Michael Frazier, Sr. Vice-President of Communications and Digital Media for the National September 11 Memorial & Museum share with us their app they created for Windows 8. Explore the names inscribed on the 9/11 Memorial at the World Trade Center...

Hi Everyone, Recently, we announced lot of enhancements in Microsoft Azure. One of them being the cross-VNET connectivity between same subscription or different subscriptions. You can read more about it here http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/azure...

Microsoft released Windows Server 2012 R2 in October of last year. And ever since release it has been our flagship datacenter operating system, also known as Cloud OS. Like many of you I use Windows Server 2012 R2 for building virtual infrastructure....

Hi All, Today, I am sharing couple of useful resources around Windows Azure available on Microsoft Download site. First one is Windows Azure Datacenter IP Ranges…This file contains the Compute IP address ranges (including SQL ranges) used by the Windows...

Few times I noticed that there is a text box floating around desktop and there is no way to identify or trace by looking at it. This is the text box…. So, how to find what is that box. Well, there is a utility in Sysinternals Tools called Process Explorer...

Hi Everyone, In this post I am going to talk about a 3rd party Active Directory Management Tool from Stellar. I have been evaluating this tool recently & thought to share this with you all. There are many tools available in the market today that IT...

Top Support Solutions have been updated with new information. Top Support Solutions for Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Top Support Solutions for System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager Top Support Solutions for System Center Endpoint Protection 2012...

Hi Everyone, Recently while working for a customer, I got a query around generating a real time report of all the objects in the maintenance mode. They wanted to schedule a maintenance mode report so that every time they run a report that should display...

We recently published the new Windows Server Test Lab Guide for building your own internal labs for demo purposes. If you are looking forward for testing scenarios on Windows Server 2012 R2, this guide provides a good reference. This Microsoft Test Lab...

Hi Everyone, Recently, we announced the availability of Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 and Windows Server 2012 TechNet Library documentation available as a PDF on Microsoft Download Center. We highly recommend that you should always rely on the latest...

Get the all new Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V Component Architecture posters. Provides a visual reference for understanding key Hyper-V technologies in Windows Server 2012 R2 and focuses on Generation 2 virtual machines, Hyper-V with virtual hard disk...

Infrastructure-as-a-Service Product Line Architecture Fabric Architecture Guide http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=38817 This document provides customers with the necessary guidance to develop solutions for a Microsoft private cloud...

The Windows Azure Training Kit includes a comprehensive set of technical content including hands-on labs and presentations that are designed to help you learn how to use the latest Windows Azure features and services. August 2013 Update The August 2013...

Hi Everyone, We have recently started the DPE India Blog for Announcements from Developer & Platform Evangelism Team in India. The blog will focus upon the activities from DPE India team targeting Developers, IT Professionals & Students. Here...

The Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit (MAP) is an agentless, automated, multi-product planning and assessment tool for quicker and easier desktop, server and cloud migrations. MAP provides detailed readiness assessment reports and executive proposals...

Introduces Windows Azure for developers and IT pros. Summarizes benefits such as global coverage and extensive language support. Provides a description of current services by category: app services, data services, compute, networking, and store. Depicts...

Many customers begin their virtualization journeys’ by virtualizing the low intensity, less critical workloads, such as File & Print Servers, or Web Servers, but as customer confidence in virtualization grows, customers need to understand the impact...

The Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit (EMET) is designed to help prevent hackers from gaining access to your system. Software vulnerabilities and exploits have become an everyday part of life. Virtually every product has to deal with them and consequently...

Hi IT Professionals, I want to share with you a complete list of sessions/labs related to Management (System Center, Windows Intune, Hyper-V, MDOP, and MDT) from TechEd NA 2013. Thanks to Cleber Marques & our community for sharing the list · Keynote...

I have multiple Azure Subscriptions configured with my Microsoft Account (formerly Live ID) Some time back couple of subscriptions were disabled due to excessive usage, which is fine. However, at this time when I tried to manage the same using PowerShell...

The downloadable files listed on this page contain the cross-component documentation for the Technical Scenarios for System Center 2012 Service Pack 1 (SP1). The available downloads include: System Requirements for System Center 2012 SP1 - last updated...

Hi Everyone, During the month of April & May, we delivered Windows Azure IaaS – IT Camps in 6 cities focusing on Windows Azure Virtual Machines, Windows Azure Virtual Network. As promised during our events, I am sharing some of the essential resources...

Hi All,   Last week one of our customers was trying to install System Center 2012 SP1 Configuration Manager. During the installation customer encountered an issue with SQL Server when using Named Instance instead of Default Instance. MSSQLSERVER...

The enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit (EMET) is designed to help prevent hackers from gaining access to your system. The new EMET 4.0 (Beta) features provides a preview on what’s in store for the final version. Please note that this is a "Beta"...

During my recent TechEd India 2013, Pune event, I was asked a question during our Stump the Speaker Session, the question was about what all Microsoft Server software is supported in Windows Azure Virtual Machines environment. And I have responded to...