2012

Various – All Microsoft e-books

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As you may already know, Microsoft is publishing frequently e-books related to deployment or technology usage. To help you finding these e-books, a wiki page has been created which is listing all Microsoft e-books published today. Use this page to find and download your missing e-book on Office, Office 365, SharePoint, SQL, Windows or development

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Windows Azure – New services

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Microsoft has announced new Windows Azure services. As part of these new services, you will find Hyper V on Cloud (Windows Azure Virtual Machines), virtual network (Windows Azure Virtual Network), web sites (Windows Azure Web Sites) and more. Moreover, Windows Azure services will be available to more countries (48 new countries). Windows Azure Virtual Machines

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FIM – ForeFront Identity Manager 2010 R2 is now available

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The new release of the Microsoft identity management, ForeFront Identity Manager 2010 R2, is now available. As part of the improvments, you will find: Support of Office 2010 and SharePoint Foundation Improved performance System Center Service Manager integration and much more. MSDN & TechNet subscribers can already download it from their respective portal. ​

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Windows 8 – Add a Restart and Shutdown to the Metro interface

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As you know, with Windows 8 there is a change to shutdown or restart your device. Indeed, you have to go to various menu and sub menu before being able to shutdown or restart. In case of you want to simplify and use the Metro interface, you can add button on the Metro to perform

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System Center–Download Add-ons for System Center 2012

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After releasing System Center 2012, Microsoft has also published some add-ons to provide additional features to manage your SC 2012 managed devices. As part of these add-ons, you will find tools and documentation for IT Governance as well as Private Clouds management. Go to http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=3C5C8C65-507F-4138-9BEE-8B10DDE1AD6F&displaylang=en&Prod=zSCz&type=zDLz&Loc=zYFCz Enjoy

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Exchange – CMDlets failed – Event ID 6 logged on MSExchange Management event logs

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While I was reviewing an Exchange 2010 SP1 architecture, I discovered lot of error event related to Exchange PowerShell (event id: 6) logged on MSExchange Management section below Application and Services main sub section in Event viewer, while no others events were logged on ‘classic’ event logs (application and system) and ExBPAS was not reporting

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SQL 2012 – Always On feature installation and configuration

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With SQL 2012, Microsoft has introduced a new high availability functionality called Always On. This feature allows you to manage high availability for specific set of database called Availability Database. For those who are familiar with Exchange 2010, this can be compared with DAG feature. Prerequisites installation To use Always On SQL feature you must

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