Windows Azure Active Directory: Making it easier to establish Identity...
Identity Management and Access Control are anchors for virtually all critical processes, collaboration and transactions. To that end, it was no accident that Access Control was one of the very first...
View ArticleBI Professional Survey
Hi everyone,We’re doing a survey of BI Professionals and we’d love to get input from you. This survey is about tools and capabilities for SQL Server Analysis Services development. The survey is about...
View ArticleFor all of you skeptics…
We’re glad everyone enjoyed meeting our dear friend Eugene yesterday; we’ve known him for quite some time now. Of course, if you haven’t had an opportunity to meet him yet, be sure to head over to The...
View ArticleUsing Windows 8 to help mobile workers be more productive
As we’ve shared with you before, Windows 8 Enterprise has a variety of features unique to this edition of the operating system designed to address the needs of business customers. Today, I want to talk...
View ArticleFriday Miscellany #2
We recently requested feedback on native debugging (http://aka.ms/nativeenc) and your C++ build experience (http://aka.ms/cppbuildsurvey). These surveys are still open, but I wanted to share some of...
View ArticleA Primer on Apps for Office in Excel
In Office 2013, we introduced a new cloud-based application model called Apps for Office. This post describes how you can find and insert them into your workbooks using Excel 2013 and share those...
View ArticleHow to Extract MP resources from an MPB (Cloud Services MP Example)
This seems to come up quite often and my usual explanation doesn't seem to be sufficient for everybody so I’ll explain in detail here what the process is for getting MP resources from an MPB.First of...
View ArticleWindows Phone Store market expansion and new game ratings
Today we are beginning to roll out the latest in the series of regular updates to the Windows Phone Dev Center and the Windows Phone Store. These updates are designed to address issues that you have...
View ArticleHyper-V 2012 Books
The Hyper-V MVPs have been very busy lately – specifically a number of them have been heads down working on getting some great books written about Hyper-V on Windows Server 2012.Leandro Carvalho has...
View ArticleIntegration Guide for Operations Manager
The Integration Guide for Operations Manager is now available at http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/12804.system-center-2012-integration-guide-operations-manager.aspxThe purpose...
View ArticleDebugger Source Symbol Improvements to Visual Studio 2012
by Tarun Arora – see credit at the end of the postAs part of the Visual Studio 2012 Update 1, improvements have been made to the debugger for loading symbols and source. The improvements can be broken...
View ArticleIntegration Guide for Orchestrator
Integration Guide for Orchestrator is now available at http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/13185.system-center-2012-integration-guide-orchestrator.aspx.
View ArticleCloud based offering for Service Manager
Cased Dimensions recently launched a Cloud based offering for Service Manager. The offering is pushed from a Private Cloud platform where clients get the full native functionality of Service Manager...
View ArticleDebugger Source Symbol Improvements in Visual Studio 2012 Update 1
Two years ago Brian Keller sent me a piece of mail asking if I was tracking an up and coming ALM community person out of the UK for an MVP nomination: Tarun Arora. Anything that catches Mr....
View ArticleBecoming An Xperf Xpert: Part 5 Gaps of Time For Explorer.exe
Hey y’all, Mark here with another quick real world WDRAP (Windows Desktop Risk Assessment Program) post. This one also involves a time issue which seems to be a theme around here as of late. Also I've...
View ArticleTrack changes and copyediting in Word: Join Tuesday’s webinar
Have you ever received a Word document with pesky editing lines? In this week's webinar, we'll show you how to use the Review tab. Learn how to edit, track changes, and work with comments in Word 2010...
View ArticleOrchestrator and Office 365
From Jonathan Ponton http://seethruthecloud.com/using-system-center-2012-orchestrator-to-create-a-new-user-in-office-365-from-a-service-manager-service-request from the System Center 2012...
View ArticleCreate a Cloud-Based Pricing Chargeback Process
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/13310.cloud-resource-management-with-system-center-2012-service-pack-1-sp1-orchestrator-and-service-provider-foundation.aspx Technical...
View ArticleCloud Resource Management – Orchestrator and Service Provider Foundation
Describes how to use Service Provider Foundation to programmatically integrate cloud resources that Virtual Machine Manag3er (VMM) manages into existing management portals and orchestration....
View ArticleIntegration Guide for Orchestrator
Integration Guide for Orchestrator is now available at: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/13185.system-center-2012-integration-guide-orchestrator.aspx...(read more)
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