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Friday Miscellany #5
Welcome to another Friday Miscellany, a collection of interesting links from across the internet curated from social media, conversations and curiosity.From isocpp.org, B-Tree containers, a C++...
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SharePoint load testing made easier with Visual Studio 2012 Update
A lot of people ask me what was my favorite part of living in Australia for 7 years. Most assume it was something like the warm water, the amazing red wines, the beautiful beaches or the unspoiled...
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Team Foundation Server on Azure IaaS
I’ve been getting a few questions lately about whether or not we support TFS on Azure IaaS. The truth is that a number of us have set up and used it on IaaS but we have never really formally tested...
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Improvements in Windows Store Unit Tests: Test Exceptions in Async Lamba...
Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 includes support for unit testing managed Windows Store apps and includes unit test library templates for Visual C#, Visual Basic and Visual C++. For more information about...
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Updated Links on Windows Server 2012 File Server and SMB 3.0
In this post, I'm providing a reference to the most relevant content related to Windows Server 2012 that is related to the File Server, the SMB 3.0 features and its associated scenarios like Hyper-V...
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David Warren - the inventor of the Black Box
I try not to use my blog for too many personal things but I couldn't resist. A good friend of mine, who also happens to be one of our Visual Studio ALM MVPs, sent me an email. He told me about a...
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Hyper-V over SMB – Performance considerations
1. Introduction If you follow this blog, you probably already had a chance to review the “Hyper-V over SMB” overview talk that I delivered at TechEd 2012 and other conferences. Now I am working on a...
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Visual Studio Update 2 Team Foundation Server feature -Work Item Tagging
Unfortunately we don’t have a level above MVP is for recognizing community contributions; if we did Tarun would clearly have achieved that award too. Thanks for the post...
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Active Directory-Based Activation vs. Key Management Services
KMS ActivationI still receive TONS of questions on KMS even though it has been around for quite some time now. It’s fairly easy to ramp up on. I can generally bring an admin up to speed in under an...
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Join us for Tuesday’s webinar: Create business cards quickly in Word & Publisher
Need business cards right this minute? Whether you're forming a new start-up business or just need something in a pinch, Office has built-in business card templates to help. In this week's webinar,...
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Windows Azure Community News Roundup (Edition #53)
Editor's Note: This post comes from Mark Brown, Windows Azure Community Manager.Welcome to the newest edition of our weekly roundup of the latest community-driven news, content and conversations about...
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What’s different about the Windows Phone Store in China
Everyone here is really excited that Windows Phone 8 is becoming more widely available in China. We worked hard to tailor both the phone and the Windows Phone Store for new customers there, and today I...
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Windows Phone 8: First Major Smartphone OS to Support Alipay in China
I wanted to call to your attention that Windows Phone 8 sales are beginning to ramp up in China and describe the huge reach and monetization opportunity this represents to the Windows Phone developer...
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Fixing non-compliant virtual switches in System Center 2012 Virtual Machine...
Hi Everyone, this is Alvin Morales, Senior Support Escalation Engineer for System Center and I wanted to take a minute to talk about a potential issue with virtual switches in System Center 2012...
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In the Community: Meet Nish Sivakumar
In the Community is a regular series spotlighting members of the C++ / developer community. This week, meet Nish, a C++ MVP, author and long-time developer. Nish has been writing code since 1990 when...
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KB: Orchestrator Runbooks, Folders and/or Statistics are not displayed or...
We just published a KB article about an issue where new Orchestrator Runbooks and/or folders that have been created using the Runbook Designer are not displayed even though the user has the appropriate...
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Hanselman's Newsletter of Wonderful Things: January 7th, 2013
I have a "whenever I get around to doing it" Newsletter of Wonderful Things. Why a newsletter? I dunno. It seems more personal somehow. Fight me.Still, it's one more site to check and it's a hassle for...
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Download our free Office 2013 Quick Start Guides
Thinking about making the change to Office 2013? Changes bring exciting new features, but new versions of your favorite software can take a bit of getting used to. To help ease the transition, we've...
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Week of February 4: New blogs from Windows Server/System Center MVPs
Hi, all,Getting started with Windows InTune or Windows Server Essentials? Curious about how Office 365 licensing works with Remote Desktop Services? Setting up PowerShell Web Access for remote server...
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Huawei unveils a new Windows Phone for Africa
Microsoft and Huawei today unveiled a new Windows Phone designed specifically for Africa, one of the most rapidly-growing technology markets in the world. The phone, called the Huawei 4Afrika, is the...
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