PSA: VMs with saved state from builds 10560-10567 will not restore on 10568...
Windows Insiders might hit a bug if they try to restore a VM with recent saved state. This is especially true for VMs created on Windows 8.1 and Windows 10 hosts. We recommend that you take action...
View ArticleTell Me about IT with Jeffrey Snover
Check out the first episode in the new Channel 9 series, “Tell Me about IT,” featuring Microsoft Technical Fellow Jeffrey Snover. In this episode, Jeffrey talks about his vision for Windows Server 2016...
View ArticleMicrosoft Loves Linux Deep Dive #7: Managing Linux in System Center Virtual...
This post was written by Michael Kelley, Principal PM Manager, Cloud + Enterprise team.This blog post is #7 in a series of technical posts about running and managing Linux and FreeBSD in your...
View ArticleThe New Home of DSC Documentation
I’m pleased to announce that our official PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC) documentation now has a new home on MSDN. We heard your feedback loud and clear, and began working on a...
View Article4 datacenter challenges and how Windows Server 2016 software defined...
This post was written by Ravi Rao, Principal PM Manager, Windows Server team.Over the coming weeks, we’ll be publishing more on Windows Server 2016 and the key capabilities coming in the next wave of...
View ArticleThe Incredible Past, Remarkable Present, and Extraordinary Future of ConfigMgr
I was recently out for a run and found myself thinking about how much ConfigMgr has changed since I joined the team in 2003. I thought about the date we shipped SMS 2003 – coincidentally, the exact...
View ArticleLunch Break, ep. 11: Outtakes
Season 1 of the Lunch Break series concludes with this outtakes episode from my discussion with GeekWire’s editor, Todd Bishop.In these clips, we cover topics like:Princess pencils. What do the core...
View ArticleUsing Repadmin with ADLDS and Lingering objects
Hi! Linda Taylor here from the UK Directory Services escalation team. This time on ADLDS, Repadmin, lingering objects and even PowerShell…. The other day a colleague was trying to remove a lingering...
View ArticleWhat do you need to develop server applications?
As we are working on Windows and Hyper-V Containers we are spending a bunch of time talking to people about how they develop server applications, and what we can do to make Windows Server even better...
View ArticleMicrosoft Loves Linux Deep Dive #8: Linux and UNIX Monitoring with Operations...
This post was written by Michael Kelley, Principal PM Manager, Cloud + Enterprise team.This blog post is #8 in a series of technical posts about running and managing Linux and FreeBSD in your...
View ArticleOctober updates to Azure RemoteApp
Within the month of October 2015, we released the following new features and capabilities for Azure RemoteApp: Premium and Premium Plus are two new licensing plans released, they both have a 5 user...
View ArticleHeading to Australia - to speak at Ignite Australia 2015
I am writing this on the plane as I fly towards my home town to spend a week talking about Hyper-V, Containers and Hyper-V Containers! I will also pick up my hunt of the elusive Australian unicorn:So...
View ArticleDisable User Profile Disks (UPDs) in Azure RemoteApp
Hello everyone, this is Pavithra Thiruvengadam from the Azure RemoteApp team. I am writing to let you know that as part of Azure RemoteApp service, we have the ability to disable User Profile Disks...
View ArticleClient Connector support for Windows 10 with future updates
[This post comes to us courtesy of Schumann GE from Product Group and Sandeep Biswas from Global Business Support]The first major update for Windows 10 is now available for PCs and tablets. With this...
View ArticleWhy are there two Hyper-V PowerShell modules in Windows 10?
If you use get-module in PowerShell on Windows 10 - you will see that there are now two Hyper-V PowerShell modules:There is an important reason for this.In the past we have never supported using...
View ArticleMoving to Nano Server, the new deployment option in Windows Server 2016
Over the coming weeks, we’ll be publishing more on Windows Server 2016 and the key capabilities coming in the next wave of Microsoft datacenter solutions. In this installment we’ll be looking at Nano...
View ArticleMicrosoft HPC Pack 2012 R2 Update 3 is now available
Today, we are pleased to announce the Update 3 for HPC Pack 2012 R2 is now available. With this latest release of update, HPC Pack gets into some exciting new areas like GPU support, on-premises Linux...
View ArticleHow to fully use GPU resources to run GPGPU jobs in Microsoft HPC Pack?
With the advent of the Graphical Processing Unit (GPU) as a general-purpose computing unit, more and more customers are moving towards GPU-based clusters to run their scientific and engineering...
View ArticleAnnouncing PowerShell language support for Visual Studio Code and more!
Today I am very happy to announce Developer Preview releases of two new projects that I hope will take your PowerShell development experience to the next level.Write and debug PowerShell scripts in...
View ArticleIntune Mobile Application Management for Remote Desktop
Today, we are happy to announce that customers using the Remote Desktop app on iOS 8+ and Android 4+ can now use Microsoft Intune mobile application management (MAM) capabilities to further securely...
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