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Windows Azure AD Rights Management Admin Tools and Utilities
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over 1 year ago
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Keith Combs
Windows Azure AD Rights Management provides the ability to enable the use of digital rights management technology in organizations that subscribe to the Office 365 preview services. Office 365 Preview customers can enable rights management capabilities...
iSCSI Target Storage Providers (VDS/VSS) for Windows Server 2008
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over 1 year ago
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Keith Combs
iSCSI Target Storage Provider enables applications on a server that is connected to an iSCSI target to perform volume shadow copies of data on iSCSI virtual disks. It also enables you to manage iSCSI virtual disks by using older applications that require...
Office Deployment Tool for Click-to-Run Preview
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over 1 year ago
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Keith Combs
By default, Office 2013 installations that use Click-to-Run will download the Office product from the Internet, with full UI, and with automatic updates enabled. Some administrators will need more control beyond the default Click-to-Run installation...
Bring Your Own Corporate VM
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over 1 year ago
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Keith Combs
Raise your hand if you are getting a little sick of the phrase “consumerization of IT”. I know I am. But the concepts around it are interesting and they pose some interesting challenges for IT organizations as they are increasingly forced...
Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 Compat Cookbook - now available for download
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over 1 year ago
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Keith Combs
Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 introduce the latest operating system technology and software development platforms for use by app developers and enterprises worldwide. As part of further enhancing the security, reliability, performance, and user experience...
Just in case you want to test 85mph on the Austin’s Toll 130
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over 1 year ago
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HTC reveals new Windows 8 Phone devices for November launch
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over 1 year ago
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Keith Combs
Here’s a great video from Microsoft Windows Phone spokesperson Ben Rudolph. Here’s the infomercial. It has some pretty good views of the device. See the Windows Phone 8X specifications at http://www.htc.com/www/smartphones/htc-wp-8x...
Migrate VMware VMs to Hyper-V using a free, simple, standalone tool
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over 1 year ago
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Keith Combs
Windows Server 2012 is generally available for evaluation and purchase by all customers around the world. Additionally, there is great news for organizations that are looking for a way to migrate virtual machines hosted on VMware vSphere to the Hyper...
The Office Team reveals the new Office 365 Subscriptions
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over 1 year ago
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Keith Combs
With a single subscription, you can use Office across a wide variety of devices - everything from PCs and tablets to Macs. You can easily save to and access your documents from the cloud and personalize your experience with Office. We will update Office...
System Center 2012 SP1 Beta - tons of new features now available for testing
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over 1 year ago
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Keith Combs
The Beta of System Center 2012 Service Pack 1 (“SP1”) enables System Center customers to jointly evaluate System Center 2012 with Windows Server 2012 and Windows 8. The Beta is for evaluation purposes only and not to be used in production as described...
DirectAccess Connectivity Assistant (DCA) 2.0 - now available for download
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over 1 year ago
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Keith Combs
Microsoft DirectAccess Connectivity Assistant (DCA) 2.0 can be used by computers running Windows 7 when connecting to internal corporate networks with DirectAccess in Windows Server 2012. It improves the DirectAccess connection experience, supports one...
Windows Server 2012 and Windows 8 Group Policy spreadsheets - now available for download
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over 1 year ago
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Keith Combs
These spreadsheets list the policy settings for computer and user configurations that are included in the Administrative template files delivered with the Windows operating systems specified. You can configure these policy settings when you edit Group...
Remote Server Administration Tools (RSAT) for Windows 8 - now available for download
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over 1 year ago
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Keith Combs
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Remote Server Administration Tools for Windows 8 includes Server Manager, Microsoft Management Console (MMC) snap-ins, consoles, Windows PowerShell cmdlets and providers, and command-line tools for managing roles and features that run on Windows Server...
Samsung ATIV S website now live
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over 1 year ago
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Keith Combs
I know I did a blog post about the IFA announcement not long ago, but I wanted to bring the Samsung ATIV S website to your attention with all of the specific features and specifications. It is the global site so I don’t know what we’ll get...
System Center 2012 SP1 Beta - Supporting Windows Server 2012, Azure Virtual Machine Mgmt and more!
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over 1 year ago
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Keith Combs
Microsoft’s Private Cloud is built on the industry leading foundation of Windows Server and System Center. The System Center 2012 Service Pack 1 (SP1) update enables System Center to run on and manage the final version of Windows Server 2012, released...
Amazon Kindle Paperwhite Announced
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over 1 year ago
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Keith Combs
Today Amazon announced several Kindles. I have been using their eBook readers for quite a long time now and was very intrigued by the new Kindle Paperwhite . I have one on order. Looks like I’ll receive it around the middle of October...
NOKIA Lumia 920 and Lumia 820 Announced
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over 1 year ago
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Keith Combs
NOKIA announced the new Lumia 920 and Lumia 820 today. The 920 pictured above in gray looks pretty nice if you ask me. The changeable shells on the 820 are pretty cool, but I also like the idea of the solid 920. I’ll definitely have to go...
Windows Server 2012 is now available for download
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over 1 year ago
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For those of you that have been patiently waiting for the bits, they are now available on the MSDN and TechNet subscriber download centers. Ready to find out more? Be sure to visit the Windows Server 2012 Launch site at http://www.windows-server...
White House Releases Honey Ale Recipe under the Freedom of Information Act
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The White House finally does something I can support with my tax dollars, they brew beer. Sorry, that’s as political as I can get. Full story, directions and video at http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2012/09/01/ale-chief-white-house-beer-recipe . ...