Microsoft Server & Tools Blogs
Windows Server 2012 Remote Desktop Services Demonstration Videos now Available
The Remote Desktop Services team just published some great videos explaining the new Remote Desktop...
Author: ServerAndToolsBlogsTeam Date: 12/11/2012
Using Push Notifications, SMS and Email in Your Mobile Application
There are also two fantastic tutorials available in the mobile dev center. The first provides a...
Author: ServerAndToolsBlogsTeam Date: 12/11/2012
Microsoft Cloud Scale - By The Numbers
From time to time Microsoft VP, Frank Shaw, likes to do a blog post that has some numbers to...
Author: ServerAndToolsBlogsTeam Date: 12/09/2012
Windows Azure Team Announces Reduced Pricing for Windows Azure Storage
On Wednesday we announced another price reduction for Windows Azure Storage by as much as 28%,...
Author: ServerAndToolsBlogsTeam Date: 12/07/2012
Windows Server 2012 and Hyper-V Replica Take On Hurricane Sandy
When the winds and waves of Hurricane Sandy bore down ferociously on New York City, at least two...
Author: ServerAndToolsBlogsTeam Date: 12/06/2012
Microsoft Management Summit (MMS) 2013 Registration Now Open
The Microsoft Management Summit (MMS) brings together the brightest IT professionals from around the...
Author: ServerAndToolsBlogsTeam Date: 12/05/2012
Imagine Cup Winners Announced
Today at the Social Innovation Summit in Silicon Valley, Microsoft announced the five winners of the...
Author: ServerAndToolsBlogsTeam Date: 12/04/2012
The new Office is now available for business customers
Business customers around the world can now purchase the on-premises versions of the new Office...
Author: ServerAndToolsBlogsTeam Date: 12/03/2012
A Deeper Look at Microsoft’s Free Anti-Cross-Site Scripting Library and Tools
This article in our free security tools series focuses on the benefits of the Microsoft...
Author: ServerAndToolsBlogsTeam Date: 12/02/2012
Windows MultiPoint Server 2012 Releases to Manufacturing
We’re excited to announce that Windows MultiPoint Server 2012 is released and an Evaluation...
Author: ServerAndToolsBlogsTeam Date: 11/30/2012
The SQL Server Community Looks to Emerging Trends in BI and Database Technologies
At PASS Summit this year Ted Kummert outlined his views on accelerating insights in the new world of...
Author: ServerAndToolsBlogsTeam Date: 11/29/2012
Analyzing and Fixing Active Directory Time Rollback Issues
A few days ago, one of our customers had a time issue with Active Directory. This post contains...
Author: ServerAndToolsBlogsTeam Date: 11/28/2012
Windows Azure Active Directory Processes 200 Billion Authentications
At Microsoft, we have been on a transformative journey to cloud computing and we have been working...
Author: ServerAndToolsBlogsTeam Date: 11/27/2012
Windows 8 Rocks 40 Million Licenses !
As we pass the one month anniversary of the general availability of Windows 8, we are pleased to...
Author: ServerAndToolsBlogsTeam Date: 11/27/2012
Visual Studio 2012 Update 1 is now available!
We are excited to announce Visual Studio 2012 Update 1, is now available. You can install it either...
Author: ServerAndToolsBlogsTeam Date: 11/26/2012
New Per-share SMB Client Performance Counters Provide Great Insight
Windows Server 2012 and Windows 8 include a new set of performance counters that can greatly help...
Author: ServerAndToolsBlogsTeam Date: 11/24/2012
Server Posterpedia Version 2 is now is available in the Windows Store
Server Posterpedia is a Windows Store app designed for Windows 8 and Windows RT that brings...
Author: ServerAndToolsBlogsTeam Date: 11/22/2012
SQL Server In-Memory OLTP technology Project “Hekaton” Riles Oracle VP
It seems we hit a nerve by announcing our planned In-Memory OLTP technology, aka Project...
Author: ServerAndToolsBlogsTeam Date: 11/21/2012
The Windows Azure Management Portal Continues to Make Great Improvements
The Azure development team continues to make improvements to various aspects of the management...
Author: ServerAndToolsBlogsTeam Date: 11/20/2012
What's New for Group Policy in Windows Server 2012
Some of you that know me (through my www.gpoguy.com and www.sdmsoftware.com sites), know that I...
Author: ServerAndToolsBlogsTeam Date: 11/16/2012
VMware Costs Are Higher Than Microsoft’s
Recently we came across the updated VMware cost per application calculator and discovered what our...
Author: ServerAndToolsBlogsTeam Date: 11/15/2012
Active Directory Indexing For the Masses
You may have noticed a steady stream of technical blog posts from the our Premier Field Engineering...
Author: ServerAndToolsBlogsTeam Date: 11/14/2012
Internet Explorer 10 Release Preview Now Available for Windows 7
In Windows 8, we reimagined the browser with IE10. We designed and built IE10 to be the best way to...
Author: ServerAndToolsBlogsTeam Date: 11/13/2012
Building Applications for Microsoft Office and SharePoint
Today at the SharePoint Conference in Las Vegas, we shared significant updates to these tools, with...
Author: ServerAndToolsBlogsTeam Date: 11/12/2012
WOWZAPP 2012 Hackathon for Windows is Underway
REDMOND, Wash. — Nov. 9, 2012 — Microsoft Corp. today kicked off WOWZAPP 2012: Worldwide...
Author: ServerAndToolsBlogsTeam Date: 11/10/2012
Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V Delivers Scalability and Performance for Virtualized Enterprise Apps
When Windows Server 2012 became available to our customers earlier this year, we asked ESG Labs to...
Author: ServerAndToolsBlogsTeam Date: 11/08/2012
The New World of Data
This is an exciting time in the world of data. Big data is growing. The cost to store and process...
Author: ServerAndToolsBlogsTeam Date: 11/07/2012
Skype and Messenger Are Coming Together
Skype and Messenger are coming together. Millions of Messenger users will be able to reach their...
Author: ServerAndToolsBlogsTeam Date: 11/06/2012
Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 is Now Available
Three weeks ago the Exchange Server team announced the RTM of Exchange Server 2013 on their team...
Author: ServerAndToolsBlogsTeam Date: 11/02/2012
Windows Azure Powers Halo 4
The average gamer probably doesn’t think about the virtual machines, cloud services and other...
Author: ServerAndToolsBlogsTeam Date: 11/02/2012
Windows Azure is Coming to China
Today, we are pleased to announce that Microsoft is bringing our premier public cloud platform...
Author: ServerAndToolsBlogsTeam Date: 11/01/2012
Experience //build/ Live!!!
Today we kicked off the //build/ Conference in Seattle on the Microsoft campus. If you weren’t...
Author: ServerAndToolsBlogsTeam Date: 10/30/2012
Windows Phone 8 Unveiled
SAN FRANCISCO — Oct. 29, 2012 — Microsoft Corp. today debuted Windows Phone 8, the...
Author: ServerAndToolsBlogsTeam Date: 10/29/2012
Windows 8 Arrives Worldwide
NEW YORK — Oct. 25, 2012 — Microsoft Corp. today announced the global availability of...
Author: ServerAndToolsBlogsTeam Date: 10/25/2012
Microsoft HDInsight Server for Windows and Windows Azure HDInsight Service Announced
Earlier this year we announced partnerships with key players in the Apache Hadoop community to...
Author: ServerAndToolsBlogsTeam Date: 10/24/2012
What’s New With the Windows Azure Marketplace
Making things easier and more efficient while helping you improve productivity, is the name of the...
Author: ServerAndToolsBlogsTeam Date: 10/23/2012
Building a Windows Server 2012 Cloud Infrastructure with PowerShell
Complementing the existing efforts to provide guidance around building a Cloud Infrastructure with...
Author: ServerAndToolsBlogsTeam Date: 10/22/2012
Building iOS Applications with Team Foundation Server (TFS)
It is becoming more and more common for software shops to build applications and apps for multiple...
Author: ServerAndToolsBlogsTeam Date: 10/19/2012
Creating BI Solutions with BISM Tabular
Business Intelligence, the process of analyzing business data to support better decision-making, has...
Author: ServerAndToolsBlogsTeam Date: 10/18/2012
Windows Server 2012 Identity Mapping for Network File Services (NFS)
The methods Windows and NFS use to represent user and group identities are different and are not...
Author: ServerAndToolsBlogsTeam Date: 10/17/2012
Microsoft Reaches Agreement to Acquire StorSimple
Many of you are faced with an explosion in data and the resulting cost to store, manage and archive...
Author: ServerAndToolsBlogsTeam Date: 10/16/2012
Microsoft Office 2013 Reaches the Release to Manufacturing (RTM) Milestone
Last week was a busy week for the company. Our Office division reached the release to manufacturing...
Author: ServerAndToolsBlogsTeam Date: 10/15/2012
Windows 8 and Windows 8 PC Pre-orders Begin
Microsoft’s hardware partners are about to unleash a wave of new Windows 8 devices in all...
Author: ServerAndToolsBlogsTeam Date: 10/12/2012
RSA Europe Keynote: Risks and Rewards in Cloud Adoption - SIRv13 and Cloud Readiness Tool
Adrienne Hall, Microsoft General Manager in the Trustworthy Computing group delivered a keynote...
Author: ServerAndToolsBlogsTeam Date: 10/10/2012
Windows Server 2012 Essentials RTM’s - download the 180-day trial now
Windows Server 2012 Essentials (formerly Windows Small Business Server Essentials) is a flexible,...
Author: ServerAndToolsBlogsTeam Date: 10/09/2012
How the City of Barcelona Uses Windows Server 2012 and Hyper-V
The city IT staff are starting to use virtualisation desktop infrastructure (VDI) based on Windows...
Author: ServerAndToolsBlogsTeam Date: 10/08/2012
New Open Source Options for Windows Azure Web Sites: MediaWiki and phpBB
Need to set up a powerful wiki quickly? Looking for an open source bulletin board solution for your...
Author: ServerAndToolsBlogsTeam Date: 10/03/2012
DC Cloning and Snapshot Restoration
Until now, cloning, snapshotting, copying, or pretty much doing anything but rebuilding from scratch...
Author: ServerAndToolsBlogsTeam Date: 10/01/2012