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Anyone get a hovercraft for Christmas?
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See http://www.mercier-jones.com/index.html for more information and the cool gallery. I’d like a red one.
Using Windows 8 Hyper-V Overview–now available for download
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11 months ago
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Keith Combs
Client Hyper-V® is the virtualization technology built into Windows® 8. Client Hyper-V is the same virtualization technology previously available only in Windows Server®. A similar functionality in Windows 7 is called Windows XP Mode. Client Hyper-V enables...
Creating a Windows To Go Flash drive
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11 months ago
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Keith Combs
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Windows To Go is a new feature in Windows 8 Enterprise Edition that enables you to provision a USB drive with a complete, managed Windows 8 system image. You can insert the USB drive (known as a Windows To Go workspace) into any Windows 7 or Windows 8...
Have you been naughty or nice?
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11 months ago
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Merry Christmas! Hope everyone has a great holiday! See you next year.
Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit (MAP) v8.0 - now ready for download
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over 1 year ago
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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...
Microsoft Cloud Scale - By The Numbers
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over 1 year ago
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Keith Combs
From time to time Microsoft VP, Frank Shaw, likes to do a blog post that has some numbers to indicate the scope of what we do at Microsoft. We thought you might enjoy a few numbers around our Cloud services. If the graphic above is too small...
Windows Server 2012 Remote Desktop Services Demonstration Videos now Available
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over 1 year ago
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Keith Combs
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The Remote Desktop Services team just published some great videos explaining the new Remote Desktop Services available in Windows Server 2012. You’ll find new videos on the Virtual Desktop Infrastructure, VDI wizard, RDS VDI Deployment, and more...
Using Push Notifications, SMS and Email in Your Mobile Application
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over 1 year ago
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Keith Combs
There are also two fantastic tutorials available in the mobile dev center. The first provides a walkthrough of the basics of configuring your iOS app for push and sending push notifications. The second details how to use a table to store APNS...
Microsoft Management Summit (MMS) 2013 Registration Now Open
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over 1 year ago
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The Microsoft Management Summit (MMS) brings together the brightest IT professionals from around the world to increase their technical expertise through deep hands-on training, best-practice sharing, and interaction with innovators in desktop, device...
Imagine Cup Winners Announced
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over 1 year ago
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Keith Combs
At the Social Innovation Summit in Silicon Valley, Microsoft announced the five winners of the second annual Imagine Cup Grant. We’re particularly excited as four of the winners developed their apps on Windows Azure. Grant winners all participated in...
Windows Server 2012 and Hyper-V Replica Take On Hurricane Sandy
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over 1 year ago
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When the winds and waves of Hurricane Sandy bore down ferociously on New York City, at least two Microsoft SMB customers were ready. Microsoft partner WorkITsafe had just helped these customers upgrade to the Windows Server 2012 operating system with...
What to Buy With PowerBall Winnings - The Batmobile
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I can’t believe this is actually for sale . Wow.