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Announcing Visual Studio 2012 Update 2 CTP
We are excited to announce the availability of the CTP of Visual Studio 2012 Update 2, as it bring forwards a number of improvements for the XAML developer. The following are some of the key...
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KB: Triggered Runbook never completes in System Center 2012 Orchestrator
We just published a new KB article for System Center 2012 Orchestrator describing an issue where a triggered Runbook never finishes and the policy module log shows the process as terminated. This can...
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Git support for Visual Studio - Git, TFS, and VS put into Context
Dogs and cats, living together...mass hysteria. This classic Ghostbusters quote is used by many geek-types (myself included) whenever something crazy or unexplained happens. Today Brian Harry from...
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Syncing Google services with Windows Phone
You may have seen a recent announcement from Google regarding changes to the Google Sync service used to connect devices to Google services (Google Sync utilizes the Exchange ActiveSync, or EAS,...
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EF Power Tools Beta 3 Available
The Entity Framework Power Tools provide additional design-time tools in Visual Studio to help you develop using the Entity Framework. Beta 3 of the Power Tools is now available. Where do I get it?The...
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Volume activation of Office 2013 –frequently asked questions
If you’ve seen the TechNet article FAQ:Volume activation of Office 2010, you know that it contains many frequently asked questions about Office 2010 volume activation, including Key Management Services...
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Support Tip: VMM 2008 R2 setup may crash with certain language settings
Hi everyone, Mark Stanfill here with a quick heads-up on a VMM setup issue I ran into the other day. I was talking with a customer who was trying to install System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008...
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Video: Skulls of the Shogun arrives for Windows Phone, PC, and Xbox
In case you haven’t heard, Microsoft broke new gaming ground today, officially launching the first title specifically designed to be played across a Windows Phone, Windows 8 PC, Surface, and Xbox 360....
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IE10 Automatic Update Blocker Toolkit Available for Windows 7
Business and organizations that want to manage their own update schedule can use the IE10 Automatic Update Blocker Toolkit to disable automatic delivery of Internet Explorer 10. This Blocker...
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Announcement: Configuration Manager Documentation Library Update for January...
The Documentation Library for System Center 2012 Configuration Manager has been updated on the web and the latest content has Updated: January 1, 2013 at the top of the topic. This month’s publication...
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Markdown in Discussions
We now support markdown in our discussion editor! If you are new to markdown, you can learn more about it from our previous blog post on the topic. A couple other notable changes are:Editing and...
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Using Visual Studio Git with CodePlex
Brian Harry made two major announcements today at the ALM Summit.Visual Studio will support GitTeam Foundation Server will host Git repositories.When we added Git to CodePlex back in March of last year...
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Updating Windows Azure Cloud Service To .NET 4.5 and Windows Server 2012
Editor's Note: This post comes from Avilay Parekh, Windows Azure Senior Program Manager.Say you have a Windows Azure Cloud Service built with the June 2012 SDK, using .NET 4.0, and OS family 1 or 2....
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Windows Phone Unit Tests in Visual Studio 2012 Update 2
Unit Testing is an important part of the application development life cycle for any platform. Visual Studio users no longer need to depend on 3rd party frameworks for unit tests on Windows Phone. The...
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Introducing modern.IE – Testing sites for Internet Explorer made easier
Today we are introducing modern.IE, a free set of tools and resources designed to make it easier for developers to ensure their sites work beautifully across Internet Explorer as well as other modern...
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Why sign in? Your files are always waiting for you with Office 365
You've read about Office 365 Home Premium and the Cloud and how Office and SkyDrive are better together. If you haven't seen it, check out the Welcome to Office video below for a preview of how Office...
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Secure your environment with SCM 3.0!
The Security Compliance Manager (SCM) is a free tool from the Microsoft Solution Accelerators team that enables you to quickly configure and manage the computers in your environment and your private...
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Cross Browser Debugging integrated into Visual Studio with BrowserStack
TL;DR - To Long Didn't Read VersionBrowserStack Integrated into Visual StudioFrom a debug session inside Visual Studio 2012 today, click the dropdown next to your Debug Button, the click on "More...
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Deployment: Windows Firewall and Group Policy
General Deployment information Because I support the Windows Firewall I often get asked for guidance on deploying it. David Bishop wrote a nice white paper on deploying the Windows Firewall so I won’t...
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How to get your app promoted in the Windows Phone Store
Hi! I’m Kami LeMonds, merchandising manager for the Windows Phone Store. My team has the awesome job of selecting the apps we promote every day in the Windows Phone Stores across the globe. Many of you...
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