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Three Big Trends for Corporate Computing (and what to do about them)
Until just a few years ago, the entire IT industry was pretty tightly focused on two things: PC’s and Servers. These clients are still the biggest players in our market, but, for a modern IT pro,...
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Don’t miss PDT at MMS 2013!
Those of you attending MMS 2013 in Las Vegas next week, be sure to add SD-B302 “Automating System Center Deployment with the PowerShell Deployment Toolkit” to your schedule on Thursday at 12:00PM in...
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The Building Clouds Blog Automation Track is MMS 2013 Bound!
Hello Readers and Viewers!Headed to MMS 2013 in Las Vegas next week? We are!Who?Well, I actually believe the entire Technical Enablement & Delivery (TED) team will be there along with thousands of...
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Windows Server 2012 – About Clustered Storage Spaces Issue
In this post I’ll examine a specific issue in Storage Spaces while using with Enclosure awareness.Storage Space Setup with Enclosure awareness:Note: There are only 2 enclosures for the disks.The...
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Error with the creation of an unmanaged VDI Pool collection
Good morning AskPerf! Ramesh here from the Microsoft Platforms Support Team. I am blogging today about an issue I recently worked. This particular issue was with the creation of an Unmanaged Virtual...
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Optimizing Windows Server 2012 storage management via PowerShell for both...
Although the new Server Manager UI in Windows Server 2012 provides a very convenient and intuitive workflow to provision and manage Storage, interaction with PowerShell is required to access many of...
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Mailbag: Problem of the week: DNS Aging and Scavenging (getting the DNS...
Greg here with a quick post where the new DNS PowerShell cmdlets in AD made a task much easier. Many of our customers use Microsoft DNS and a feature of Microsoft DNS is the ability to remove stale...
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BI in Excel and Excel Services
Business intelligence (BI) is all about bringing together data and turning it into meaningful information that people can use to make better business decisions. Just in case you didn’t already know,...
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Available on Demand: Garage Series Live! Real-world adoption tips, tricks,...
Watch as we connect with well-known technology analyst, author and blogger, Paul Thurrott and other special guests, including early adopter customers and top Office engineers. In this special...
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Reason Closed in the Issue Tracker
In this release, we added a new “reason closed” feature. Now when you close an issue, you can specify the reason that the issue was closed. This allows you to inform your users and team members why you...
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App roundup: Back to the drawing board
Hi, I'm Antonia, a writer on the Windows team, but visual art was really my first creative passion (I majored in painting in college). These days, it can be a challenge to still find time to draw and...
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Active Directory Considerations in Azure Virtual Machines and Virtual...
In the first part of this series on Active Directory considerations in Azure Virtual Machines and Virtual Networks we took a look at Hybrid IT and how Hybrid IT can solve some important problems in...
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Pie in the Sky (April 5, 2013)
It's been a busy week and I'm looking forward to spend some time this weekend on this weeks links. Hopefully you'll find them as interesting as I do:CloudTips for a successful submission to the Windows...
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.NET Memory Allocation Profiling
In Visual Studio we ship a .NET allocation profiler feature that is documented on MSDN here, here, here, and here. Note how this feature was available in the Premium edition of Visual Studio but as of...
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Streaming Diagnostics Trace Logging from the Azure Command Line (plus Glimpse!)
I’ve long said when in doubt, turn on tracing. Sometimes "got here"-debugging is a great tool. I tend to use System.Diagnostics.Trace a lot in my code. Then I'll use ELMAH or Glimpse to get more...
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Announcement: Microsoft Anti-Malware Platform Update
The anti-malware platform will be updated Tuesday April 9, 2013 across multiple products. These products include Forefront Endpoint Protection 2010 and System Center 2012 Endpoint Protection SP1...
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Windows Phone Next App Star: The final four apps and the developers behind them
It’s hard to believe we’re down to the final 4 in our Windows Phone Next App Star contest. But from 9,000 apps submitted by developers in 79 countries, then narrowed to 64 apps, then voted by the...
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Outdoor Journal: The apps I packed for a 33-mile backcountry adventure with...
My Windows Phone has hiked hundreds of miles with me. It’s carved up thousands of snowy vertical feet, trekked to the 14,411-foot summit of Mount Rainer, and last month accompanied me on a 33-mile ski...
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Sending common or canned responses from a shared or repository mailbox
As a Microsoft Premier Field Engineer (PFE), I assist companies with Lotus Notes and GroupWise migrations to Exchange/Outlook environments and have found that different applications act differently....
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