Tip of the Day
Tiny amounts of knowledge for a fast paced world!
Tip of the Day: Linux in Windows
Today’s Tip… Hopefully you have already heard the announcement that Windows 10 will have Bash on...
Author: Shannon Gowen Date: 07/13/2016
Tip of the Day: Windows 10 Anniversary Update
Today’s Tip… What are the big ticket items coming in Windows 10’s Anniversary Update? Windows Hello...
Author: Shannon Gowen Date: 07/12/2016
Tip of the Day: Microsoft Surface Deployment Accelerator
Today’s Tip… Know anyone looking for a quick and easy way to image a bunch of Surfaces? Why not...
Author: Shannon Gowen Date: 07/11/2016
Tip of the Day: Windows 10 Branching
Today’s Tip… Are you ready to talk LTSB, CB, and CBB? If not, here are a couple of links to help you...
Author: Shannon Gowen Date: 07/08/2016
Tip of the Day: Windows 10 Roadmap
Today’s Tip… Stumbled on this website and wanted to share it. The roadmap of what Microsoft has...
Author: Shannon Gowen Date: 07/07/2016
(SQL) Tip of the Day: Improving Azure DW Insert Performance
Today’s Tip… We have had a few cases recently with users concerned with their write performance on...
Author: Shannon Gowen Date: 07/06/2016
(SQL) Tip of the Day: Import AdventureWorks to SQL Azure
Today’s Tip… Steps to import AdventureWorks database to SQL Azure :- New portal has sample database...
Author: Shannon Gowen Date: 07/05/2016
Tip of the Day: Demystifying Software Defined Networking Terms – Datacenter Hardware Technologies
Today’s Tip… In today’s installment of the Demystifying… series, we look at…………………… Part 5:...
Author: Shannon Gowen Date: 07/01/2016
Tip of the Day: Demystifying Software Defined Networking Terms - Network Isolation, Encapsulation, and Addressing
Today’s Tip… n today’s installment of the Demystifying… series, we look at network isolation,...
Author: Shannon Gowen Date: 06/30/2016
Tip of the Day: Demystifying Software Defined Networking Terms - The Cloud Compass: SDN Data Flows
Today’s Tip… Today’s tip continues the series, Demystifying Software Defined Networking Terms with...
Author: Shannon Gowen Date: 06/29/2016
Tip of the Day: Demystifying Software Defined Networking Terms - The Components
Today’s Tip… Today’s tip continues the series, Demystifying Software Defined Networking Terms. In...
Author: Shannon Gowen Date: 06/28/2016
Tip of the Day: Demystifying Software Defined Networking Terms - The Concepts
Today’s Tip… The Cloud Datacenter and Software Defined Networking comes with a dizzying array of...
Author: Shannon Gowen Date: 06/27/2016
(Cloud) Tip of the Day: Running Azure automation with an MSDN Subscription
Today’s Tip… When running Azure automation with an MSDN Subscription, make sure you use an Azure AD...
Author: Shannon Gowen Date: 06/24/2016
(Cloud) Tip of the Day: List of users and assigned licenses
Today’s Tip… A while ago in another series of tips, I provided a lot of information around managing...
Author: Shannon Gowen Date: 06/23/2016
(Cloud) Tip of the Day: How to get Tenant ID using Azure AD PowerShell
Today’s Tip… Sometimes, you need to get the TenantID of an Azure AD or Office 365 tenant. This is...
Author: Shannon Gowen Date: 06/22/2016
(Cloud) Tip of the Day: 100k Azure AD syncing customers and growing!
Today’s Tip… (Data taken on 4/13/2016) Here is a pretty cool milestone. As of last week we have hit...
Author: Shannon Gowen Date: 06/21/2016
(Cloud) Tip of the Day: Deprecation of DirSync
Today’s Tip… Now that Azure AD Connect has been generally available for a while and supports...
Author: Shannon Gowen Date: 06/20/2016
(Cloud) Tip of the Day: Public Previews, General Availability, and Build 2016 Announcements
Today’s Tip… Microsoft Azure Storage Explorer preview: March update:...
Author: Shannon Gowen Date: 06/17/2016
(Cloud) Tip of the Day: Compliance updates for Azure public cloud
Today’s Tip… We’re adding more certification coverage to our Azure portfolio, so regulated customers...
Author: Shannon Gowen Date: 06/16/2016
(Cloud) Tip of the Day: Azure Backup to support IaaS VM v2 is in Public Preview
Today’s Tip… Azure VM Backup allows you automatically schedule backups of you Azure Virtual Machines...
Author: Shannon Gowen Date: 06/15/2016
Tip of the Day: FREE Windows 10 Deployment and Management Lab Kit Available
Today’s Tip… Did you know that Microsoft offers a free kit on TechNet that includes a pre-configured...
Author: Shannon Gowen Date: 06/14/2016
Tip of the Day: What's New in Windows 10
Today’s Tip… This is probably the most frequent question on aliases, forums, Yammer, etc. So what is...
Author: Shannon Gowen Date: 06/13/2016
Tip of the Day: Splitting a WIM
Today’s Tip… Working with Windows 10 Beta customers, I have received multiple questions on how...
Author: Shannon Gowen Date: 06/10/2016
Tip of the Day: Previously Hard to Locate, but EXTREMELY Valuable Windows 10 Links are now Easily Found
Today’s Tip… I have been communicating with some awesome contacts in the Content World about Windows...
Author: Shannon Gowen Date: 06/09/2016
Tip of the Day: Adapter for SP3 Docking Station to Fit Your SP4
Today’s Tip… Do you already purchase a docking station for your Surface Pro 3, but now own the...
Author: Shannon Gowen Date: 06/08/2016
(SQL) Tip of the Day: Introducing SQL Azure H Series DTU Extensions
Today’s Tip… Need that extra boost for a specific query you are running but don’t want to fully...
Author: Shannon Gowen Date: 06/07/2016
(SQL) Tip of the Day: Basic Performance Troubleshooting for Azure Data Warehouse
Today’s Tip… Azure Data Warehouse can be a daunting but powerful tool for working with large amounts...
Author: Shannon Gowen Date: 06/06/2016
(SQL) Tip of the Day: Clear the Proc Cache in SQL Azure
Today’s Tip… You can clear an Azure SQL Database plan cache using this new option similar to running...
Author: Shannon Gowen Date: 06/03/2016
(SQL) Tip of the Day: Tracking queries via Query Store
Today’s Tip… We discussed a way yesterday to get the query ID of a query in your database’s Query...
Author: Shannon Gowen Date: 06/02/2016
(SQL) Tip of the Day: List failing Queries using Query Store
Today’s Tip… With modern programming systems such as Entity Framework or LINQ we are able to query...
Author: Shannon Gowen Date: 06/01/2016
Tip of the Day: Message Analyzer 1.4
Today’s Tip… On March 25th, we announced the Message Analyzer 1.4 release, which specifically...
Author: Shannon Gowen Date: 05/31/2016
Tip of the Day: Setting up Port Mirroring to Capture Mirrored Traffic on a Hyper-V Virtual Machine
Today’s Tip… In a typical (non-promiscuous) capture, you are only seeing communications from the...
Author: Shannon Gowen Date: 05/30/2016
Tip of the Day: Network Forensics with Windows DNS Analytical Logging
Today’s Tip… Yesterday’s tip discussed some of the new analytics available for Windows Server 2016...
Author: Shannon Gowen Date: 05/27/2016
Tip of the Day: Using DNS Analytical Logging
Today’s Tip… Just when you thought DNS could not get any better there are several new features and...
Author: Shannon Gowen Date: 05/26/2016
(Cloud) Tip of the Day: Upgrade from DirSync to Azure AD Connect
Today’s Tip… The Azure AD Synchronization Tool or also called DirSync will soon be deprecated and...
Author: Shannon Gowen Date: 05/25/2016
(Cloud) Tip of the Day: Upgrade your E3 trial tenant to E5
Today’s Tip… Huge updates come to the latest installment of Azure AD Connect. Get Azure AD Connect...
Author: Shannon Gowen Date: 05/24/2016
(Cloud) Tip of the Day: Resolving HTTP 400 Request Header too long
Today’s Tip… When you get the following error message… HTTP 400 - Bad Request (Request Header too...
Author: Shannon Gowen Date: 05/23/2016
(Cloud) Tip of the Day: Azure Subscriptions & Azure AD FAQ
Today’s Tip… Check out the following blog @...
Author: Shannon Gowen Date: 05/20/2016
Tip of the Day: Just Released - Message Analyzer 1.4
Today’s Tip… Announcing Microsoft Message Analyzer 1.4 Today we are pleased to announce the Message...
Author: Shannon Gowen Date: 05/19/2016
Tip of the Day: Setting up Port Mirroring to Capture Mirrored Traffic on a Hyper-V Virtual Machine
Today’s Tip… In keeping with this weeks ‘Diagnostics’ theme, I wanted to dust off a really good...
Author: Shannon Gowen Date: 05/18/2016
Tip of the Day: Network Forensics with Windows DNS Analytical Logging
Today’s Tip… Yesterday’s tip discussed some of the new analytics available for Windows Server 2016...
Author: Shannon Gowen Date: 05/17/2016
Tip of the Day: Using DNS Analytical Logging
Today’s Tip… Just when you thought DNS could not get any better there are several new features and...
Author: Shannon Gowen Date: 05/16/2016
(Cloud) Tip of the Day: Upgrade from DirSync to Azure AD Connect
Today’s Tip… The Azure AD Synchronization Tool or also called DirSync will soon be deprecated and...
Author: Shannon Gowen Date: 05/12/2016
(Cloud) Tip of the Day: Azure AD Connect 1.1 is now GA
Today’s Tip… Huge updates come to the latest installment of Azure AD Connect. Get Azure AD Connect...
Author: Shannon Gowen Date: 05/11/2016
(Cloud) Tip of the Day: Upgrade your E3 trial tenant to E5
Today’s Tip… How to add E5 licenses to an existing E3 trial tenant Log into your E3 trial tenant as...
Author: Shannon Gowen Date: 05/10/2016
(Cloud) Tip of the Day: Resolving HTTP 400 Request Header too long
Today’s Tip… When you get the following error message… HTTP 400 - Bad Request (Request Header too...
Author: Shannon Gowen Date: 05/09/2016
(Cloud) Tip of the Day: Azure Subscriptions & Azure AD FAQ
Today’s Tip… Check out the following blog at...
Author: Shannon Gowen Date: 05/05/2016
(Cloud) Tip of the Day: Redeploy Virtual Machine to new Azure node
Today’s Tip… If you have been facing difficulties troubleshooting Remote Desktop (RDP) connection to...
Author: Shannon Gowen Date: 05/04/2016
(Cloud) Tip of the Day: Azure DNS -- Now configurable in the Azure portal
Today’s Tip… In May of last year, we announced the preview of Azure DNS, allowing you to host your...
Author: Shannon Gowen Date: 05/03/2016
(Cloud) Tip of the Day: Azure Disk Encryption for Windows and Linux IaaS VMs Preview
Today’s Tip… While data disk encryption for Azure IaaS virtual machines has been available for some...
Author: Shannon Gowen Date: 05/02/2016