My top tweets from 2016
These are my top tweets from each month in 2016, according to https://analytics.twitter.com.
January 2016
New blog post: My Top Reasons to Use OneDrive
https://blogs.technet.com/b/josebda/archive/2016/01/26/my-top-reasons-to-use-onedrive.aspx
New FileCab blog: Updating Firmware for Disk Drives in Windows Server 2016 (TP4)
https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/filecab/2016/01/25/updating-firmware-for-disk-drives-in-windows-server-2016-tp4/
Updated Intel HD 5000 driver (released alongside the new Surface Pro 3 firmware) fixed my SP3 display driver issues.
February 2016
ICYMI: Learning PowerShell? Make it fun with the "Adventure House Game".
https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/josebda/2015/03/28/powershell-examples-adventure-house-game/
How much data in your local OneDrive folder? This PowerShell small script will tell you:
https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/josebda/2016/02/23/powershell-for-finding-the-size-of-your-local-onedrive-folder/
March 2016
Video: The @onedrive recycle bin.
https://support.office.com/en-us/article/The-recycle-bin-b8fc11e8-0f99-4c15-a300-05d94facb26b
Recover files or folders you accidentally deleted.
The real and complete story - Does Windows defragment your SSD? by @shanselman via
https://www.hanselman.com/blog/TheRealAndCompleteStoryDoesWindowsDefragmentYourSSD.aspx
FileCab: The Android app for Work Folders has been released to the Google PlayStore
https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/filecab/2016/03/16/work-folders-for-android-released/
April 2016
Intel Optane Demo - File Transfer at 2GB/s - IDF Shenzhen via @pcper
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMJCA2ZWfk0
Watching the #Build2016 day 2 keynote with @scottgu from
https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/2016/KEY02
New FileCab blog: Data Deduplication in Windows Server 2016
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server-docs/storage/data-deduplication/whats-new
May 2016
New blog: Microsoft Ignite 2015 sessions related to OneDrive and SharePoint
https://blogs.technet.com/b/josebda/archive/2015/05/09/microsoft-ignite-2015-sessions-related-to-onedrive-and-sharepoint.aspx
OneDrive app for Windows 10 available for Desktop - Get the app from
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/store/p/onedrive/9wzdncrfj1p3
Know your dialects.
Using CIFS to refer to SMB 2/3 is like saying POP and IMAP are the same.
Thanks @JoseBarreto nice quote #SMBCloud
https://twitter.com/AleGoncalves12/status/733739789938106368
June 2016
OneDrive sync stuck? Reset it! Use <Windows><R> then type:
%localappdata%\Microsoft\OneDrive\onedrive.exe /reset
Administrative settings for the OneDrive for Business Next Generation Sync Client.
https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Administrative-settings-for-the-new-OneDrive-sync-client-0ecb2cf5-8882-42b3-a6e9-be6bda30899c?ui=en-US&rs=en-US&ad=US
July 2016
Has anyone used the OneDriveMapper tool?
https://www.lieben.nu/liebensraum/onedrivemapper/
Interested in learning how well it worked for you...
@JoseBarreto Wanted to personally thank you for test-storagehealth.ps1.
I use it every day and it has made my life easier.
https://twitter.com/CIT_Bronson/status/759051460969697284
The WPC 2016 (Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference) keynote video is available at
https://news.microsoft.com/wpc2016/
August 2016
Windows Server 2016 Dedup Documentation Now Live! New blog by Will Gries.
https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/filecab/2016/08/29/windows-server-2016-dedup-documentation-now-live/
Devs can go to hololens.com and purchase up to 5 Hololens. No application required!
September 2016
Stop using SMB1 by @NerdPyle – "Please. We’re begging you."
https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/filecab/2016/09/16/stop-using-smb1/
Reached 3,000 followers today!
From #MSIgnite
- 400M Windows 10 monthly active devices
- 70M Office 365 monthly active users
- 1B logins per day by Azure Active Directory
October 2016
ICYMI: Lepton image compression: saving 22% losslessly from images at 15MB/s via Dropbox
https://blogs.dropbox.com/tech/2016/07/lepton-image-compression-saving-22-losslessly-from-images-at-15mbs/
Storage Spaces Direct with Persistent Memory: 8 DL380 Gen9, Mellanox CX-4 100Gbps, 16 8GiB NVDIMM-N, 4 NVMe.
https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/filecab/2016/10/17/storage-spaces-direct-with-persistent-memory/
@JoseBarreto $8.55/chip for 20 GbE is hard to beat. :-)
Imagine now if ODMs start putting @intel Thunderbolt on the motherboard!
https://twitter.com/CosmosDarwin/status/786970312931815424
November 2016
Futurism: Microsoft Releases Quantum Computing Simulator to the Public
https://futurism.com/microsoft-releases-quantum-computing-simulator-to-the-public-2/
Anti-virus optimization for Windows Containers. Avoiding redundant scanning of Windows Container files.
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/hardware/drivers/ifs/anti-virus-optimization-for-windows-containers
December 2016
Official Windows Blog: Symlinks in Windows 10!
https://blogs.windows.com/buildingapps/2016/12/02/symlinks-windows-10/
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