Tip of the Day
Tiny amounts of knowledge for a fast paced world!
(Cloud) Tip of the Day: Viewing VM Reboot Logs
Today’s Tip… Microsoft Azure periodically performs global updates in order to improve the...
Author: Shannon Gowen Date: 02/10/2016
(Cloud) Tip of the Day: Microsoft and Red Hat partner to deliver more flexibility and choice
Today’s Tip… We have announced a partnership with Red Hat that will allow customers to deploy...
Author: Shannon Gowen Date: 02/09/2016
(Cloud) Tip of the Day: Announcing the GS-Series: Adding Premium Storage Support to the Largest VMs in the Public Cloud
Today’s Tip… Earlier this year we announced the G-Series line of VMs, which provided the most...
Author: Shannon Gowen Date: 02/08/2016
(IoT) Tip of the Day: Windows 10 IoT Core for Raspberry Pi 2 Starter Pack Available
Today’s Tip… Microsoft’s Maker team has partnered with Adafruit to release a Raspberry Pi 2 Starter...
Author: Shannon Gowen Date: 02/05/2016
Tip of the Day: Troubleshooting Windows 10 Deployment: Top Ten Tips and Tricks
Today’s Tip… Johan Arwidmark and Mikael Nyström deliver just over an hour of 300-level training that...
Author: Shannon Gowen Date: 02/04/2016
(Surface) Tip of the Day: Stay up to date on Surface
Today’s Tip… Looking for that one stop for all things Surface? Here you go! Download the latest...
Author: Shannon Gowen Date: 02/02/2016
(SQL) Tip of the Day: In-Memory OLTP and Real-Time Operational Analytics for Azure SQL Database in public preview
Today’s Tip… In-Memory OLTP with extended T-SQL surface area is now in public preview in Azure SQL...
Author: Shannon Gowen Date: 02/01/2016
(SQL) Tip of the Day: Recreating a SQL Azure Server right after you Delete it
Today’s Tip… Sometimes when you delete a SQL Azure server you are not able to recreate it in the...
Author: Shannon Gowen Date: 01/28/2016
(SQL) Tip of the Day: Updating Statistics and Recompiling Stored Procedures
Today’s Tip… When you run into a performance issue in SQL (On premise or SQL Azure) a common...
Author: Shannon Gowen Date: 01/27/2016
(Cloud) Tip of the Day: Link an Azure RemoteApp collection to your existing Azure Virtual Network (without domain join!)
Today’s (Cloud) Tip… How to Link an Azure RemoteApp collection to your existing Azure Virtual...
Author: Shannon Gowen Date: 01/26/2016
(Cloud) Tip of the Day: Boot Diagnostics for Virtual Machines v2
Today’s (Cloud) Tip… You can now get read-only boot diagnostics for your v2 virtual machines without...
Author: Shannon Gowen Date: 01/25/2016
Tip of the Day: Removing Drivers in Windows 10
Today’s Tip… To help reduce the overall footprint of Windows rarely used drivers like PCMCIA and...
Author: Shannon Gowen Date: 01/22/2016
Tip of the Day: Nostalgia part II
Today’s Tip… Another Rob Flashback~ After my nostalgic tip from earlier this week, I remembered...
Author: Shannon Gowen Date: 01/21/2016
Tip of the Day: Volsnap tracing
Today’s Tip… In Windows 10, Volsnap has a functioning ETW Operational channel. Previous versions of...
Author: Shannon Gowen Date: 01/20/2016
Tip of the Day: A moment of nostalgia
Today’s Tip… Rob tries try to make tips about new stuff. However, in light of his 21st anniversary...
Author: Shannon Gowen Date: 01/19/2016
Tip of the Day: Windows 10 Servicing Options
Today’s Tip… “Windows 10 Servicing Options” -...
Author: Shannon Gowen Date: 01/18/2016
Tip of the Day: Windows Setup Command Line Options
Today’s Tip… Do you use automation to deploy a new operating system or complete an upgrade? Ever...
Author: Shannon Gowen Date: 01/15/2016
Tip of the Day: Determining Servicing Branch in Windows 10 Enterprise with PowerShell
Today’s Tip… Need to determine the branch of Windows 10 Enterprise you’re using? Open PowerShell Run...
Author: Shannon Gowen Date: 01/14/2016
Tip of the Day: Windows Setup States
Today’s Tip… Ever wonder what state your Windows image was in during installation or how to describe...
Author: Shannon Gowen Date: 01/13/2016
(SQL) Tip of the Day: Row Level Security on SQL Azure Database
Today’s Tip… Row level security allows you to control access to rows in a table based on the user...
Author: Shannon Gowen Date: 01/12/2016
(SQL) Tip of the Day: Contained Users and Firewall Rules
Today’s Tip… Every so often you may run into an issue where you see an authentication error or other...
Author: Shannon Gowen Date: 01/11/2016
(SQL) Tip of the Day: Adding a Custom Named SQL Azure Server Via PowerShell
Today’s Tip… You can add a custom named SQL Azure server now via PowerShell using the resource...
Author: Shannon Gowen Date: 01/08/2016
(Networking) Tip of the Day: Hot Add/Remove vNics in Hyper-V
Today’s Tip… Did you know you could hot add/remove Virtual NICs in Windows 10 Hyper-V? Windows 10...
Author: Shannon Gowen Date: 01/07/2016
Tip of the Day: VPN and Enterprise Data Protection
Today’s Tip… EDP is new for Windows 10 and provides an array of capabilities aimed and assuring the...
Author: Shannon Gowen Date: 01/06/2016
(Cloud) Tip of the Day: Setting up devices to send email using Office 365
Today’s Tip… Setting up devices to send email using Office 365 Here are the settings you need to...
Author: Shannon Gowen Date: 01/05/2016
(Cloud) Tip of the Day: SharePoint Online Storage Management Changes
Today’s Tip… There are some really cool SharePoint Online Storage Management changes happening. Read...
Author: Shannon Gowen Date: 01/04/2016
Tip of the Day: Take a break and enjoy your holiday/time off!
Tip of the Day will be taking it’s annual Northern Hemisphere Winter break, returning Monday,...
Author: Shannon Gowen Date: 12/19/2015
(Cloud) Tip of the Day: Directory Sync Hard-Matching
Today’s Tip… In order to hard-match objects between on-premises Active Directory and Azure Active...
Author: Shannon Gowen Date: 12/18/2015
(Cloud) Tip of the Day: OWA + OneDrive
Today’s Tip… You can now save email attachments in Outlook Web App to OneDrive… "In Outlook Web...
Author: Shannon Gowen Date: 12/17/2015
Tip of the Day: Files used Configuration Version 6.2
Today’s Tip… In Windows 10, Hyper-V has been changed in how it stores virtual machine information....
Author: Shannon Gowen Date: 12/16/2015
Tip of the Day: Napping Update
Today’s Tip… Yesterday, I sent out a tip concerning NAP (Network Access Protection). A couple of...
Author: Shannon Gowen Date: 12/15/2015
Tip of the Day: No Napping
Today’s Tip… Another question that showed up on one of the aliases. Q: Do you know if there will be...
Author: Shannon Gowen Date: 12/14/2015
Tip of the Day: Hyper-V integration components update
Today’s Tip… This came across one of the aliases recently. So I wanted to make sure all the TotD...
Author: Shannon Gowen Date: 12/11/2015
(Cloud) Tip of the Day: Azure Government Achieves Significant Compliance Milestones
Today’s Tip… In April Microsoft announced four new industry certifications for Microsoft Azure –...
Author: Shannon Gowen Date: 12/10/2015
(Cloud) Tip of the Day: Easy File Transfer from On-Premises to Azure Virtual Machines
Today’s Tip… A few months ago, Veeam released a free, full featured utility to quickly and securely...
Author: Shannon Gowen Date: 12/09/2015
(Surface) Tip of the Day: Manually Crash Your Surface Pro 3
Today’s Tip… NOTE– Making any registry change should be done very carefully. As with everything,...
Author: Shannon Gowen Date: 12/08/2015
Tip of the Day: Customization via Provisioning in Windows 10
Today’s Tip… With all of the chatter about what Windows 10 brings, you may have heard “provisioning”...
Author: Shannon Gowen Date: 12/07/2015
Tip of the Day: Desktop Shortcut Keys for Windows 10
Today’s Tip… Desktop Shortcut Keys for Windows 10 Shortcut Description (Windows Key) Open and close...
Author: Shannon Gowen Date: 12/04/2015
(SQL) Tip of the Day: Integrated Azure PowerShell into your Default PowerShell prompt
Today’s Tip… With Windows 10 you will notice that your default PowerShell window now has syntax...
Author: Shannon Gowen Date: 12/03/2015
(SQL) Tip of the Day: Using QDS to understand your database’s performance
Today’s Tip… Want more information about what is going on inside your SQL Azure database? We have...
Author: Shannon Gowen Date: 12/02/2015
Tip of the Day: Configuring VPN Policies with Intune
Today’s Tip… Well, just got that shiny new 30-day Intune trial and wondering what to do with it? How...
Author: Shannon Gowen Date: 12/01/2015
Tip of the Day: Getting Ready for Windows 10 - Your own Intune Lab
Today’s Tip… Yesterday’s tip provided a background on OMA-DM operations, the standard on which...
Author: Shannon Gowen Date: 11/30/2015
Tip of the Day: Getting Ready for Windows 10 - An MDM Primer
Today’s Tip… Need to understand the finer points of MDM, but have no more than 10 minutes to spare?...
Author: Shannon Gowen Date: 11/27/2015
(Cloud) Tip of the Day: IdFix
Today’s Tip… There are a number of object synchronization errors that slow down onboarding...
Author: Shannon Gowen Date: 11/25/2015
(Cloud) Tip of the Day: Troubleshooting Office 365 Network Performance
Today’s Tip… Here are some great resources on planning and troubleshooting network performance when...
Author: Shannon Gowen Date: 11/24/2015
(Cloud) Tip of the Day: GA of Azure AD Connect & Health
Today’s Tip… Azure AD Connect and Azure AD Connect Health went General Availability. Check out the...
Author: Shannon Gowen Date: 11/23/2015
Tip of the Day: Win10 and Network Device Naming
Today’s Tip… Network Device Naming is feature found in Windows 10 Client Hyper-V that enables...
Author: Shannon Gowen Date: 11/19/2015
Tip of the Day: Cleaning up Storage Spaces
Today’s Tip… Completely Clearing an Existing Storage Spaces Configuration - This script completely...
Author: Shannon Gowen Date: 11/18/2015