Tip of the Day
Tiny amounts of knowledge for a fast paced world!
Tip of the Day: Free Microsoft E-books
I am glad to share that many E-books on Microsoft technologies are now available for FREE that is...
Author: Shannon Gowen Date: 11/17/2015
Tip of the Day: Nano Servers are coming!
Today’s Tip… Nano Servers are coming! Nano Server is a remotely administered server operating system...
Author: Shannon Gowen Date: 11/16/2015
(Cloud) Tip of the Day: Azure Virtual Machine services in Azure Resource Manager
Today’s Tip… Azure Virtual Machines, virtual networks, load balancer network interfaces, public IP...
Author: Shannon Gowen Date: 11/13/2015
(Cloud) Tip of the Day: Keeping Azure PowerShell Current
Today’s Tip… With all the new features and improvements being continually rolled out to Azure it is...
Author: Shannon Gowen Date: 11/12/2015
(Cloud) Tip of the Day: New Docker application from Microsoft runs on Linux and Windows
Today’s Tip… In the DockerCon keynote, Mark Russinovich demonstrated the first-ever multi-platform...
Author: Shannon Gowen Date: 11/11/2015
(IoT) Tip of the Day: MinnowBoard MAX is now
Today’s Tip… Do you already have your Raspberry Pi2 running Windows 10 IoT Core (Beta)? If not,...
Author: Shannon Gowen Date: 11/10/2015
Tip of the Day: KMS Activation in Windows 10
Today’s Tip… Time to prepare KMS for Windows 10! Determine if your current KMS host is supported:...
Author: Shannon Gowen Date: 11/09/2015
(SQL) Tip of the Day: P3 Premium performance level for Azure SQL Database to be renamed
Today’s Tip… As more customers build more powerful applications in Azure using Azure SQL Database,...
Author: Shannon Gowen Date: 11/06/2015
Tip of the Day: Partitioning in SQL Azure
Today’s Tip… Did you know you can use partitioning in SQL Azure now? Following the documentation...
Author: Shannon Gowen Date: 11/05/2015
(SQL) Tip of the Day: Moving a SQL Azure Database Server from One Subscription to Another
Today’s Tip… Moving a SQL Azure Database Server from one subscription to another is quite simple....
Author: Shannon Gowen Date: 11/04/2015
(SQL) Tip of the Day: Geo Replication with TDE
Today’s Tip… Just a current issue we have been facing that you may run into. If you are running your...
Author: Shannon Gowen Date: 11/03/2015
Tip of the Day: VPN CSP’s, Schemas, and OMA-URI’s
Today’s Tip… Yesterday’s tip outlined the methods that can be used to configure both networking...
Author: Shannon Gowen Date: 11/02/2015
Tip of the Day: Configuring Windows 10 VPN Features
Today’s Tip…Windows 10 Networking: Our last very exciting tip included a quick run-down on a few of...
Author: Robert Mitchell [MSFT] Date: 10/30/2015
Today’s Tip…Windows 10 Client Networking Feature Run-Down
The Windows 10 client will be here soon and with it a variety of new capabilities and features....
Author: Robert Mitchell [MSFT] Date: 10/29/2015
(Cloud) Tip of the Day: Azure Previews
Today’s Tip… Did you know, there is a page that lists all Azure and Azure Active Directory Public...
Author: Robert Mitchell [MSFT] Date: 10/28/2015
(Cloud) Tip of the Day: Office 365 Admin App
Today’s Tip… Last February, that is Feb 2014, I posted a tip about Office 365 Admin app releasing to...
Author: Robert Mitchell [MSFT] Date: 10/27/2015
(Cloud) Tip of the Day: Azure AD Join
Today’s Tip… Here is a great new series on how Windows 10 is integrating with Azure AD....
Author: Robert Mitchell [MSFT] Date: 10/26/2015
(Cloud) Tip of the Day: Verifying domains in Azure AD
Today’s Tip… There are lots of scenarios and things to consider when using domains in Office 365,...
Author: Robert Mitchell [MSFT] Date: 10/23/2015
(Cloud) Tip of the Day: Activate users after syncing to Azure AD
Today’s Tip… Syncing to Azure Active Directory does not automatically grant users access to services...
Author: Robert Mitchell [MSFT] Date: 10/22/2015
Tip of the Day: Shielded VMs
Cybersecurity has hit the mainstream. You would be hard pressed to find someone who doesn’t know...
Author: Robert Mitchell [MSFT] Date: 10/20/2015
Tip of the Day: Win10 Rebalancing
Today’s Tip… One of the new features in Window 10 that can be witnessed in the current Technical...
Author: Robert Mitchell [MSFT] Date: 10/19/2015
(Cloud) Tip of the Day: New Azure compliance certifications in United States, Singapore, Japan and New Zealand
We are pleased to announced 4 new compliance certifications for Azure in the US, Singapore, Japan...
Author: Robert Mitchell [MSFT] Date: 10/16/2015
(Cloud) Tip of the Day: What's New in Azure Networking
Earlier at Ignite, we announced a number of widely anticipated and exciting new features for Azure...
Author: Robert Mitchell [MSFT] Date: 10/15/2015
(Cloud) Tip of the Day: Gartner Magic Quadrants - How Azure Stacks Up
Gartner recently published their Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure as a Service and Microsoft...
Author: Robert Mitchell [MSFT] Date: 10/14/2015
(Cloud) Tip of the Day: Azure Resource Manager and IaaS - Together at Last
Today’s (Cloud) Tip… Azure Resource Manager and IaaS - Together at Last. Recently we announced the...
Author: Robert Mitchell [MSFT] Date: 10/13/2015
Tip of the Day: CBS Servicing States Chart - Refresher
Ever find yourself lost in the CBS log? It’s likely that if you’ve opened the CBS.log in...
Author: Robert Mitchell [MSFT] Date: 10/12/2015
Tip of the Day: Free eBooks!
Here are your main categories: New for April 2015: This third ebook in the “Microsoft Azure...
Author: Robert Mitchell [MSFT] Date: 10/09/2015
Tip of the Day: What's New with SCCM OSD and MDT
Seventy-six minutes covering the future improvements for deployment and upgrade in the next versions...
Author: Robert Mitchell [MSFT] Date: 10/08/2015
(Surface) Tip of the Day: Windows 10 on Surface 3? Go for it!
But do your homework. Before you begin: Know that you are installing pre-release software on your...
Author: Robert Mitchell [MSFT] Date: 10/07/2015
(SQL) Tip of the Day: TDE with SQL Azure
Today’s (SQL) Tip… An often requested feature of Azure SQL Database is end to end encryption. We can...
Author: Robert Mitchell [MSFT] Date: 10/06/2015
(SQL) Tip of the Day: SQL Database Elastic Pools
Today’s (SQL) Tip… Recently announced at BUILD, Elastic Pools (codenamed Malmo) will allow you to...
Author: Robert Mitchell [MSFT] Date: 10/05/2015
(SQL) Tip of the Day: Cancelling a V12 Migration via PowerShell
Today’s (SQL) Tip… If you are moving from V11 to V12 with a large database and are on a lower tier...
Author: Robert Mitchell [MSFT] Date: 10/02/2015
(SQL) Tip of the Day: Microsoft Azure SQL Support Blog
Today’s (SQL) Tip… Simple one today, we have started up a blog for supporting Azure SQL Database....
Author: Robert Mitchell [MSFT] Date: 10/01/2015
Tip of the Day: Ignite - Day 2 Highlights
Today’s Tip…Ignite Day 2 Highlights – Scouring the schedule so you don’t have to! The following list...
Author: Robert Mitchell [MSFT] Date: 09/29/2015
Tip of the Day: Ignite - Day 1 Highlights
Today’s Tip…Ignite Week – Day 1 Highlights For your viewing pleasure, highlights from day 1…...
Author: Robert Mitchell [MSFT] Date: 09/28/2015
(Cloud) Tip of the Day: Password sync does not work after re-activing directory synchronization
Today’s (Cloud) Tip… This is just a quick tip or rather important information to understand when...
Author: Robert Mitchell [MSFT] Date: 09/24/2015
(Cloud) Tip of the Day: Office 365 Password Service Settings
Today’s (Cloud) Tip… There has been some recent changes to the Office 365 portal that allows you to...
Author: Robert Mitchell [MSFT] Date: 09/23/2015
(Cloud) Tip of the Day: Set password policies for AAD user accounts
If you are using a service that uses Azure Active Directory as the identity platform such as Office...
Author: Robert Mitchell [MSFT] Date: 09/22/2015
(Cloud) Tip of the Day: Disable SSPR for tenant
Today’s (Cloud) Tip… If you are using a service that uses Azure Active Directory as the identity...
Author: Robert Mitchell [MSFT] Date: 09/21/2015
Tip of the Day: Backup and Restore in Windows 10
Today’s Tip… To accommodate Windows 7 users that want to move to Windows 10, the Backup and Restore...
Author: Robert Mitchell [MSFT] Date: 09/21/2015
(Cloud) Tip of the Day: Set password to never expire
Today’s (Cloud) Tip… If you are using a service that uses Azure Active Directory as the identity...
Author: Robert Mitchell [MSFT] Date: 09/18/2015
(Cloud) Tip of the Day: Statistics about Azure Active Directory
Here is a great read about how to connect your local environment to Microsoft Online Services such...
Author: Robert Mitchell [MSFT] Date: 09/17/2015
Tip of the Day: Popular Hyper-V Cmdlets
Today’s Tip… Ben Armstrong posted a blog about the most popular Hyper-V PowerShell cmdlets and how...
Author: Robert Mitchell [MSFT] Date: 09/16/2015
Tip of the Day: More on Memory Demand
In yesterday’s tip, I talked about Memory Demand in Windows 10 Hyper-V. I got a couple of questions...
Author: Robert Mitchell [MSFT] Date: 09/15/2015
Tip of the Day: Memory Demand in Windows 10
Today’s Tip… A number of releases ago, Microsoft introduced the concept of “Memory Demand”. This was...
Author: Robert Mitchell [MSFT] Date: 09/14/2015
Tip of the Day: Hard drives
Today’s Tip… Because of my focus on storage, I’m often asked about how a hard drive works. This is...
Author: Robert Mitchell [MSFT] Date: 09/11/2015
(Cloud) Tip of the Day: Azure Premium Storage, now generally available
Today’s (Cloud) Tip… Azure Premium Storage, now generally available The long awaited Azure Premium...
Author: Robert Mitchell [MSFT] Date: 09/10/2015
Tip of the Day: How to create a RemoteApp template image in Azure
Today’s (Cloud) Tip… How to create a RemoteApp template image in Azure One of the biggest complaints...
Author: Robert Mitchell [MSFT] Date: 09/09/2015