Hotfix: Backups are unsuccessful when you use Windows Azure Online Backup
When you try to back up data by using Windows Azure Online Backup, is the backup process is unsuccessful? If so this hotfix may be for you.The Windows Azure Access Control Service (ACS) certificate...
View ArticleThe Weather Channel nominated for Gartner Business Intelligence Excellence...
Microsoft nominated The Weather Channel for the Gartner Business Intelligence Excellence Award based on their 2012 initiative to implement a flexible BI solution based on Microsoft SQL Server 2012. The...
View ArticleSearchStorage.com Products of the Year: Windows Server 2012 takes the Gold!
Windows Server 2012 was recognized as the top Storage System Software product in TechTarget’s SearchStorage.com and Storage Magazine Products of the Year competition. Specific features that caught the...
View ArticleFREE: Introduction to Hyper-V Training
The Microsoft Virtual Academy training portal offers quick and easy access to presentations, webcasts, whitepapers and other technical content about Microsoft’s Cloud technologies. It is public, free...
View ArticleFREE: Microsoft Virtualization for VMware Professionals Training
The Microsoft Virtual Academy training portal offers quick and easy access to presentations, webcasts, whitepapers and other technical content about Microsoft’s Cloud technologies. It is public, free...
View ArticleBloomberg financial app now available to all Windows Phones
Bloomberg is a big name when it comes to financial info and business smarts, and their free app—formerly a Nokia exclusive—has just been redesigned and made available for all Windows Phones. Grab it...
View ArticleCreativity in Windows 8 with Fresh Paint
I’m posting this on behalf of my colleague Aaron Coldiron, a group manager on the Fresh Paint Team. – BrandonWhat is the future of art in the digital age? That’s one of the questions that we’ve been...
View ArticleThe Evolution of DevLabs
A little over four years ago, we created the DevLabs portal on MSDN. The idea behind this site was to provide a hub for Microsoft teams to publicly share prototypes of innovative tools for developers,...
View ArticleViva the ASUS VivoBook X202!
Are you in the market for a great Windows 8 notebook with a touchscreen that won’t drain your bank account? Look no further than the ASUS VivoBook X202. The past few weeks I have been spending some...
View Article.NET Framework Documentation Improvements
The CLR documentation team has been busy responding to feedback and making updates and changes to the .NET Framework documentation in the MSDN Library. We would like to tell you about the most recent...
View ArticleUpdated Office Deployment Tool for Click-to-Run available
Summary:Learn about the updated Office Deployment Tool for Office 365 Click-to-Run desktop applications. If you are an IT Pro administrator who has signed up for Office 365, you likely already know...
View ArticleUpdate: Exchange Server TechNet Library URLs
Many of you have seen our previous blog post announcing the Exchange documentation URL changes, and have provided us with your feedback on the matter. Starting off, we want to thank you for all of it;...
View ArticleReducing your power consumption with SCVMM 2012 and Power Optimization (PO)
I’m Hilton Lange, Software Development Engineer in the VMM 2012 team. I’d like to continue my previous article about Dynamic Optimization (DO) by telling you about its closely related sister feature,...
View ArticleLive@edu customers: New resources to help you educate users about the upgrade...
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...
View ArticleStage 1: Create site collections for cross-site publishing
This is a blog post in the series “How to set up a product-centric website in SharePoint 2013”. In this series, I'll use data from a fictitious company called "Contoso" to show you how to use search...
View ArticleYou're just another carriage return line feed in the wall
I love getting pull requests on GitHub. It's such a lovely gift when someone wants to contribute their code to my code. However, it seems there are three kinds of pull requests that I get.Awesome,...
View ArticleHyper-V Replica Runbooks
System Center 2012 Orchestrator provides a powerful workflow management solution which allows IT administrators to automate different tasks exposed by the platform. At the heart of the Orchestrator is...
View ArticleNow in the Store: Angry Birds Seasons
If pig popping has become a tradition in your family, rejoice because a new Angry Birds title has arrived. Angry Birds Seasons for Windows Phone 8 adds changing seasonal themes to this wildly popular...
View ArticleAnd the winner is…you! Use the Oscars Ballot Predictor
Don't have time to watch all the Oscar nominated movies, but want the inside scoop on the likely winners? Try the new Oscars Ballot Predictor app, which brings a bit of Hollywood fun to Excel 2013 and...
View ArticleWindows Multipoint Server 2012 Now Available Including Zero Client Support
I’m happy to announce that not only is Windows MultiPoint Server 2012 generally available, but last week, we added support for USB-Over-Ethernet Zero clients. Windows MultiPoint Server is a product...
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