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Where have all my Linux packages gone?
If you have recently installed Cumulative Update 7 for System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 (CU7) on your management servers and then attempted to push install a Linux\Unix agent then you may have...
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Now showing at a theater near you: The Windows Phone Challenge
It’s not Star Wars, but the battle scenes are just as epic. Our popular Windows Phone Challenge video series, which pits Windows Phone 8 against other well-known smartphones, is back on the big screen....
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List of Fixes/Improvements in System Center 2012 SP1 – Service Manager
At the request of lots of people, we have published a list of the more prominent fixes and improvements to Service Manager in System Center 2012 SP1. You can find the list in this KB...
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Windows Azure Store: Expanded Availability
We are excited to announce that the Windows Azure Store is now available in 25 new markets, bringing the total count of supported markets to 36. The Windows Azure Store is the place to discover,...
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Data Explorer brings Big Data connectivity to Excel 2013
Today we continue our series of BI related posts highlighting a recent announcement for a new add-in for Excel. On Wednesday, we announced an early look at a future addition to our self-service line-up...
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How to profile a XAML Windows Store App
If you are developing a Windows Store App using XAML (whether it’s C++, C#, or VB), there is a good chance there will be areas of your app where you would like to improve the performance. To assist...
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KB: The Orchestrator Send SNMP Trap activity always sets Generic Identifier...
We just published a new KB article that talks about an issue where the System Center 2012 Orchestrator Send SNMP Trap activity always sets the Generic Identifier value as coldStart(0) regardless of the...
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KB: The VMM service crashes when a virtual machine is refreshed - "Error...
We just published a new KB article that talks about an issue where the VMM service crashes when a virtual machine is refreshed. The error is "Error converting data type int to smallint” and it can...
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Learning more about Pointer Events as the W3C publishes Last Call Working Draft
On Tuesday February 19, the W3C published the Pointer Events specification as a Last Call Working Draft, a significant milestone in the path towards standardization and interoperability. Begun a little...
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Outlook.com visits IFC’s Independent Spirit Awards
A week ago, Outlook.com took the preview tag off their new email service. They shared some great feedback received by the more than 60 million people who joined Outlook.com during the preview. And the...
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Windows 8 – Built with Security in Mind
Hi, I’m Chris Hallum, Senior Product Manager on the Windows Team. This week we’re down at the RSA Conference in San Francisco talking about some of the security benefits of Windows 8. As you’ve likely...
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Improving Issue Tracker Details
In this release, the CodePlex team made improvements to the issue tracker. Two notable changes are:In an effort to reduce clutter on the issue page, fields that have a value of “unassigned” are now...
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New Add-ons in the Windows Azure Store
Editor's Note: This post comes from Chris Lattner, Sr. Product Manager for Windows Azure Store.We are excited to announce the availability of four great new add-ons in the Windows Azure Store. If you...
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Increasing Availability – The REAP Principles (Redundancy, Entanglement,...
Introduction Increasing availability is a key concern with computer systems. With all the consolidation and virtualization efforts under way, you need to make sure your services are always up and...
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Stage 3: How to enable a list as a catalog
This is a blog post in the series “How to set up a product-centric website in SharePoint Server 2013”. In this series, I'll use data from a fictitious company called "Contoso" to show you how to use...
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O’Reilly Strata: Busting Big Data Adoption Myths with Halo 4–Part 3
Structured or unstructured – what to store? How about all of it?I spoke at the O’Reilly Strata Conference last year and am back again this year to share thoughts about big data. It’s been a remarkable...
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In the Community: Meet David Cravey
Welcome back to In the Community, our continuing series focusing on members of the C++ and developer community. This week, meet David Cravey, I cut my teeth on programming in BASIC (GW-BASIC/QBasic),...
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How Will You Spend Your Friday Morning?
How will you spend your Friday morning ? Hopefully, tuning in to our 11th Springboard Series Virtual Roundtable titled, “What IT Pros Should Know About Windows 8 Enterprise”. Want to learn about key...
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The Latest on Lync-Skype Connectivity
Last week Microsoft announced that Lync-Skype connectivity for presence, IM, and voice will be available to all Lync users by June. Today a follow-up article was published on the Lync Team Blog that...
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The Internet's Best Placeholder Image Sites for Web Development
So you're making a site but you haven't got the images ready. You'll need placeholders, but things are changing quick and you don't want to make a bunch of images you'll eventually through away.Enter...
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