Soleil Moon Frye Shares Tips on How to De-clutter Your Tech Life
As parents, many of us hold onto all of the little knick-knacks like our child’s first tooth or that pile of birthday cards friends have sent over the years. But what happens when those knick-knacks...
View ArticleMark your calendars: Build 2013 will be June 26-28 in San Francisco
Today we announced that our next developer conference, Build 2013, is taking place June 26-28, 2013 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. Save the date and mark your calendar for the opening of...
View ArticleOffice 365 ProPlus Administrator Series: Office 365 ProPlus and Series Overview
Author: Jeremy_MSFT Originally published to the Office 365 Preview blog.Welcome to my series on Office 365 ProPlus for the administrator. Some of you will have used various components of Office 365 and...
View ArticleHow to create an Active Directory Subnet/Site with /32 or /128 and why
While working with a customer this week on their Active Directory (AD) Site configuration I found out they had not heard about using a /32 or /128 subnet mask. In fact my Bing search did not reveal a...
View ArticleGarage Series: The Great Race--did rolling out Office just get faster?
In this episode, the intrepid Garage Series hosts explore the change in guard of compatibility tools. Conducting the great race of Office installs, they catch up with Office engineer John Hoegger about...
View ArticleNow available: Hotfix rollup for Asset Intelligence compatibility issues in...
Just a quick note to let you know that the Hotfix rollup for Asset Intelligence compatibility issues in System Center Configuration Manager 2007 SP2: December 2012 is now available for download. You...
View ArticleNew middleware makes porting games to Windows Phone easy
We’re at the Game Developers Conference (GDC) in San Francisco today showing developers just how fast and efficient it is to port their existing games to Windows Phone. Window Phone 8 unlocks a...
View ArticleA raft of games arrive for Windows Phone 8—including Chaos Rings and Gravity...
The Game Developers Conference (GDC) is in full swing in San Francisco this week, and the gaming gods must be pleased, because a ton of great new titles for Windows Phone 8 just went live in the Store....
View ArticleTemple Run is here—and free—for Windows Phone 8
The addictive mega-hit running game is now available for Windows Phone 8. Grab it here. (The app just published, so it might take a few hours until you see it in the Store or in search.) At the risk...
View ArticleFormat and customize Excel charts quickly with the new Formatting Task pane
The new Excel makes creating and customizing charts simpler and more intuitive. One part of the fluid new experience is the Formatting Task pane, which replaces the Format dialog box. The new...
View ArticleProject for team members
Project managers can do their best work when life is easy for their team members. With the release of the new Project, now there are new and improved ways for team members to do their part in keeping...
View ArticleData Explorer Online Search Overview
Working with data to gain new insights not only involves dealing with the data that you already have but also being able to find additional data to complement your analysis. In many cases, this...
View ArticleYou’re Invited to Our Upcoming Ignite Events
Are you a Microsoft professional with deep technical knowledge? Do you want to take your skills to the next level? Like mingling with the industries’ best and learning directly from Microsoft peers?...
View ArticleUpdating PCs and Virtual Desktops for Update Rollup 1 of Windows Multipoint...
Now that Update Rollup 1 is available on the Download Center and via Windows Update we’ve heard from a few customers who missed that if you are using the MultiPoint Connector to manage Windows 7 PCs,...
View ArticleUsing named events to coordinate foreground apps and background agents
In Windows Phone OS 7.1, Microsoft introduced the background agents feature which enables you to periodically run a small piece of code in the background. The same technology is used for background...
View ArticleThe new Office Garage Series: Did Deployment Just Get Faster?
In this week’s new Office Garage series episode, our hosts Jeremy Chapman and Yoni Kirsh explore the change in guard of compatibility tools; race Click-to-Run Office installs using MDT, SCCM, and...
View ArticleSQLIO, PowerShell and storage performance: measuring IOPs, throughput and...
1. Introduction I have been doing storage-related demos and publishing blogs with some storage performance numbers for a while, and I commonly get questions such as “How do you run these tests?” or...
View ArticleUsing SharePoint Lists as LightSwitch Entities and with CSOM (Chris Rummel)
Hi, I’m Chris Rummel, a tester on the LightSwitch team. I work mostly on SharePoint features. Brian has already gone over a lot of the benefits of SharePoint development with LightSwitch in his...
View ArticleAnnouncing Availability of Global Service Monitor and System Center Advisor...
On January 15th, we announced the availability of System Center 2012 Service Pack 1, which helps deliver on Microsoft’s Cloud OS vision to provide customers with one consistent platform for...
View ArticleBuilding a Windows Server 2012 Cloud Infrastructure with PowerShell by Josh...
Today we have a real treat for you! In this blog post, Joshua Adams, who is a PM in the Microsoft EEC, shows you how to create a Windows Server 2012 based private cloud infrastructure using PowerShell...
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