Microsoft Virtual Academy: Service Manager Data Warehouse and Reporting
I recently (well, that’s relative!) recorded a series of sessions on extending, customizing, and using the Service Manager data warehouse and reporting. Those are now posted on Microsoft Virtual...
View ArticlePenny Pinching in the Cloud: Enabling New Relic Performance Monitoring on...
I've been looking for ways to save money running my (now 12) websites in the cloud lately. Getting insights from logs has been helpful, but I really want more details as to what my app is doing so that...
View ArticleThe new Office Garage Series: Click-to-Run Customization and Deployment Deep...
In the new Office Garage Series for IT Pros, the last two episodes of the three part series for the Click-to-Run Customization and Deployment Deep Dive discuss workarounds, and integration and...
View ArticleWinning with process control and knowledge management in Project Online
Bassier, Bergmann & Kindler (BB&K) is one of Germany’s largest digital media agencies and works with many major brands across much of Europe. Distributed clients means decentralized teams, so...
View ArticleOutlook.com: 400 million active accounts, Hotmail upgrade complete and more...
We're excited to announce that we've completed upgrading all Hotmail customers to Outlook.com. Coupled with the growing organic excitement for Outlook.com, this has pushed us to over 400 million active...
View ArticleAngry Birds relaunches on Windows Phone with 100 new levels—and it’s free...
It’s the rebirth of a classic. Rovio announced on their blog today that they’ve published a new version of Angry Birds for Windows Phone that adds 100 new levels—for more than 400 in all. The Windows...
View ArticleLocalizing a LightSwitch Application (Heinrich Wendel)
With Visual Studio Update 2 we finally added a functionality a lot of you (especially outside the US) have been waiting for, the ability to localize a LightSwitch application into multiple languages....
View ArticleTechEd Primer
I had a great conversation with some folks via Twitter last week on what they should expect at TechEd as this was their first trip. This will be my ninth TechEd and I sometimes forget what it’s like...
View ArticleInstalling WSUS on Windows Server 2012 with PowerShell
There is a really valuable blog post on the Hey Scripting Guy! blog that explains how to install and configure WSUS on Windows Server 2012 using PowerShell. Enjoy!...
View ArticleNow in the Store: Star Trek App and Untappd
Romulan ale, anybody? A pair of official apps focused on two of life’s greatest pleasures—Star Trek and beer—landed in the Windows Phone Store today. Both are Windows Phone 8 only. Check them out and...
View ArticleData Visualization for IT: System Center Ops Manager Dashboards
One of the most important things an IT department can do for itself is demonstrate its value to business leaders clearly and regularly. The easiest way to do this is with a dynamic, real-time dashboard...
View ArticleMicrosoft Invites You to Join the Cloud Conversation!
Editor's Note: This post comes from Mark Miller. The 3rd Annual Future of Cloud Computing Survey has just been launched by North Bridge and GigaOM Research.We are participating in this survey because...
View ArticleInside Windows Phone – Data binding
Data binding is one of the fundamental concepts used for good Windows Phone application design, but can be difficult to grasp for newcomers. The core concept is this: No one wants to manually update...
View ArticleVP Brad Anderson's Blog Article on OpsMgr 2012 Dashboards
Our Corporate Vice President Brad Anderson recently started blogging on TechNet. He covers various topics such as Private Cloud and Product Features released in Windows Server and the System Center...
View ArticleNew whitepaper: Evaluating Microsoft's protection performance and capabilities
In order to evaluate the performance of their protection provider, customers need to rely on information that goes beyond what external certifications and comparative tests can provide. Today we’re...
View ArticleMVP Pro Speakers Series:Tips & Tricks to Using the Visual Studio Authoring...
David Allen gave a great presentation today on Using the Visual Studio Authoring Extensions. If you would like to view the audio of the presentation, you may do so by clicking on the video box below....
View ArticlePublic Folders and Exchange Online
“You mean… this is really happening?”Last November we gave you a teaser about public folders in the new Exchange. We explained how public folders were given a lot of attention to bring their...
View ArticleUsing PowerShell to configure live migration networks in a Hyper-V cluster
A long time ago, Didier Van Hoye asked me how to configure the networks that should be used for live migration by a Hyper-V cluster using nothing but PowerShell. Unfortunately, I never got around to...
View ArticleDiscovering the most popular items in a document library in SharePoint Online...
The Grid is full of Office 365 experts that are brimming with great information. The Grid User Post blog series will expose some of The Grid's best content to the entire Office 365 Community. Are you...
View ArticleFinally a Windows Task Manager Performance tab blog!
Good morning AskPerf! How many times have we looked at Windows Task Manager and wondered what the values on the Performance tab meant? Why do they not add up? What is the difference between Free and...
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