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Modern Combat 4: Zero Hour for Windows Phone 8 debuts
Modern Combat 4: Zero Hour ($6.99), a first-person shooter from Xbox and Gameloft that pushes the boundaries of mobile gaming, has just been published for Windows Phone 8. Buy it here. (If you don’t...
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I Don’t Need a Private Cloud. I Already Have One!
How many times have you heard that? When speaking to IT managers or business decision makers about a Private Cloud or a Hybrid Cloud, most think that they already have one. But, do they, really? Most...
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Get the Pulse on the PASS Business Analytics Conference
Great things are taking place at PASS Business Analytics Conference (PASS BAC) this week in Chicago, and you can keep up with it all! In fact, this new conference is the place to be for business...
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Preserving Activation Blocks After Performing DAG Member Maintenance
In Exchange 2010, when a database availability group (DAG) member needs service, it can be placed into maintenance mode. Exchange 2010 includes scripts the StartDagServerMaintenance.ps1 and...
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MMS 2013 Demo: Hyper-V over SMB at high throughput with SMB Direct and SMB...
Overview I delivered a demo of Hyper-V over SMB this week at MMS 2013 that’s an evolution of a demo I did back in the Windows Server 2012 launch and also via a TechNet Radio session.Back then I showed...
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Azure Site to Site VPN Fails to Transmit Data–Tales of NAT Traversal
Yuri Diogenes and I have recently been working on a project that includes connecting an on premises network to a Windows Azure Virtual Network. In order to do this, you need to establish a site to site...
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VMM Refreshers: What’s new and what it means to you
Microsoft’s own Cheng Wei (Senior Program Manager) posted a great article on Refreshers in VMM 2012 SP1 back during the beta but everything he talks about is still relevant for the released version of...
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Extending timeout setting for Reference Data Services (RDS)
DQS, by default, uses connection timeout of 1 minutes when connecting to external Reference Data Services (RDS) provider. You can modify the timeout setting, using the following steps:Run the following...
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Announcing new Windows Server/System Center MVP Speaker Series
We are excited to announce a new series open to everyone. Starting Tuesday April 16, 2013 we will have MVP’s share their knowledge on a variety of topics to the broader community. If you are...
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Windows task manager shows wrong CPU Speed when using Hyper-V
My buddy Damian and I both recently bought the Lenovo X1 Carbon Touch. It's got Intel SpeedStep technology so it changes the CPU speed dynamically based on load. These two laptops of ours are...
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The new Office Garage Series: Recap of the Garage Series Live! Show with Paul...
This week our hosts, Jeremy Chapman and Yoni Kirsh, recap the Garage Series Live! where they discussed and demonstrated the new Office with author and tech journalist, Paul Thurrott, early adopter...
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TechNet Radio series covers Windows Server 2012 File Server and SMB 3.0...
I have been working with Bob Hunt at the TechNet Radio team to provide a series of webcasts with information about SMB 3.0 and the File Server role in Windows Server 2012.These are fairly informal...
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Day 2: PASS Business Analytics Conference, New 3D Mapping Analytics Tool for...
Today at the PASS Business Analytics Conference, Microsoft technical fellow Amir Netz and partner manager Kamal Hathi took to the stage to demonstrate how people experience insights. As mentioned in...
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Public preview of project codename “GeoFlow” for Excel delivers 3D data...
Today we are announcing the availability of the project codename "GeoFlow" Preview for Excel 2013, a result of collaborations between several teams within Microsoft. GeoFlow lets you plot geographic...
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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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April 2013 Office Update Release including an Office Web Apps Server update
Learn about the April 2013 Office Update Release that includes updates for Office, Office Web Apps Server, and SharePoint Products.Updates have been released for Office including an update for Office...
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Update Rollup 5 for System Center 2012 is now available
Update Rollup 5 for System Center 2012 is now available for download and includes fixes for Virtual Machine Manager and Operations Manager. The article below discusses the issues that are fixed in...
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Xerox Improves Developer Efficiency by 40 percent, Reduces Costs with DevOps
If your developers are in India, your IT operations team is in the United States, and your customers are all over the world, you have a big coordination challenge. The Xerox India Development Center...
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Task Based APIs for Service Bus
Editor's Note: This post comes from Scott Seely, Developer on the Windows Azure Service Bus Team.We recently released a new version of the Windows Azure Service Bus Client SDK via NuGet. Currently...
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What’s New in Application Virtualization 5.0 SP1 and User Experience...
As you may have seen, on Wednesday, we announced that MDOP 2013 is now available and detailed the new updates and features made to Microsoft BitLocker Administration and Monitoring (MBAM). But some of...
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