Application Insights Visual Studio Add-in preview
In the fall, we introduced a preview of a new VS Online service called “Application Insights” that enables you to instrument your app to ensure that it is available, performing and successful. It...
View ArticleNEW! Office 365 Support Webcast: Service Management, Troubleshooting Exchange...
To sign up for this support webcast please download and save the attached calendar invite below where you will find the Webcast Meeting information. Office 365 Support Webcasts are a critical program...
View ArticleTriggering Prefetch for Windows Store Apps in Visual Studio 2013 Update 2
Windows 8.1 introduced a method for Windows Store App developers to pre-register content with the Windows API to cache resources to be used by your apps before your app has been launched. This was to...
View Article.NET Memory Analysis: Object Inspection
In Visual Studio 2013, we introduced a way to analyze .NET Memory with Visual Studio. Now in the Update 2, we’ve added a new feature to inspect values of objects and instances to improve your...
View ArticleAutomation–System Center Orchestrator Service Configuration Dependencies for...
Hey Readers! I have somewhat of an academic post for you all today to help document a topic that has come up from time to time around System Center 2012 Orchestrator and service dependencies....
View ArticleAn SMB Checklist 60 Days until XP EOS
It’s been fantastic to talk with small and medium-sized business owners over the last few months who are excited about the ways that Windows 8.1 Pro can both help their business and make their...
View ArticleMAT4MOVE - MAT for Vision Double-Take MOVE Announced!
Hello migration friends! I just wanted to publish a quick congratulations to Vision Double-Take for publishing the blog post below that includes an implementation of MAT for MOVE. Thanks to the...
View ArticleDifferential Database Backup with Memory-Optimized Tables
This blog describes how differential database backup is taken on database with one or more memory-optimized tables. For full database backups, please refer to Database Backup with Memory-Optimized...
View ArticleSharing and Discovering Queries Using Power Query and Power BI
In conjunction with Power BI for Office 365, Power Query offers a set of capabilities for sharing and discovering queries within your organization. In this blog post, we will look into the specific...
View ArticleOffice 365 news round-Up
“Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.” That was the opinion of Benjamin Franklin, who was not only an early American statesman...
View ArticleExchange ActiveSync Guided Walkthrough
Many users rely on their smartphones and other mobile devices to access their email and calendar using Exchange ActiveSync (EAS). Any issues with mobile device access and EAS are noticed and reported...
View ArticleWhy is the wrong time displayed on my virtual machine?
Here is the scenario:You have a bunch of server virtual machines that are merrily running somewhere in your environment. Normally you do not interact with them, but once in a while you need to login...
View ArticleAdvanced Developers Conference 2014
The Advanced Developers Conference 2014 takes place April 29-30 in Munich. This years sessions will be about modern device apps, debugging, drivers, graphics,cloud services and much more. The...
View ArticleVote for the SharePoint Conference App Awards – People’s Choice!
We asked for innovative and high-quality apps for the Office Store, and the response was overwhelming, with over 200 new or updated apps! If you are registered to attend SPC14, now is the time to cast...
View ArticleNeed more DSC Resources? Announcing DSC Resource Kit Wave 2
Good news everyone! Starting today, you can use Windows PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC) to configure Active Directory and SQL Server (including High Availability Groups). We are pleased to...
View ArticleHyper-V Replica & Proxy Servers on primary site
I was tinkering around with my lab setup which consists of a domain, proxy server, primary and replica servers. There are some gotchas when it comes to Hyper-V Replica and proxy servers and I realized...
View ArticleService Management Automation: Integration with Orchestrator
Service Management Automation (SMA) is a capability in Windows Azure Pack and Orchestrator 2012 R2. Though SMA and Orchestrator are both built for IT process automation, orchestration, and integration,...
View ArticleVisual Studio Online Update – Feb 10
Yesterday, we completed our sprint 60 deployment. With it comes two new features: Exporting test plans as HTML documents and a permission to control who can create new work item tags. You can read...
View ArticleAnnouncing the General Availability of Power BI for Office 365
Today, Microsoft announced the general availability of Power BI for Office 365, a cloud-based business intelligence service that gives people a powerful new way to work with data in the tools they use...
View ArticlePower BI for Office 365 now available to do more with business insights in Excel
Today we’re happy to announce that we’re making Power BI for Office 365 generally available to a billion Office users. Since announcing and previewing Power BI for Office 365, we’ve been continually...
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