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MAILBAG: Should I use the same network adapters for all interfaces on my...
Not sure where February went but it sure is flying by in a hurry. During the month I had another interesting question given to me to answer. Don't forget that you can contact us using the Contact...
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MVC Single Page Application Template for ASP.NET and Web Tools 2012.2
With the final release of ASP.NET and Web Tools 2012.2, we refreshed single page application page on asp.net . It talks about KnockoutJS Template and introduced 4 community created SPA templates that...
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Pie in the Sky (February 22, 2013)
Wow, Friday already. This week sort of flew past. Here's some links for your weekend reading:Node v0.8.20 released: Another week, another Node.js release.Enabling Remote Desktop on Ubuntu in Windows...
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Quick Look: DirectX 11 Gaming in 4K on Windows 8
Anyone that’s into PC gaming knows that display and graphics are core to the gaming experience. Imagine if you could take your 24”-27” 1080p display and quadruple the surface area and pixel count. Now...
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App roundup: Start your engines…
With the 2013 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series season kicking off last weekend and leading up to the 55th running of the Daytona 500 this Sunday, February 24th, I thought this would be a good a time to share...
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Recent Cyberattacks
As reported by Facebook and Apple , Microsoft can confirm that we also recently experienced a similar security intrusion. Consistent with our security response practices, we chose not to make a...
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Time to go PST hunting with the new PST Capture 2.0
Ahoy, Exchange Ninjas! It’s time to buckle up and go PST hunting again with the new PST Capture 2.0! Earlier this week, we released a brand new version of the free PST Capture tool that allows you to...
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What’s up with WhatsApp? A lot.
WhatsApp, the free and mega-popular cross-platform messaging app, was updated today in the Windows Phone Store. The changes in version 2.9 include a great new look and handy new features. For starters,...
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Bad day
Clearly yesterday was a bad day. Team Foundation Service was mostly down for approximately 9 hours. The underlying issue was an expired SSL certificate in Windows Azure storage. We use HTTPS to...
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Toyota Racing Teams Open NASCAR Season with Windows 8
You may recall a recent business story that I shared back in December around how TRD, U.S.A. (Toyota Racing Development) is leveraging Windows 8 to gain a competitive edge in the racing industry. Our...
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Hardware options for highly available Windows Server 2012 systems using...
Highly available Windows Server 2012 systems using shared, directly-attached storage can be built using either Storage Spaces or a validated clustered RAID controller. Option 1 – Storage SpacesYou can...
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Windows Azure Service Disruption from Expired Certificate
Windows Azure Storage experienced a worldwide outage impacting HTTPS traffic due to an expired SSL certificate. HTTP traffic was unaffected but the event impacted a number of Windows Azure services...
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Nokia announces new phones, apps, partnerships
Nokia just wrapped up a busy press conference at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, where most of the world’s smartphone industry is gathered this week. The company announced new Windows Phone 8...
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Windows Phone developer updates & offers from Mobile World Congress
Hello from Barcelona! Today I had the honor of joining Nokia at its App Developer Conference to help kick-off Mobile World Congress. Nokia shared some great phone and app news that you can read about...
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How to Reduce the Size of the Winsxs directory and Free Up Disk Space on...
Remember these on Windows 2003 Server? I cannot count the number of times I’ve been asked how to clean this up.Apparently I’m not the only one that hates clutter. And what about that annoying prompt to...
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Create your online brand with a combination of SharePoint 2013 and the web...
This post is an introduction to how you can easily use the Design Manager alongside the web design tools you're most comfortable with to define your company's online brand using the strong...
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Hortonworks and Microsoft Bring the Hortonworks Data Platform to Windows
Today, Hortonworks released the beta for the Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP) for Windows, the industry’s first 100% Open Source Apache Hadoop-based distribution for Windows. With Windows Server holding...
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Join us for Tuesday’s webinar: What you need to know about PowerPoint Master...
It's true that you can create PowerPoint presentations without using Master Slides or even knowing what they are, but they save so much time and effort that we think you'll be glad to know about them....
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Support Tip: Migrating a VM from Windows Server 2008 R2 to Windows Server...
Hi, Donovan Vanhaltren here with a tip on an issue you might see when migrating VMs from Windows Server 2008 R2 in System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager Service Pack 1. When trying to migrate...
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How to provide redundancy for End User Recovery (EUR) of Distributed File...
Hi, Michael Vargo here, and I wanted to take a minute and talk about how you can provide redundancy for End User Recovery of DFS shared data using Data Protection Manager.The environment diagram below...
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