Kanban customizable columns, “under the hood”
Kanban customizable columns was made publicly available on the March 4 service update, and will be available in the RC version of VS Update 2.You can read the release notes for an overview of the...
View ArticleDelivering access to knowledge: Wikipedia
Wikipedia needs no introduction: it’s the largest encyclopedia in the world, built by users, and has become a truly indispensable resource. With users all around the world, one of their primary goals...
View ArticleMarch CTP of Visual Studio Update 2 now available
Visual Studio Updates are a mechanism we are using to provide ongoing value throughout the year to our Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server customers. These updates will provide features to support...
View ArticleAnnouncing a New Preview of the LightSwitch HTML Client
Today we are announcing a new updated preview of the LightSwitch HTML Client, which is now available as part of Visual Studio 2012 Update 2 CTP 4. This update brings many new exciting features and...
View ArticleDesktop Deployment Gurus Mix Things up to Explain the New Office
Desktop Deployment Gurus Mix Things up to Explain the New OfficeSpringboard Series Windows alum Jeremy Chapman and Yoni Kirsh are on a mission to help people understand the different delivery models...
View ArticleProgramming's not for you? How about thinking? Be empowered.
There seems to be two extremes of this whole "Learn to Code" movement which has come to a crescendo with the "What most schools don't teach" video from Code.org. People seem to fall on the side of...
View ArticleIntroducing the new Visio website
We've appreciated the reception of the new Visio, including the great feedback from early adopters around the ease of use improvements and the ability to work as a team on a single diagram...
View ArticleNew Promo at Staples: Trade in your old PC/Tablet and save up to $400 on a...
Staples has a new promotion that’s just kicked off, “Trade up to touch”: Starting yesterday and running through until April 27th, Staples is offering customers the opportunity to get up to $400 back...
View ArticleGetting Started with LightSwitch in Visual Studio 2012 Update 2 CTP4
Today CTP4 of Visual Studio 2012 Update 2 released which now also includes the LightSwitch HTML Client Preview! Take a look at John’s announcement on the team blog for release details and what’s new....
View ArticleConnecting to Live with the C++ REST SDK
Hi, I’m Andy Rich, a QA on the C++ team. Earlier this week, the C++ team released the C++ REST SDK (codename “Casablanca”) on CodePlex (http://casablanca.codeplex.com). This blog post will walk you...
View ArticleNow Available: Exchange Server 2013 Deployment Assistant
We’re excited to announce the availability of the Exchange Server 2013 Deployment Assistant at http://technet.microsoft.com/exdeploy2013. The Exchange Deployment Assistant is a web-based tool that...
View ArticleNew Operations Manager Management Packs for Cluster, NLB, WDS
Windows Server ClusterThe System Center Management Pack for Windows Server Cluster monitors the health of the Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, and Windows Server 2012...
View ArticleWindows Azure Updates: Android Support, SQL Reporting Services, Active...
This past weekend we released a number of enhancements to Windows Azure. These new capabilities include:Mobile Services: Android support, East Asia Region Support, iOS dev contentSQL Reporting...
View ArticleTFS Kanban board Swim lane customization walk through
While Tarun couldn’t attend the MVP Summit in person (having just gotten married it didn’t seem the most prudent use of his vacation time); he was definitely well missed and more importantly put the...
View ArticleOffice 365 ProPlus Administrator Series: Office 365 ProPlus Security...
Author: Jeremy_MSFT Originally published to the Office 365 Preview blog.Office 365 ProPlus changes the security and data management story from securing end points and activities on the end point to...
View ArticleStage 4: Set up search and enable the crawling of your catalog content
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...
View ArticleA New User Experience (Heinrich Wendel)
After releasing the preview of our HTML Client to a broader audience, it became pretty clear from your feedback that we had to work on the user experience of LightSwitch HTML applications. While not...
View ArticleMicrosoft’s Database Research Lab Conceives PolyBase to Easily Join...
Complementing Microsoft’s overall Big Data strategy, PolyBase is a breakthrough new technology on the data processing engine in SQL Server 2012 Parallel Data Warehouse Appliance designed as the...
View ArticleTFS Update 2 Offers Settings Preservation for In-Place Upgrades
Great news!Given the new, faster release cadence of updates for TFS 2012, there has been great demand for improvements to the upgrade process; namely, to minimize any manual steps it requires of the...
View ArticleDownload the Office and SharePoint Visual Studio tools!
Hello Office and SharePoint developers!You may have read Somasegar’s announcement yesterday that the Visual Studio 2012 tools have been released. You can download the latest version of the tools here....
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