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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

  1. 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

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