Windows AzureConf this Tuesday
This Tuesday, April 23, we’ll be hosting Windows AzureConf– a free online event for and by the Windows Azure community. It will be streamed online from 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM PST via Channel 9, and you can...
View ArticleConsumer Survey: 85% of Americans are concerned about their online privacy;...
At Microsoft, we take our responsibilities for protecting your privacy very seriously. It’s a priority across all our businesses, and an area where we continue to work closely with others throughout...
View ArticleChoosing a Hash and Encryption Algorithm for a new PKI?
I frequently get asked to consult on building out new Public Key Infrastructures here in Premier Field Engineering. One of the things that I get asked commonly is “How do I choose a key length and Hash...
View ArticleThreats at home and work
People act differently at home and at work, so it’s no surprise that malware also acts differently at home and in enterprise. As seen in the latest edition of the Microsoft Security Intelligence...
View ArticleJoin us for Tuesday’s Webinar: Get started with Visio
Learn about Visio, a program designed to help you make diagrams for flowcharts, room layouts, timelines, organizational charts and a lot more. We’ll start at the key of Visio: understanding how its...
View ArticleLet’s Call it a Wrap on the PASS Business Analytics Conference
Looking back at this month’s inaugural PASS Business Analytics Conference in Chicago, we can’t believe what an amazing experience it has been! This event included 70+ sessions over the course of two...
View ArticleNew Wireless Mobile Mouse 3500 Artist Editions Announced
Today we are announcing new Artist Editions of the Wireless Mobile Mouse 3500 featuring 6 unique designs by artists Dana McClure, Deanne Cheuk, Kustaa Saksi, Matt Lyon, Joy Deangdeelert Cho and Si...
View ArticleCreate Dashboard Reports with LightSwitch, WebAPI and...
OverviewApplications are creating and consuming more data than every before. With so much data, how can your users quickly spot trends and get an overview of what’s important? Just as your car presents...
View ArticlePenny Pinching Video: Moving my Website's Images to the Azure CDN (and using...
I talked about Pinching pennies when scaling in The Cloud last week when I added jQuery lazy loading to my podcast's Website. Next, I moved my website to the same data center as my SQL Database (in...
View ArticleTroubleshooting Walkthrough of ConfigMgr 2012 SP1 Provisioning
Buz Brodin| Senior Support Escalation EngineerHi everyone, Buz Brodin here. I recently had an interesting AMT provisioning case with System Center 2012 Configuration Manager where we hit multiple...
View ArticleNew HOTFIX available: Some newly added access accounts for a package may be...
We published a new hotfix today for Configuration Manager 2007 Service Pack 2 to correct the following issue:Consider the following scenario: You create a package in Microsoft System Center...
View ArticleHOTFIX: Automatic client updates are unsuccessful for Configuration Manager...
We published a new hotfix today for ConfigMgr 2012 SP1 to correct the following issue:Consider the following scenario: You enable the Upgrade client automatically when new client updates are available...
View ArticleLearn IntelliTrace
There’s a lot of good content on IntelliTrace and we’ve grabbed a few links here to have in one place. If you’ve got some time and want to get to know more about IntelliTrace in Visual Studio these are...
View ArticleHP StoreEasy and Windows Server 2012 SMB Performance
Hi folks, Ned here again with a quickie post. HP recently released their latest file server SMB testing results, where they used FSCT and IOMeter to collect performance and scalability data with...
View ArticleService Manager 2012 SP1 secondary Management Server–Cannot set availability...
Just a heads up, in Service Manager 2012 SP1, we made certain changes to custom actions in setup which renders fresh installs of the secondary management server incapable of connecting to the...
View ArticleUpdated: Exchange Server 2013 Deployment Assistant
We’re happy to announce updates to the Exchange Server 2013 Deployment Assistant! We’ve updated the Deployment Assistant to include the following new scenarios:Upgrading from Exchange 2007 to Exchange...
View ArticleWindows Server/System Center MVP Speaker Series Starting This Week!
We are launching a new Windows Server/System Center MVP Speaker Series this week! This continuing education series of presentations will be delivered by some of our MVPs on various topics around...
View ArticleWindows Server/System Center MVP Speaker Series Starting This Week!...
This is a post that I just put up on the System Center blog, but I also wanted to post it here for better visibility because one of the topics this week is on using Operations Manager to provide data...
View ArticleWindows Server/System Center MVP Speaker Series Starting This Week!...
This is a post that I just put up on the System Center blog, but I also wanted to post it here for better visibility because one of the topics this week is about automating Hyper-V administration using...
View ArticleExposed: A Blog Comment Spammer's Source Template
I've been getting a LOT of Blog Comment Spam lately, just in the at two weeks. I run all my comments through the Akismet Service, and I pay for it. However, this particular flavor of spam has been...
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