various forms:“My log file size was in the MBs...
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Savision Announces Cloud Reporter for System Center
New solution brings additional proactive capacity planning to Microsoft environments, helping reduce unplanned downtime and hardware expenditures. Savision, a leader in enterprise management solutions...
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How to add a Pass-through disk to a Highly Available Virtual Machine running...
I was recently asked how to add a Pass-through disk to a Highly Available VM running on a Windows Server 2012 R2 Failover Cluster. I tested the steps I was accustomed to for Windows Server 2008 and...
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Access apps General Availability for Office 365 customers
Matt Evans is a writer on the Access team.If you test out Access apps, but are waiting to use them in a production environment, you can now move full speed ahead.What does general availability mean?...
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