XDT (XML Document Transform) released on codeplex.com
In Visual Studio 2010 we introduced a simple and straight forward method of transforming web.config during publishing/packaging. This support is called XML Document Transform, aka XDT. It allows you to...
View ArticleTech Tuesday Live Twitter Chat – Toshiba KIRAbook #winchat
Toshiba announced last Thursday that they have launched KIRA - a new premium brand for consumers. The first device that is part of the new KIRA line up is the KIRAbook, an Ultrabook featuring...
View ArticleOffice 365 Small Business Premium: Looking professional
Author: Jon Orton_MSFT Originally published to the Office 365 Preview blog. Regardless of the size of your business, it’s important to make a good impression on potential and current customers. When...
View ArticleUnable to connect to a printer using a CNAME record
Good morning AskPerf! My name is Sandeep Bhatia and I work with Networking team here in Microsoft Support. In today’s post, we will discuss Print issues when using a CNAME on Windows 2008 R2 Server,...
View ArticleF# and QuantLib: An Introduction
A Guest Blog in conjunction with Alexandre Radicchi (alex.radi@gmail.com)F# is an attractive language to use in Financial Engineering because of its functional-first methodology, succinctness, strong...
View ArticleOfficial Tumblr app comes to Windows Phone 8
The official Tumblr app just made its debut on Windows Phone 8 this morning. First impression: it’s a great looking app that takes advantage of many of Windows Phone’s unique capabilities. Download it...
View ArticleKnow vSpeak? Learn to be Bilingual
Gordie Howe once famously said, “All hockey players are bilingual. They know English and profanity.” No doubt, there are times when most IT Pros feel similarly gifted (like when a production server...
View ArticleMAD CATZ Cyborg R.A.T. 9 Gaming Mouse: Exotic PC Peripheral for the Enthusiast
I recently got my hands on a Cyborg R.A.T. 9 mouse by MAD CATZ, and was curious to see what this unique pointing device would be like to use, and how it would look on my desk. When I opened the box, I...
View ArticleSessions from MMS 2013 Now Available
Greetings AskCore fans. I thought I would start creating a blog for a subset of the videos/sessions available at each of the conferences that Microsoft has throughout the year. These sessions will be...
View ArticleNew update available for MS13-036
Portuguese (Brazil) , Русский Today we released a new update to replace KB2823324, which was originally made available through MS13-036 . As we previously discussed , we stopped distributing this...
View ArticleFree Book Choice with Audible and Windows 8
I love books. I love them so much that there was a time in my life where I helped the school librarian every day instead of going to recess. That period of time lasted for almost two years. Even now,...
View ArticleIn exclusive, Audible offers free audiobook for Windows Phone 8
Looking for better ways to kill time on the daily commute? Many people swear by digital audiobooks, and today Audible, one of the medium’s pioneers, launched an offer exclusive for Windows 8 and...
View ArticleFree Microsoft Exam jump start for: Delivering Continuous Value with Visual...
There has been a ton of excitement around the new ALM course and exams. Responding to this two of the ALM MVPs Anthony Borton and Steven Borg are offering a FREE jump start for Exam 70-498: Delivering...
View ArticleUpdate on System Center 2012 SP1 Update Rollup 2 (UR2) for Virtual Machine...
Posted on behalf of Carmen SummersGreetings All,This is Carmen Summers and I lead System Center Cloud and Datacenter Management Sustained Engineering. I wanted to take the time to announce we are...
View ArticleApplication Management-Example-Deploying a Service to Your Private Cloud...
Hey readers, I hope you had a great time at MMS 2013 (if you were able to make it!). If you did make it, you may have seen this service template featured on the big stage during Brad Anderson’s...
View ArticleSC 2012 SP1 – DPM: Windows 2012 VM Mobility – Uninterrupted Data Protection
One of the important features enabled in Windows 2012 is the ability to live migrate VMs anywhere. Whether the VM migrating within a cluster, across clusters, standalone to standalone or standalone to...
View ArticleOffice 365 Small Business Premium: No IT expertise required
Author: Jon Orton_MSFT Originally published to the Office 365 Preview blog. Small businesses don’t have IT departments. Most don’t even have a dedicated IT person. So they need software that is simple...
View ArticleGetting attachments in a mail app
Mail apps can now use a new set of properties and methods in the JavaScript API for Office and Exchange Web Services callback tokens to get the attachments of a message or appointment in an Exchange...
View ArticleMicrosoft Fixit for Printing UPDATED for Windows 7 & Windows Server 2008 R2
Hello folks. This is a quick post to inform you that the “Microsoft Fixit for Printing” is now live with .msi packages for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. We know a lot of you have been asking...
View ArticleGarage Series: Workarounds for customizing your new Office
This week marks the second in a three part series, as hosts Jeremy Chapman and Yoni Kirsh, explore potential workarounds for your Office configuration, from removing and blocking applications such as...
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