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TechNet Radio series covers Windows Server 2012 File Server and SMB 3.0...
I have been working with Bob Hunt at the TechNet Radio team to provide a series of webcasts with information about SMB 3.0 and the File Server role in Windows Server 2012.These are fairly informal...
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App submission tips for Windows Phone 7 and Windows Phone 8
If you currently have a Windows Phone 7.x app that you’re thinking about updating to take advantage of Windows Phone 8 functionality, you have some decisions to make about support for your existing...
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Making the most of fear and deception – rogue v ransomware (part 2)
This is the second of a two-part post, and continues from "Making the most of fear and deception – rogue v ransomware (part 1)".Ransomware’s approach is aggressive. It uses fear to motivate an affected...
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Announcing the Windows Startup Challenge
Ted Dworkin, Partner Program Manager for the Store, authored this post.In September, we partnered with Startup Weekend to give entrepreneurs technical mentorship, design guidance, and other valuable...
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After the Storm - ESRI Maps Out the Future in the Cloud
A storm hits. Trees down power lines, water levels rise. Emergency teams scramble to figure out the damage, who’s vulnerable? First responders think visually so answering these questions often starts...
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Show Off Your SQL Server Spirit With Community Badges
Being part of the SQL Server community is a fantastic thing! Not only do you have the technical support of a global community, but you also have the strength the SQL Server community behind you offline...
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Immutable Collections is on Channel 9
Recently we were interviewed by Erik Meijer for Channel 9. We talked about our preview of immutable collections and answered several questions that were being asked on the Channel 9 post about...
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List of System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager Service Pack 1 KBs
We’ve posted a few KB articles for System Center 2012 SP1 and since they were timed to go out with the release of the SP1 bits I didn’t want to dedicate a separate post for each. Instead I’ve listed...
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Patience is a virtue with the System Center 2012 Operations Manager SP1...
Now that we have publically released System Center 2012 Service Pack 1, you need to take care when applying this to your Operations Manager servers. As part of the Service Pack installation we make...
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When disaster strikes, Microsoft’s HelpBridge app is ready
When Hurricane Sandy mowed over the East Coast last year and the first devastating images appeared, two thoughts crossed my mind: Are the people I know there OK? and How can I help? I know I wasn’t...
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Most Popular LightSwitch Team Blog Posts of 2012
I was doing some content analysis this morning for this blog and the LightSwitch team blog and I thought it would be fun to list off the most viewed LightSwitch team articles of 2012. Then I thought it...
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System Center 2012 SP1 now Available
Yesterday we announced the general availability of System Center 2012 SP1 – which is great news for everyone who wants to build cloud solutions on Windows Server 2012. Here are a bunch of links that...
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Deal alert: Two hit Disney games for Windows Phone go free. Tomorrow only.
Heads up: Where’s My Water and Where’s My Perry, Disney’s megahit games for Windows Phone 8, are going to be available for free on Thursday, Jan. 17. It’s a special one day only promotion, so make a...
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Key lessons learned from the latest test results
AV-Test just published the results of their most recent antimalware vendor testing, and they didn't grant Microsoft Security Essentials and Microsoft Forefront Endpoint Protection their "AV-Test...
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Details of the December 28th, 2012 Windows Azure Storage Disruption in US South
IntroductionOn December 28th, 2012 there was a service interruption that affected 1.8% of the Windows Azure Storage accounts. The affected storage accounts were in one storage stamp (cluster) in the...
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Creating Membership and Hosting Objects/Relationships Using...
One of our MVPs brought up an interesting scenario this morning. He tried to create a PowerShell script using SMLets to add a new manual activity to an existing parallel activity. This was his script:...
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Cross-Post: Microsoft helps Costa Coffee brew sales data solution
Editor's Note: This is a cross post from the STB News Bytes Blog.Last week, Microsoft announced an exciting (and tasty) example of its work in intelligent systems, business analytics and cloud...
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Optimizing Battery Consumption of Windows Phone Applications
This blog post was authored by Rahul Bagaria, a program manager on the Windows Phone developer tools team.- JonathanSmartphones have become an integral part of our lives, and we increasingly rely on...
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Release Notes 1/17/2013
The CodePlex team has been working hard to improve our TFS cluster, and it is now running much faster! The improvements will increase reliability and performance of source browsing, issue tracking,...
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Troubleshooting methodology content for SharePoint environments with the new...
The Claims authentication does not validate user troubleshooting topic is now available. I see troubleshooting content as falling into two categories: break-fix and troubleshooting methodology....
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