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Contre Jour Returns with Beautiful New Levels to Excite Fans around the Globe
In October, we introduced the world to the adorable creature Petit by bringing the groundbreaking game Contre Jour to the web with Internet Explorer 10 and HTML5. Today, we are excited to announce that...
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Deploying complex solutions into virtualized environments - or "To virtualize...
A very active topic in the world of private cloud regards which applications should be virtualized and which applications need to run in a traditional, siloed datacenter environment. At this time it’s...
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Baseball, Bulletins and the February 2013 Release
Before we discuss this month’s release, I wanted to briefly touch on the big event happening this week. No, I’m not talking about the romantically-themed holiday on Thursday. I’m talking about the...
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Lessons 451 & 452 in farming
OK, I made up the numbers. I debated what to call this post. Adventures with a horse? Water: a famer’s nemesis? It’s been a fun couple of days.Sunday night the whole family was out doing chores and...
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MSRT February 2013 – Sirefef
The family added to the February release of the Malicious Software Removal Tool is Win32/Sirefef. Win32/Sirefef is a highly prevalent complex multi-component family which continues to evolve. The...
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Update to VS Git tooling
Yesterday, we posted a small update to the Git tooling for VS. Since we just released it the other day, we don’t have much new yet but we should continue (at least for a while) to update it after each...
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Hit the slopes with Winter Ski & Ride, a Nokia exclusive for Windows Phone 8
One of the perqs of owning a Nokia-made Windows Phone is access to the Nokia Collection, a portfolio of 40-plus exclusive apps for Lumia owners in the Store. The latest timely addition is Winter Ski...
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Run CI builds in your Git team project
Does your team use continuous integration (CI)? Are you an early adopter of the new Git capabilities in Visual Studio and Team Foundation Service? If so, you'll be glad to hear that you can define a CI...
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Chasing an active Social Engineering Fraud at Amazon Kindle
TL;DR: I've just spent several hours chasing a socially engineered (not password compromised) stolen Kindle through a series of phone calls, chats, virtual shipping addresses, UPS tracking numbers and...
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Released: Exchange Server 2010 SP3
Earlier last year, we announced that Exchange 2010 Service Pack 3 would be coming in the first half of 2013. Later, we updated the timeframe to Q1 2013. Today, we're pleased to announce the...
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February 2013 Internet Explorer updates
Today we released two critically rated bulletins and one security advisory for Internet Explorer.Microsoft Security Bulletin MS13-009- CriticalThis security update resolves thirteen privately reported...
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Released: Update Rollup 6 for Exchange Server 2010 SP2 and Exchange 2007 SP3...
Today the Exchange CXP team released the following update rollups to the Download Center. All three releases cover Security Bulletin MS13-012 (KB 2809279). Because this is a security release, the...
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ALM Rangers ship the ALM Readiness treasure map
We are pleased to announce that we have released the version of the Windows Store reference application that delivers the ALM Readiness treasure map to your Surface and other Windows 8 devices. Both...
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Avoid repeating yourself: Create a Word macro
Repeatedly entering the same information in document after document, over and over...there has to be a quicker way, right? Word macros can save you time (and potentially, some sanity) by automating...
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Operations Manager 2012 SP1 is now officially supported in the System Center...
Just wanted to let you know that we’ve completed compatibility testing for the System Center Security Monitoring Pack for Endpoint Protection and it now officially supports System Center 2012...
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Make your app more attractive to customers in the Windows Phone Store
We’ve been talking a lot recently about what it will take to be one of the 64 winners of the Windows Phone Next App Star*contest to advance to the voting rounds, where the winning app will get the...
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PowerShell snippet: “start a virtual machine and wait for a bit”
Over the last year there are a couple of PowerShell functions that have become a common set of many of my scripts. One example is this “StartVMAndWait” function:function...
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Get the new Office Visio stencil with the cool icons
Community members have noticed the cool new icons that have been appearing in our content. Here is an example: This new icon set is the result of a huge joint effort by people in the Lync Server,...
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Release Notes 2/13/2013
This week the CodePlex team made several improvements across the site. A couple noteworthy changes are:Replying to a discussion thread through email will now have the expected behavior and...
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Intro to Hybrid Cloud for the Private Cloud Audience
Let’s say that you have your private cloud the way you want it. You’ve got the self-service, the metered services, the elasticity and the pooled resources and it’s running just the way you want. But...
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