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A First Look at Windows 8.1
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6 months ago
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Windows 8.1 will advance the bold vision set forward with Windows 8 to deliver the next generation of PCs, tablets, and a range of industry devices, and the experiences customers — both consumers and businesses alike — need and will just expect moving...
Hyper-V: A Platform for Building the Largest Public and Private Clouds
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7 months ago
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Keith Combs
Hyper-V 3.0 in many ways is the crown jewel of our enterprise virtualization and private cloud strategy and is the heart of where many of the improvements in our flagship Server OS reside. So we should probably talk about what has improved since our previous...
Microsoft Unveils Xbox One
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7 months ago
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Keith Combs
REDMOND, Wash. — May 21, 2013 — A new vision for the future comes to life today as Microsoft Corp. unveils Xbox One , the all-in-one gaming and entertainment system created for today and the next generation. At Microsoft headquarters in Redmond, Wash...
It happened again. My condolences
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7 months ago
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Keith Combs
By now you’ve likely heard about the tornado disaster today. Oklahoma City isn’t that far north of Dallas/Ft. Worth. Today an EF5 hit that area and destroyed the lives of thousands of people. Nature is a powerful force and it seems the radical...
IaaS Architecture Guide - now available for download
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7 months ago
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This document provides customers with the necessary guidance to develop solutions for a Microsoft private cloud infrastructure in accordance with the IaaS PLA patterns that are identified for use with the Windows Server 2012 operating system. This document...
Exchange Server 2013 Management Pack - now available for download
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7 months ago
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Keith Combs
The Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 Management Pack provides comprehensive service health information for your Exchange organization. The Exchange 2013 Management Pack is engineered for organizations that include servers running Exchange 2013. The key...
Kerberos Configuration Manager for SQL Server - now available for download
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7 months ago
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Keith Combs
Kerberos authentication provides a highly secure method to authenticate client and server entities (security principals) on a network. To use Kerberos authentication with SQL Server, a Service Principal Name (SPN) must be registered with Active Directory...
System Center 2012 - Live Q&A on May 21, 2013 - Register Now!
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7 months ago
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Keith Combs
Microsoft Virtual Academy (MVA) has published a series of great courses covering Microsoft System Center 2012 SP1 over the last several weeks. This content has been so well-received that we’ve asked Senior Technical Evangelist Symon Perriman and Senior...
This is both cool and scary - X-47B Drone Launch from the USS George H.W. Bush
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7 months ago
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I can see it already. A remake of the classic “ The Final Countdown ” with drones instead of Tomcats.
Nokia Announces the Lumia 928 - Available for $99 on May 16th
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7 months ago
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Keith Combs
The Nokia Lumia 928 will be available on May 16th at VerizonWireless.com and at your local Verizon Wireless Store for a price of $99 after a $50 mail in rebate. Also, a new 2-year service agreement is required. As a sweet bonus – for a limited time –...
Calling All Birders - Identify This North Texas Hawk !!!
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7 months ago
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Last summer Sean Jr. and I witnessed a hawk swooping down and grabbing a Texas Spiny Lizard from the flower bed next to us. This was mere feet from us and as you might imagine, seeing nature in action like this left an impression on Sean and I. He’s...
Windows Azure for IT Professionals Jump Start - free registration now open
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7 months ago
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Keith Combs
Make Windows Azure Your Datacenter! This Jump Start will help you understand how you can use Windows Azure Infrastructure Services, such as Virtual Machines and Virtual Networks, to migrate, extend, run, manage and monitor common workloads in the cloud...