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Azure Vault Storage in HDInsight: A Robust and Low Cost Storage Solution
HDInsight is trying to provide the best of two worlds in how it manages its data.Azure Vault Storage (ASV) and the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS)implemented by HDInsight on Azure are distinct...
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Tech Tuesday Live Twitter Chat with Office #Winchat
Office has some exciting news today! You may have seen some of it via their hashtag #Timeto365 but we are going to dive in a little bit deeper during today’s Tech Tuesday Live Twitter Chat. Today,...
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Support Tip: ConfigMgr clients fail to register and generate 0x80040231...
Hi everyone, Arvind Kr. Rana here with another Configuration Manager support tip for you. I’ve run across this a couple times and thought it would be worth mentioning here in case you happen to run...
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This month’s Windows Phone Photo Challenge: Love
The onset of February, plus the arrival of a special Valentine’s Day-themed Lumia, may turn one’s thoughts to love. Thus, this month, we’re asking you to submit a photograph that somehow captures the...
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KB: Runbooks and Folders in the Orchestrator Console are available to users...
We just published a new KB article about an issue where under certain circumstances, users accounts may be able to see content that they should not have access to based on permissions defined within...
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My Server Windows App for Windows Server 2012 Essentials
Hi, my name is Clinton Ho, lead program manager on the Windows Server Essentials team. I’m proud to announce the availability of the My Server Windows app, available as a free download in the Windows...
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Exploratory Tests Auto Created from Product Backlog Item Acceptance Criteria
I was chatting w/ Anna Russo at the ALM Summit and just found she has done another GREAT tool for Testers - Auto Create Test Cases from PBI Acceptance Criteria Here is the excerpt from her Visual...
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Announcement: Service Pack 1 Media Updates
The installation files for System Center 2012 Configuration Manager Service Pack 1 (SP1) and the associated Endpoint Protection for Linux OS and Macintosh OS were refreshed on January 25, 2013. The SP1...
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Plex is the media center software ecosystem I've been waiting for
I've blogged about my Synology 1511+ NAS before and how I have added a few things to it like CrashPlan Cloud Backup and even discussed it on my podcast. When you have a headless server in your home,...
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Steve Ballmer announces the new Office 365 Home Premium
Read Steve Ballmer's blog post about the release of the new Office 365 Home Premium and what it means for the company and for you. "This is a fundamental shift in our business that began several years...
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Getting started with ASP.NET WebAPI OData in 3 simple steps
With the upcoming ASP.NET 2012.2 release, we’ll be adding support for OData to WebAPI. In this blog post, I’ll go over the three simple steps you’ll need to go through to get your first OData service...
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More on Symbol Improvements in VS2012 Update 1
Hi, my name is Dmitri Leonov and I am an engineer on the VS debugger team. A couple of months ago with the Visual Studio 2012 Update 1, we shipped debugger improvements some of which were related to...
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Startup Accelerator for Windows Azure: Demo Day
Earlier this month, the 10 startups in our Fall 2012 Accelerator class got the chance to pitch to a room full of investors, mentors and technology enthusiasts. Over three hundred people joined us on...
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No Excuses! You Need a Lab for Active Directory 2012.
Many posts that can be found on the new features of directory services on Windows 2012 both from Microsoft and from others. However, you need to get your hands on the features to learn them.Like other...
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CTP for Visual Studio Update 2 now available
As I have mentioned, the Visual Studio Updates are a new mechanism we are using to provide ongoing value throughout the year to our Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server customers. These updates...
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Getting Started with Git in Visual Studio and Team Foundation Service
Getting Started with Git in Visual Studio and Team Foundation ServiceBy Matthew Mitrik (MS), Andy Lewis, and Martin WoodwardToday we announced the availability of Git for Visual Studio and Team...
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Announcing Visual Studio 2012 Update 2 (VS2012.2)
Today we released the first Community Technology Preview (CTP) of Visual Studio 2012 Update 2 (VS2012.2). It’s exciting to see the next update of VS working it’s way to completion. There’s going to...
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Skulls of the Shogun now available in the Windows Store
I have been hearing a lot about this new game called Skulls of the Shogun from 17-BIT. Skulls of the Shogun is a turn-based strategy game that “was thrown in a blender with classic 80's and 90's arcade...
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Git init VS
Today at the ALM Summit I made a bunch of announcements. A couple of them warrant a bit of extra comment Today, I made 2 announcements involving TFS, VS and Git.Team Foundation Server will host Git...
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Improving the Modern Application Lifecycle
This week in Redmond, Microsoft is hosting the 3rd annual ALM Summit, a gathering of Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) practitioners interested in learning more about the craft and sharing their...
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