TWC9: Build & Edge on Demand, VS Code 1.0, React Native UWP, Windows 10...
This week on Channel 9, Nikola and Vlad are back and discuss the week’s top developer news, including; [00:39] Build 2016 On-Demand [02:02] Build Day One Keynote: [57:55] Xbox Dev Mode, with Ashley...
View ArticleLift-and-shift your workloads with Azure RemoteApp and Azure AD Domain Services
Azure AD Domain Services is a new solution, currently in public preview, primarily designed to simplify “lift-and-shift” scenarios in Azure IaaS; “lift-and-shift” is a strategy for moving your existing...
View ArticlePowerTip: Use PowerShell to display a percentage that has two decimal places
Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to display a percentage as a two place number. How can I use Windows PowerShell to display a number as a percentage that has two decimal places? Use the -f format...
View ArticleA Closer Look at Some Awesome Windows 10 Gaming Machines
At the recent Xbox Showcase event in San Francisco, we had a chance to take a look at some of this year’s biggest Windows 10 games, including recently released titles like Gears of War: Ultimate...
View ArticleUsing Repadmin with ADLDS and Lingering objects
Hi! Linda Taylor here from the UK Directory Services escalation team. This time on ADLDS, Repadmin, lingering objects and even PowerShell…. The other day a colleague was trying to remove a lingering...
View ArticleChanges to Disable Security Center Notifications in Windows 10
Hello Networking blog readers! Adam here with a quick blog to discuss changes to the Security Center Notifications registry keys. Before Windows 10, users could configure the following registry keys...
View ArticlePreview release of SQL Server Migration Assistant (SSMA) for SQL Server 2016 RC0
Microsoft has released a preview release of SQL Server Migration Assistant (SSMA) that supports migrating databases from Oracle, Sybase ASE, DB2, MySQL and Access up to SQL Server 2016 Release...
View ArticleMS16-APR – Microsoft Security Bulletin Summary for April 2016 – Version: 1.1
Revision Note: V1.1 (April 13, 2016): Added a Known Issues reference to the Executive Summaries table for MS16-039. For more information, see Microsoft Knowledge Base Article 3148522, and a Known...
View ArticleExpanding FastTrack to help Office 365 customers with end-user adoption
Today’s post was written by Cyril Belikoff, senior director of Office Marketing. Microsoft FastTrack, the customer success service for Office 365, is designed to help you move to the cloud and realize...
View ArticleOf cybercrime, the Dark Web, and Sun Tzu
Today, the “bad guys” of the Internet are both professional in their business tactics and entrepreneurial in how they leverage opportunity. The diversity and frequency of cybercriminal activity...
View ArticleFaster, Leaner, Focused on Your Development Needs: The New Visual Studio...
Visual Studio continues to grow in power and capability with each release. Our objective is to provide every developer with the tools you need to be successful whether you’re building mobile, cloud, or...
View ArticleNew Innovations for the Classroom with the Windows 10 Anniversary Update
At Build, we announced the Windows 10 Anniversary Update. Today, I’m excited to share additional features for educators and students, alongside other education news today from Microsoft. Today, Windows...
View ArticleSuccessful VDI Implementation for Financial Services
How to get everyone from management to end users on-board. read moreThe post Successful VDI Implementation for Financial Services appeared first on Windows Wide Open.
View ArticleConverged Architecture: Choose Your Management Tools Carefully
For most organizations, it can be painful to “rip and replace” older tools or management systems wholesale with the newer toolset of a converged infrastructure. It’s tempting to keep older tools that...
View ArticlePowerShell: Granting Computer Join Permissions
The principle of least privilege, as applied to Active Directory (AD), means that users should be granted only the minimum permissions necessary to complete their job functions. Here's how you can...
View ArticleCodeChat 059 – The State of Angular 2.0 with Brad Green | CodeChat
I was thrilled when Brad Green (@bradlygreen) of Google agreed to join me on CodeChat. I’m ramping up quickly on Angular 2.0 which hit beta status a few months ago. It’s a delightful framework and I’m...
View ArticleMonitoring and protecting sensitive data in Office 365
Microsoft IT created a solution to manage the risk of sharing sensitive data, while still promoting collaboration in Office 365. Power BI dashboards give insight into how Microsoft corporate users...
View ArticleMicrosoft® Spark ODBC Driver
Microsoft® Spark ODBC Driver is a connector to Apache Spark available as part of HDInsight Azure Service. The post Microsoft® Spark ODBC Driver appeared first on Windows Wide Open.
View ArticleMicrosoft SQL Server Migration Assistant v6.1.1 (Preview) for DB2
Microsoft SQL Server Migration Assistant (SSMA) for DB2 is a tool to automate migration from IBM DB2 database(s) to SQL Server and Azure SQL DB. The post Microsoft SQL Server Migration Assistant v6.1.1...
View ArticleBuilding a one-stop shop for business data needs with Power BI
Managing more than 400 million invoices, purchase orders, and patents a year—and supporting the businesses that create them—is a difficult challenge. Microsoft IT and the Corporate, External, and Legal...
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