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Updated Links on Windows Server 2012 File Server and SMB 3.0
In this post, I'm providing a reference to the most relevant content related to Windows Server 2012 that is related to the File Server, the SMB 3.0 features and its associated scenarios like Hyper-V...
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What, exactly, do you get in an Office 365 plan?
Are you looking for more details about Microsoft Office 365 plans? Perhaps you’ve compared Office 365 plans and pricing and narrowed down your options, but you need more specifics. What exactly can you...
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Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V Best Practices (In Easy Checklist Form)
Windows Server 2012 provided major improvements to the Hyper-V role, including increased consolidation of server workloads, Hyper-V Replica, Cluster Aware Updating (CAU), network virtualization and the...
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Join Tuesday’s webinar: 5 Things about Freezing Panes in Excel
Need to navigate that huge spreadsheet quickly? Freeze panes can help by allowing you to view your column and row headings continuously while you scroll your document. In this webinar, we'll...
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Launching the Configuration Manager Remote Control Program from Service Manager
Antoni Hanus, one of the System Center Premier Field Engineers has put together a nice blog post describing how to create a custom console task in Service Manager to allow console users to launch the...
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Free Training—Microsoft Tools for VMware Integration and Migration
The IT Pro Evangelism team, Microsoft Learning and the Microsoft Virtual Academy are pleased to announce the next Jump Start course Microsoft Tools for VMware Integration & Migration on Thursday,...
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Hyper-V Replica and Riverbed
As part of setting up a replication relationship, Hyper-V Replica transfers the initial VHDs over the network – depending on the size of the VHD, this operation can be time consuming and also impacts...
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Extending the Service Request Form and Exposing the Request Offering Field in...
In Service Manager the portal is used to submit new incidents and service requests. Once an end-user submits a new service request through the portal, there is no way out-of-the-box to change the...
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Announcing Microsoft Connectivity Analyzer (MCA) 1.0 and Microsoft Remote...
Back in November 2012, we announced our MCA Beta client. We have been very busy working to improve the testing options that are available from the MCA client. Here’s what we’ve built for the 1.0...
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PASS BAC Preview Series: Business Analytics Defined
The PASS Business Analytics Conference (PASSBAC) Preview Series continues with more great insights from PASS Board Member, Douglas McDowell, who gives unique perspective on what PASSBAC is and how this...
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Advanced Developers Conference 2013: C++
The Advanced Developers Conference 2013 takes place May 7-8 this year with sessions on building modern device apps, drivers, graphics development, debugging, creating and consuming cloud services,...
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Burton’s free snowboarding app for Windows Phone 8 gets a big update
The snow season is starting to wind down, but there’s still time to get your Shaun White on. Snowboard powerhouse Burton today updated its free Windows Phone 8 app—available exclusively on Nokia Lumia...
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Flash in Windows 8
Starting tomorrow, we are updating Internet Explorer 10 in Windows 8 and Windows RT to enable Flash content to run by default. On Windows 8, all Flash content continues to be enabled for IE on the...
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Migrating ANIDs to Windows Phone 8
This blog post was authored by Joao Lucas Guberman Raza, a program manager on the Windows Phone team.- AdamANID and ANID2 ANID (anonymous ID) and ANID2 are hashed representations of the Microsoft...
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SQL Database Connectivity and the Idempotency Issue
Applications connecting to SQL Server sometimes experience connections breaks due back-end failures. In general, they tend to be uncommon in LAN environment and more frequent in WAN topologies, when...
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Month Ordering by Calendar Sequence when Slicing Measures by CalendarMonth
From Atchut Barli: I have seen few customers who tried the blog http://blogs.technet.com/b/servicemanager/archive/2012/12/07/incidents-or-service-requests-sliced-by-months-quarters.aspx to prepare...
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How Microsoft Uses Service Manager: Adding the Request Offering Relationship...
Out of the box the relationship between a request offering and an incident or service request is displayed as a read only label control. The Monitoring and Management (M&M) team here at Microsoft...
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Code Sample for “Cascading Dependencies”
A new capability in System Center 2012 SP1 - Orchestrator allows an activity developer to define "cascading dependencies" between input parameters. For example if the user chooses a state like...
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Buckle up and watch the new Office Garage Series
What do skydiving, aerobatics, Ferraris or wakeboarding have to do with the new Office? What are the most XStream installs of the new Office that you can imagine on air, land and water? Check out the...
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Custom Placement Rules and Availability Sets in SCVMM 2012 SP1
I’m Hilton Lange, a Software Development Engineer on the VMM team. I want to conclude my series of placement blogs by talking about the custom rules that you can configure on your VMM server to give...
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