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Explore the Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5.1 in MSDN Magazine
The February 2014 edition of MSDN magazine includes a great overview of the .NET Framework 4.5.1, written by Gaye Oncol Kok, a Program Manager on the .NET team. The article is a great way to learn...
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Windows Azure HDInsight supports preview clusters of Hadoop 2.2
Following the recent launch of Windows Azure HDInsight last October, we are announcing that Windows Azure HDInsight now supports Hadoop 2.2 clusters in preview.Windows Azure HDInsight is Microsoft’s...
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Hill Climb Racing – A Monetization Success
Apps and games that are successful rarely get there by accident: developers carefully design and implement a monetization strategy and incorporate that strategy into every aspect of the app’s design....
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Per request lifetime management for UserManager class in ASP.NET Identity
IntroductionWe recently released the 2.0.0-beta1 version of ASP.NET Identity. Learn more here by visiting this link. This is an update to 2.0.0-alpha1 and adds the two-factor auth feature along with a...
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Hyper-V Leads the Virtualization Market in Latin America
Hyper-V is now ranked number one in Latin America for x86 virtualization, with 44.10% of the market share for Q3 2013, according to the IDC study “Latin America Server Virtualization Tracker Q3 2013.”...
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Success with Hybrid Cloud: By Scenario – Dev/Test
A Hybrid environment offers fertile ground for a lot of different scenarios, and in this post I’ll examine the value of the Hybrid Cloud in the dev/test phase of any project.One of the reasons that a...
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Power BI for Finance
Finance professionals have relied on Excel for years to come up with reports and data analyses that deliver the answers they are looking for. That is why we believe that the new Power BI features in...
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Using Windows Azure to Speed up Genome Research and Save Millions of Dollars
A year ago at Virginia Tech researchers needed 2 weeks to analyze just 1 genome. Today, they can analyze 100 genomes each day. Why is this important? Scientists can learn more about our DNA and uncover...
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Exchange Online Protection enhancements — Part 1
To give you enterprise-class reliability and help protect against spam and malware, we launched Exchange Online Protection (EOP) in 2013. During the past year we made improvements to EOP, including...
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Using Compare-VM on Compare-VM
I have been spending a lot of time this week looking at all the functionality that is available in the Compare-VM PowerShell cmdlet in Hyper-V. The core concept of Compare-VM is that it returns a...
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KB: "HostAgentFail (2912); HR: 0x80041001" error when any System Center...
Here’s some information on a new Knowledge Base article we published. The symptoms of the issue are as follows:Any Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) activity (such as a copy...
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Update on the Service Pack plans for SQL Server.
Dear C ustomers, We would like to share some updates on our planning for SQL Server Service Packs. We have seen the feedback on Connect (feedback IDs 814658, 814656, 814600) and the number of votes...
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Virtualizing Your Data Center with Hyper-V and System Center (MVA)
Virtualizing Your Data Center with Hyper-V and System CenterFree online event with live Q&A: http://aka.ms/virtDCWednesday, February 19th from 9am – 5pm PST If you're new to virtualization, or if...
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February 2014 .NET Updates
As part of our continued effort to bring greater transparency for our customers we are going to start posting here whenever we ship any security fixes for the .NET Framework, this is the first such...
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NEW! Office 365 Message Encryption Technical Webcast
Office 365 Message Encryption is a new email service that lets you send encrypted mail to anyone. An improved version of Exchange hosted encryption, Office 365 Message Encryption retains all the...
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What’s New in Windows Servicing: Part 1
My name is Aditya and I am a Senior Support Escalation Engineer for Microsoft on the Windows Core Team. I am writing today to shed some light on a the new changes that have been made to the Windows...
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What's New in Defrag for Windows Server 2012/2012R2
Hello everyone, I am Palash Acharyya, Support Escalation Engineer with the Microsoft Platforms Core team. In the past decade, we have come a long way from Windows Server 2003 to all the way to Windows...
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LIVE: Microsoft Virtual Federal Forum
For the first time, the 2014 Virtual Federal Forum, will be streamed LIVE from the Reagan Center in Washington, DC! This online digital experience will be completely hybrid, focused on Real Impact for...
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Network Isolation of Windows Modern Apps – How Apps work with Akamai Internet...
Good morning AskPerf! Mario Liu here from the Windows 8/8.1 Support Team. Today I’d like to discuss a Windows Modern App connectivity issue I’ve worked over the past few months. We have several...
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Automation-Exporting SMA Runbooks to TFS on a Schedule in Windows Azure Pack...
Hello readers / viewers. I have a topic that I think will be valuable for folks looking to ensure they are backing up their SMA Runbook investments to the fullest extent within WAP (Windows Azure...
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