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Give Us an Earful: Visual C++ Build Survey
Need a quick 10 minute break from developing your latest Visual C++ masterpiece? Want to give us feedback about your project build experience?Yes? Then we have a link for you:...
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Background – on quirks and compatibilityThe .NET Framework (including ASP.NET) strives to maintain near-100% compatibility when an existing framework is updated on a machine. We try to ensure as much...
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Team Foundation Service Update – Nov 19th
Sprint 39 is now done and deployed. As always, you can see the latest on the service on the service release notes: http://tfs.visualstudio.com/en-us/home/news/Sprint 39 was another modest release. We...
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Join Tuesday’s webinar: The Holiday Show
The holidays are right around the corner, and Office.com can help with those pesky, last-minute items. See how to download and personalize our free templates for party invites, menus, and gift tags....
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New tutorials for SQL Server in Windows Azure Virtual Machines
We've just released three new tutorials that will help you learn how to use specific features of SQL Server in Windows Azure Virtual Machines:Tutorial 1: Connect to SQL Server in the same cloud...
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A New API for LightSwitch Server Interaction: The ServerApplicationContext...
Although the team has focused on building the LightSwitch HTML client and SharePoint 2013 applications recently, supporting existing scenarios remains a top priority. We’ve tried to balance our new...
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KB: AVIcode or APM Advisor Report does not display correctly
This Knowledge Base article talks about an issue where the AVIcode or APM Advisor Report does not display correctly:SymptomsConsider the following scenarios: Scenario 1: You Install System Center...
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What’s new with Microsoft Remote Connectivity Analyzer? A lot!
Have you ever gotten a call from someone you know whose Outlook client is having trouble connecting to their email server? Don’t you just wish you had a tool that you could send to them that would...
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Windows Server 2012 File Server Tip: Use PowerShell to find the free space on...
A while back, I showed how to use PowerShell V2 and our old SMB WMIv1 object to explain how to find the free space behind a file share (essentially the free space for the volume that contains the file...
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KB: SQL 2012 AlwaysOn protection in Data Protection Manager fails with...
This Knowledge Base article talks about an issue where attempting to protect a SQL Server AlwaysOn AG using DPM 2012 fails with error 0x80990F75:SymptomsWhen attempting to protect a SQL Server AlwaysOn...
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Windows Server 2012 File Server Tip: New per-share SMB client performance...
Windows Server 2012 and Windows 8 include a new set of performance counters that can greatly help understand the performance of the SMB file protocol. These include new counters on both the server side...
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KB: Attempting to access the Operations Manager Web Console fails and Event...
This Knowledge Base article talks about an issue where you are unable to access the Operations Manager 2007 Web Console and Event 33857 is recorded in the Operations Manager event log:SymptomsConsider...
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F# Community Group of the Week: the San Francisco Bay Area F# Meetup Group
Our F# community group of the week is The San Francisco Bay Area F# Meetup Group.I had the pleasure to meet some of the people in the group last week, at their last meetup held at Microsoft Research in...
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KB: Host refresh in Virtual Machine Manager generates MSiSCSI Event ID 113...
This Knowledge Base article talks about an issue where doing a host refresh in VMM generates MSiSCSI Event ID 113 every 30 minutes:SymptomsOn a Hyper-V host that is managed by System Center Virtual...
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Support Tip: Optimized ILR feature of DPM 2012 for SharePoint recovery fails...
An attempt to use the new Optimized Item Level Recovery (ILR) feature of System Center 2012 Data Protection Manager (DPM) for SharePoint recovery with a clustered SQL server as the instance specified...
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5 tips to getting your apps certified quickly
From the beginning, we designed the Windows Store to be a partnership between developers and Microsoft. We’re committed to ensuring that our certification requirements and app submission processes are...
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Upgrade: Frequent questions from SharePoint Conference 2012
It was great talking with so many of you at the SharePoint Conference last week. From one on one discussions to the big crush at Ask the Experts, we had several questions come up multiple times. Here...
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WANT MY DB_NAMEs BACK! - How to get database names for federation members...
Well, I get the question on how do I get the database names for my members frequently from users. I know this is harder than it should be but hiding this information helps future proof certain...
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Issue with System Center 2012 Update Rollup 3 (UR3) Memory Leak Fix for SCSM
In System Center 2012 Update Rollup 3, we had indicated that the console memory issues that had been reported were fixed. Unfortunately, there was a mix up in some of the binaries that were packaged...
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HOTFIX: Software updates are displayed as invalid in the Administrator...
If you are a Configuration Manager 2007 customer, we recognize you might have concerns about the impact of recent changes to Microsoft Update. These changes were introduced by either the application of...
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