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System Center Community/MVP Update
As many of you have probably seen today, I have announced my resignation from Microsoft to go to a...
Author: Alex Guy Date: 09/25/2013
Empowering End Users via Automation
By Jeremy Thake, VP of Global Product Innovation at AvePoint Inc. You’ve got your Microsoft...
Author: Steven Mullaghan Date: 09/25/2013
End of support for Java SE 6
If you’re running Java SE 6, we have some news for you: Oracle stopped providing public...
Author: Alex Guy Date: 09/24/2013
#TechNetTidy – The good, the bad and the dangerous.
Last month, we at Microsoft were acting good on our monthly theme of sprucing up over the summer. I...
Author: Steven Mullaghan Date: 09/24/2013
Become an IT transformer: Create a battle plan
By Asavin Wattanajantra, writer at Metia. In a busy IT department it can be difficult to think about...
Author: Steven Mullaghan Date: 09/24/2013
Common Uses & Examples of Automation
By David Allen, Microsoft System Center MVP. IT process automation is the ability to orchestrate and...
Author: Steven Mullaghan Date: 09/24/2013
Windows Azure Virtual Machines–neue VM-Größe verfügbar A5 ( 2 Cores, 14 GB RAM)
Hallo @all, ab heute steht in Windows Azure eine neue Virtual-Machine-Größe zur Verfügung. Sie wird...
Author: Alex Guy Date: 09/24/2013
Support relief – how automation eliminated most of our manual management tasks
By John Berkoski - Head of Consulting, PointBeyond Ltd Our consulting business focuses on developing...
Author: Steven Mullaghan Date: 09/23/2013
Gadgets for the IT guy: FitBit Flex
This month Microsoft Evangelist Simon May tries out the FitBit Flex activity tracker and works out...
Author: Si May Date: 09/23/2013
Lab Ops 2–The Lee-Robinson Script
In my last post I mentioned how Marcus Robinson & had adapted PowerShell scripts by Thomas Lee...
Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 09/20/2013
Software Defined
Software defined … [insert technical term here] is the latest marketing phrase headlining...
Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 09/19/2013
Enterprise Devices, great reads: 18 September 2013
The best enterprise client reads of the past week, including Windows 8.1, why Intel tablets are...
Author: Si May Date: 09/18/2013
Tech.Days Online – November 6-8: All the sessions and an interview with Steve Ballmer
Here is the programme of sessions for each day of Tech.Days Online from Wednesday November 6-8. We...
Author: Steven Mullaghan Date: 09/16/2013
7 ways of identifying a Super-Duper SharePoint Support Person
By Geoff Evelyn, SharePoint MVP and owner of SharePointGeoff.com. Look through the job...
Author: Steven Mullaghan Date: 09/05/2013
Information Protection mit Windows Azure (& Office365)
Hallo @all, auf der TechEd Europe 2013 gab es eine sehr interessante Session: Information Protection...
Author: Alex Guy Date: 09/02/2013
#TechNetTidy Competition
How tidy is your physical environment? Have you any cabling left lying around or temporarily put in...
Author: Steven Mullaghan Date: 08/29/2013
#TechNetTidy Terms & Conditions
- ELIGIBILITY. This promotion is open to any person resident in the United Kingdom who is eighteen...
Author: Steven Mullaghan Date: 08/28/2013
Microsoft Master - Antonio Vargas, Exchange Extraordinaire.
Last month it was brought to my attention the achievements of Antonio Vargas, a Microsoft Exchange...
Author: Steven Mullaghan Date: 08/28/2013
The Annual SharePoint MOT - 5 Reasons to do a SharePoint Health Check this Summer
By Simon Wright, Managing Consultant at PointBeyond Ltd As summer takes a firm hold and thoughts...
Author: Steven Mullaghan Date: 08/23/2013
Gadgets for the IT guy: The Jawbone Jambox
In his new column Microsoft Infrastructure Evangelist Simon May explores gadgets that the average IT...
Author: Si May Date: 08/23/2013
Cutting the cost of IT: What's your virtualisation strategy?
By Asavin Wattanajantra, Digital Copywriter at Metia Have you virtualised your datacentre?...
Author: Steven Mullaghan Date: 08/23/2013
10 reasons all businesses can benefit from Windows 8.1
By Asavin Wattanajantra, Digital Copywriter at Metia On April 8 2014, Microsoft will be ending...
Author: Steven Mullaghan Date: 08/23/2013
Green IT Fatigue
I recently got asked to do an interview on for TechWeek Europe about green initiatives in the IT...
Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 08/22/2013
UK Data in the Cloud
There is still a lot of inertia in the UK about storing data in the cloud for entirely valid reasons...
Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 08/21/2013
Better Together - The New Windows Server 2012 R2 Innovations – Download Now
There are quite a few products that make up the Microsoft Cloud OS vision. Windows Server 2012 R2 is...
Author: Alex Guy Date: 08/20/2013
Reversal of fortune: Sirefef’s registry illusion
I have mentioned in a previous blog that the use of the right-to-left-override (U+202E)...
Author: Alex Guy Date: 08/19/2013
Different Strokes for Different Folks
By Anthony Sutcliffe - IT Team Leader at Delphi Diesel Systems At a recent IT Pro council meeting,...
Author: Steven Mullaghan Date: 08/19/2013
The Best of Best: August 19th
The best articles that I've found for Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows 8 and the...
Author: Si May Date: 08/19/2013
Information Security Checklist: Is Your SharePoint Data Safe & Secure?
By Robert B. Yonaitis, CIPP/IT, VP of Software Engineering and Standards at AvePoint Everywhere you...
Author: Steven Mullaghan Date: 08/19/2013
A month of Lunchtimes
I am on the weird fasting diet thing of 600 cals twice a week and inevitably this means that lunch...
Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 08/19/2013
Time to Learn PowerShell?
By Thomas Lee – Powershell MVP. PowerShell is Microsoft’s task automation platform for...
Author: Steven Mullaghan Date: 08/19/2013
Enterprise Collaboration and the Cost of Doing Business
By John Hodges, VP of Global Account Product Management, AvePoint A recent survey commissioned by...
Author: Steven Mullaghan Date: 08/16/2013
System Center 2012 R2 Available October 18th
In important news today, we are extremely excited that on October 18th, eligible customers will able...
Author: Alex Guy Date: 08/14/2013
Microsoft Valuable Penguin
I sometimes think the IT industry is a bit like a load of penguins on the pack ice, each one...
Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 08/13/2013
SQL Server Spruce up
Landrovers, will take a lot of pounding and neglect, but when my wife drove hers to Australia she...
Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 08/08/2013
Spruce Up your Data Centre
The summer holidays can generally be a quiet time for some IT Pros, depending on the industry you...
Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 08/07/2013
Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC) Progress Report (July 2013)
The fifth annual Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC) progress report is now available and...
Author: Steven Mullaghan Date: 08/06/2013
New System Center Courses on Microsoft Virtual Academy (MVA)!
Hopefully everybody has been reading and enjoying the “What’s New in 2012 R2?”...
Author: Alex Guy Date: 08/01/2013
How to Create a Basic Plan Using the Service Administration Portal
This post is a part of the nine-part “What’s New in Windows Server & System Center...
Author: Alex Guy Date: 08/01/2013
How to Integrate Your Billing System with the Usage Metering System
This post is a part of the nine-part “What’s New in Windows Server & System Center...
Author: Alex Guy Date: 08/01/2013
Creating Usage Analytics Reports using Excel
This post is a part of the nine-part “What’s New in Windows Server & System Center...
Author: Alex Guy Date: 08/01/2013
Using Server Inventory Reports to Help Stay Compliant with Service Provider Licensing Agreement (SPLA)
This post is a part of the nine-part “What’s New in Windows Server & System Center...
Author: Alex Guy Date: 08/01/2013
Installing SQL Server in a Virtual World
I do get occasional feedback that SQL Server is hard to install, all those screens all those...
Author: Andrew.Fryer Date: 07/29/2013