MP Blog - Consistent, World-Class Manageability
The goal of Operations Manager (and of course the whole System Center Suite) is to provide consistent, world-class manageability. We claim that our product provides best in class monitoring for...
View ArticleAre you missing a cow?
Saturday night I was at my son’s lacrosse game with the family. My wife got a phone call. It was a fellow farmer and neighbor, Noah (about 2 miles south of us). His question was “Are you missing a...
View ArticleGet virtually unlimited attachments and get up-to-date with Outlook.com
Outlook.com left preview just a few weeks ago as the world's fastest growing email service. Millions of customers continue to join Outlook.com daily. We have been humbled by some fantastic reviews and...
View ArticleOffice 365 ProPlus Administrator Series: Configuring Office 365 ProPlus...
Author: Jeremy_MSFT Originally published to the Office 365 Preview blog.Office 365 ProPlus was designed to enable administrators to control the configuration, installation and updating experience using...
View ArticleTechnology fails in film are the new Wilhelm Scream
There's no other explanation. It must be a tradition like the Wilhelm scream. What, haven't heard of the Wilhelm scream? Well, once you do it's impossible to not hear it in every film. It's in freaking...
View ArticleRounding up Office 365 developer content
This week, we completed the facelift of our entry point for Office 365 developer content on MSDN.The Office 365 Developer Center pulls together the resources that partners and developers need to build...
View ArticleRuby on Rails: ActiveRecord with SQL Database
Just a quick note that I've udpated a previous blog post (http://blogs.msdn.com/b/silverlining/archive/2011/09/14/using-active-record-with-sql-azure.aspx) on connecting to SQL Database from...
View ArticlePASS BAC Preview Series: Looking for Big Data Value in All the Wrong Places
In this guest post from Hyoun Park, PASS Business Analytics Conference (PASS BAC) speaker, we get an interesting twist on the challenge of Big Data and how to stop looking for solutions in all the...
View ArticleMicrosoft and The Economist Present ‘From Data to Insights’ on March 26th
Mark your calendars for March 26th, and join us from 9:30 – 10:30 am PST, as Microsoft and The Economist join together to present an exclusive webcast discussing the impact of big data on the future of...
View ArticleDesigning for multiple form factors
Creating applications that run on a variety of form factors has become a necessity in an environment where applications live in the cloud and people bring their own devices to work, commonly referred...
View ArticleUsing the SQLite database engine with Windows Phone 8 apps
This blog post was authored by Himadri Sarkar, a program manager on the Windows Phone team.- AdamYou may have heard that with the Windows Phone SDK 8.0 release, the SQLite database engine is fully...
View ArticleIntegrating App-V with Microsoft VDI
Often I’m asked by customers if they should use App-V with Microsoft VDI. The answer is a resounding yes! App-V 5.0 is designed to be easy and efficient to use in VDI environments (both session-based...
View ArticleGetting ready for spring with Windows themes
I am so over winter. I am so done hoping we might get some actual snow (a rarity here in the mild maritime Pacific Northwest), and so ready to move on to spring. And although it’s still cold, wet, and...
View ArticleLeveraging Windows Server 2012 Capabilities to Address Private Cloud Security...
In my previous post I covered two major sections of private cloud security: Compute and Storage. This post will focus on the next two sections: Networking and Resiliency.NetworkingIt is through network...
View ArticleSystem Center Operations Manager Sessions @ Microsoft Management Summit 2013...
BELOW IS A LIST OF SESSIONS THAT WILL BE PRESENTED BY THE OPSMGR (SCOM)PRODUCT ENGINEERINGTEAM AT MMS 2013 (http://www.2013mms.com/)BELOW IS A LIST OF SESSIONS THAT WILL BE PRESENTED BY THE OPSMGR...
View ArticleFelicity Huffman goes to the cloud with Office 365
Desperate House Wives star and founder of Whattheflicka.com, Felicity Huffman, is a busy mother who constantly juggles family and personal responsibilities. As a longtime user of Office, Felicity has...
View ArticleGet organized fast: Saved by Project Pro for Office 365
Imagine that it's 2:00pm on Friday afternoon and you're leaving a planning meeting for the big springtime marketing blitz upon which your company, Coho Winery, is resting its hopes of international...
View ArticleSlow Boot Slow Login (SBSL) Hotfix Rollup for Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2...
Hey y’all, Mark here with some great news. A massive Slow Boot Slow Login (SBSL) hotfix rollup for enterprises that includes 90 post Windows 7/2008 R2 SP1 hotfixes is available for download. The...
View Article5 addictive new indie games for Windows Phone (March 2013)
A bumper crop of top-notch indie titles arrived in the Store since last month’s column. Here are five of my favorites. Look for more options in the Store’s Next Big Thing Collection.__________My...
View ArticleDeploy a Secure ASP.NET MVC application with OAuth, Membership and SQL Database
This tutorial shows you how to build a secure ASP.NET MVC 4 web application that enables users to log in with credentials from Facebook, Yahoo, and Google. You will also deploy the application to...
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