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Hyper-V MP for Windows Server 2012 Now Available
OverviewThis management pack supports monitoring of Windows Server Hyper-V 2012 systems. This includes monitoring coverage of Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V host servers, including critical services and...
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Exchange 2010 Calendar Repair Assistant
Exchange 2010 had many new enhancements and improvements over prior versions of Exchange. One really cool feature was the introduction of the Calendar Repair Assistant (CRA). The CRA is a mailbox...
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Live@edu customers: New Year, New Service Capabilities with Office 365 for...
Audience: Live@edu; Office 365 for educationEditor’s Note: Please be sure that the contact information for your institution is up to date to be alerted to key Live@edu to Office 365 upgrade...
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Get Started Building SharePoint Apps in Minutes with LightSwitch
I’ve dabbled in SharePoint 2010 development in the past by using Visual Studio. In fact, I wrote a fair share of articles and samples about it. However I’ve been slacking when it comes to really...
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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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How Xbox can transform your datacenter
On January 15th, Microsoft announced several new products and services that continue to drive momentum against our Cloud OS vision. In an accompanying blog post, Microsoft vice president Michael Park...
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Expit Updates Their Project Connector and Event Dashboard
Our partner Expit has recently updated their Microsoft Project Client connector and Service Manager event dashboard (version 1.2). Both of these great solutions are available for FREE from their...
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8 Tips for Designing Windows Phone Apps
As part of the "App to the future" challenge (see details at the end of the post) we’ve conducted Lightning Design Review sessionsfor a few weeks, and one thing struck me as I was watching: review...
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Pie in the Sky (January 19, 2013)
The new year continues to provide a bounty of interesting/helpful content…enjoy!Mongo-edit: Ever wanted a gui editor for MongoDB? Of course you have!Optimizing WebSockets Bandwidth: This is an older...
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Jumping into C++
I was a professional developer for years, working initially with C in labs and an engineering firm before moving on to other languages and stints as an enterprise developer and consultant. Other...
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App roundup: The five best Windows Store apps, according to a 13-year-old girl
Hi! David S here. I usually write things for the Windows web site. The headlines on the Windows home page, for example. "Download the new Internet Explorer"—yes, that was me. Anyway, I'm thrilled to be...
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Cloud Innovators–Tom Shinder and Yuri Diogenes on TechNet Radio
Have you been hearing a lot about the cloud but you’re not sure what it’s about? Does this cloud stuff sound like marketing and hype to you? Are there any real, substantive differences between cloud...
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3 Windows Phone apps for hockey fans
Three long months after their lockout began last October, National Hockey League players are finally hitting ice Saturday to start the 2012-2013 season. Here are the Windows Phone apps every fan needs...
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How does New-SmbShare know whether the new share should be standalone,...
I got a question the other day about one of the scripts I published as part of a step-by-step for Hyper-V over SMB, Here's the relevant line from that script:New-SmbShare -Name VMS3 -Path...
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TechEd 2013–Architecture Track (ARC)–What Do You Want to See?
Can you believe it? There are only 19 weeks left until TechEd North America and 21 weeks left to TechEd Europe! TechEd is always a great experience. A real “shot I the arm” in the middle of the year...
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How to use the new SMB 3.0 WMI classes in Windows Server 2012 and Windows 8...
If you're an IT Administrator, you're likely to use the new SMB PowerShell cmdlets to manage your SMB 3.0 file shares. You can find details about those at...
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Unlocking Windows 8 "God Mode" - A Useful Trick but also Mysterious Nonsense
Everyone likes the idea of a cheat mode, or "God Mode." Many years ago - I think around 1993 - Doom introduced the idea of switching a player into God Mode within the game by typing IDDQA. You'd then...
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Download the new Microsoft Visio Viewer
In case you missed the announcement, the Visio team has announced the availability of the Microsoft Visio Viewer on their blog.The Microsoft Visio Viewer is a free download that lets your users view...
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And the winning Cam Newton ad is…
Last week we asked you to vote on your favorite alternate Cam Newton catchphrase. You tweeted out hundreds of votes for your favorites and for awhile, things were pretty close. While “Peanut Butter,...
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Is accessing files via a loopback share the same as using a local path?
Question from a user (paraphrased): When we access a local file via loopback UNC path, is this the same as accessing via the local path? I mean, is "C:\myfolder\a.txt" equal to...
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