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Check Out Our Favorite Tech Support Stories
We asked for your craziest and most harrowing tales from tech support and you delivered! The time has now come to vote for your favorite. From unsecured server rooms, to excessive use of thumb drives,...
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Hybrid Cloud: The Best of Both Worlds - The Essentials of Hybrid Cloud
This blog post is authored by Joe Weinman, author of Cloudonomics: The Business Value of Cloud Computing, and the forthcoming book Digital Disciplines, which explores four business strategies to...
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Hyper-V receives Red Hat certification
If you run Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) as a guest OS on Hyper-V, you will be interested to know that Red Hat certifies Hyper-V as a supported hypervisor for running RHEL. The support services you...
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ISE Module Browser - A new way to manage your PowerShell modules
High quality reusable modules, like LEGO pieces, enable IT Pros to build automation solutions in minutes! Where can I find those high quality reusable modules? One way is to use PowerShellGet, a set of...
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Go Deep: Sign up for a Focused Pre-Day Session at Microsoft Ignite
Ignite—the premier Microsoft tech conference—is definitely going to be intense. Because that’s the way IT pros like it.There’s an easy way to step it up and learn as much as you can in the shortest...
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PowerShell Script Analyzer: Static Code analysis for Windows PowerShell...
Introduction:Windows Management Framework 5.0 Preview February 2015 includes the addition of a new Windows PowerShell Module called PSScriptAnalyzer. This is a static code checker for Windows...
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Be Prepared for Tomorrow’s Business: Prioritize Your Windows Server 2003...
Although 75% of IT professionals are aware that support for Windows Server 2003 is ending July 14, 2015, there are still a lot of questions about just how urgent the need to move is. Deprioritizing...
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Be Prepared for Tomorrow’s Business: Prioritize Your Windows Server 2003...
Although 75% of IT professionals are aware that support for Windows Server 2003 is ending July 14, 2015, there are still a lot of questions about just how urgent the need to move is. Deprioritizing...
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Fuel Your IT Strategy at These Breakout Sessions
A gathering like Ignite, the premier Microsoft tech conference, is the perfect place to get the big-picture overview of where technology is heading. And going to Ignite is also the fastest way to learn...
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Enabling Secure Boot on Linux with the Windows Technical Preview
When we released Windows Server 2012 R2 / Windows 8.1 and introduced the world to Generation 2 virtual machines - we were only able to run Windows guest operating systems. In the following months we...
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The Endpoint Zone, February Recap: Conditional Access, ARA, & Ignite
In this episode of The Endpoint Zone, we take a look at the value and application of the new Conditional Access features in Intune (also discussed on the last ITC podcast, and written about in detail...
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What We’re Doing & Why We’ll Do it: Our Enterprise Mobility World Views
One of the things I love discussing with other organizations are their world views on where a particular market or industry segment will go in the future and why. Every organization has strategies...
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Rethinking Enterprise Storage – Accelerating and Broadening Disaster Recovery...
Recently, Microsoft published a book titled Rethinking Enterprise Storage – A Hybrid Cloud Model– the book takes a close look at an innovative infrastructure storage architecture called hybrid cloud...
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Are You in Danger of Getting “Boxed-In”?
The rapid pace of innovation in cloud technologies has led to an interesting dichotomy for most organizations. On one hand, companies are able to take advantage of new capabilities in record time,...
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Remote Desktop app for Windows Phone now supports Gateway and Remote Resources
My name is David Bélanger, and I work in the Remote Desktop team. Today, I am excited to announce that the Remote Desktop app for Windows Phone 8.1 is coming out of preview. Version 8.1.8 contains two...
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Checking and Correcting Virtual Hard Disk Fragmentation
With both dynamically expanding and differencing virtual hard disks - the following pattern is used when writing data:Check to see if data has already been written to this area of the diskIf yes -...
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Announcing new Compute Intensive instances
Today we are announcing two new compute intensive instances: A10 and A11. These new instances have the same performance optimizations as the existing A8 and A9 instances, but do not include the...
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How Hyper-V Backup Got Better in 2012 R2 (but now requires a SCSI controller)
Hyper-V has always provided the ability to backup all running virtual machines from the host operating system, without incurring any downtime for the virtual machines being backed up. To do this it...
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Azure Batch Client Library is updated to V1.2
Version 1.2 of the Azure Batch Client Library has been released on nuget and will require Azure Storage Client library 4.0.0 if any of the FileStaging features are used. If your application uses a...
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Microsoft Cloud Platform System: Storage Performance Overview Now Available
Guest post by Dan Lovinger, Principal Software EngineerHi everyone, I’m Dan Lovinger, a software and performance engineer on the Windows Server team. With the availability of the Microsoft Cloud...
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