Penny Pinching Video: Moving an Azure Website between data centers
I talked about Pinching pennies when scaling in The Cloud last week when I added jQuery lazy loading to my podcast's Website. I wanted to avoid paying any unnecessary bandwidth costs. The result was...
View ArticleInstalling ICs offline in Hyper-V
There is a great post over on the virtualization team blog about how to install the Hyper-V integration components offline. Go check it out:...
View ArticleFree Project 2013 quick start training available on demand
Whether you are a novice user of Microsoft Project 2013 or you want to learn about IT Professional or developer topics, please consider our new quick start training for Project 2013--it's free and...
View ArticleNew Ignite Webcast - Exchange eDiscovery
To sign up for this webcast please download and save the attached calendar invite below where you will find the Webcast Meeting information. Ignite Webcasts are online sessions led by Microsoft Office...
View ArticleData-linked diagrams: Creating a diagram
Yana Terukhova is a Product Marketing Manager on the Microsoft Visio team. Visio offers over 60 types of professional templates to build compelling diagrams, and organization charts are among most the...
View ArticleExcel Geek Express—otherwise known as Quick Analysis
Guest blogger Emily Warn is a writer and confirmed Excel geek. In this post, she demonstrates how to use the new Quick Analysis feature in Excel 2013 to create a spreadsheet with book sales numbers...
View ArticleSome Other PFE Blogs You’ll Want To Be Reading
Hey y’all, Mark here with some quick links for you. We have two other PFE team blogs that have been getting some steam as of late we thought we’d pass along so our fine readership can check them out...
View ArticleAn invitation to upcoming Ignite events
Our friends over at the Office 365 Technical Blog have announced that the Exchange Online Protection team is adding extra sessions to the upcoming Ignite event in San Diego. According to the...
View ArticleTechEd 2013-Jamal Malik Presents on Envisioning The Modern Datacenter
Do you remember the first TechEd you went to? I do. It was in New Orleans and I was invited to present on ISA Server 2000. I had done a lot of teaching and training before that event, but never spoke...
View ArticleTechEd 2013-Josh Adams-Yuri Diogenes-Tom Shinder on Cloud Infrastructure Design
It’s been fun introducing the sessions in the Architecture Track at TechEd North America and Europe. Now I’d like to tell you about one of the session that I’m presenting in. In the session...
View ArticleSystem Center and IntelliTrace
Over the past little while, the System Center Operations Management team and the Visual Studio IntelliTrace team have been working together to create an increasingly rich debugging experience for...
View ArticlePie in the Sky (April 19, 2013)
Quite a few links this week for your weekend reading:NodeUnix philosophy and Node.js: A brief discussion of the Unix philosophy and how it relates to Node.js.AngularJS: Let’s make a feed reader: With...
View ArticleWindows Server Essentials Integration Module for Windows Azure Backup is Now...
[Today’s post comes to us courtesy of Yang Cao and Ashish Sukhija]Hello everyone, we would like to update you on an Add-In software that is now available for Windows Server 2012 Essentials. We have...
View ArticleApp roundup: Turn it up! Music apps to rock out to
Hi, my name is Kirsten, and I’m a writer at Microsoft. My work days are filled with writing, meetings, and getting coffee in the lunch room. But after hours, I swap out my mouse and keyboard for my...
View ArticleInside Windows Phone – code samples
What Windows Phone code samples are available to you, and how do you get them? We publish a large number of code samples that cover a solid range of Windows Phone developer scenarios. In this video, we...
View ArticleSetting up Two-Factor Authentication for your Google account AND Microsoft...
I use Two-Factor Authentication for my Google Apps account and I use the Google Authenticator application on my iPhone to generate the second factor.Microsoft Accounts (formerly Live Accounts) just...
View ArticleEpisode 3 of the ‘In the Cloud’ Podcast: Enabling the Modern Workforce
In this episode I take a look at how enterprise IT can really support the modern workforce’s desire to work from any location with any device – and how organizations can embrace this trend. I touched...
View ArticleASP.NET Web API: CORS support and Attribute Based Routing Improvements
We’ve seen a huge adoption of ASP.NET Web API since its initial release. In February we shipped the ASP.NET and Web Tools 2012.2 Update– which added a number of additional enhancements to both Web API...
View ArticleWindows themes for the armchair traveler
One of the things I love most about my job is that I get to see thousands of images submitted by artists and photographers from around the world, through the Open Call project. From sweeping landscapes...
View ArticleFinding the Visual Studio Command Prompts in Visual Studio 2012
If you’re using Visual Studio 2012 on Windows 8, you may be looking for the Visual Studio Command Prompt shortcuts. These shortcuts are installed by Visual Studio to run scripts that configure the...
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