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Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V Introduces DHCP Guard

Wed, 22 May 2013 20:08:00 +0000

DHCP guard prevents virtual machines from acting as a DHCP server.

Get Your Hands on the Latest Windows 8 User Guide

Wed, 22 May 2013 18:53:00 +0000

With Windows 8.1 on its way to everyone, this new brochure should help reignite the wonder of learning the new operating system.

We Didn't Need a Study to Know that the iPad Can Stop Your Heart, Just the Manual

Wed, 22 May 2013 18:19:00 +0000

Not to take anything away from the High School freshman, I'm positive there were many hours of research performed and lots of notes compiled to produce a stellar exhibit and report. However, if she would have just read the manual

5 Ways Your VMware and Hyper-V Backups May Fail You

Wed, 22 May 2013 18:08:00 +0000

Microsoft Builds an Angie's List for Partner Selection

Wed, 22 May 2013 17:44:00 +0000

Microsoft has recently rolled out PartnerPulse, a Microsoft Partner Community where visitors can use search tools to locate a registered partner by location, product and competency.

Watch Bill Gates and Steven Spielberg Help Build Xbox One Excitement

Wed, 22 May 2013 16:29:00 +0000

In addition to the Xbox One unveil video, Microsoft has produced a dramatic piece enlisting the help of normal people, celebrities and even Bill Gates to build excitement about Microsoft's consumer entertainment release, the Xbox One.

Truth in IT: Series Introduction

Wed, 22 May 2013 13:45:00 +0000

At WindowsITPro we feel an obligation and responsibility, not just to our loyal readers, but to IT in general, to sift through the topics of the day and create a truthful discussion about the future of IT.

Raising the Hyper-V Backup Standard

Wed, 22 May 2013 13:03:00 +0000

The CSI Effect: Not everyone wants a Kinect camera in their living room

Wed, 22 May 2013 02:33:00 +0000

While it’s possible to make the technical argument that your privacy is safe, on the TV, it’s possible for a nefarious hacker to take over the camera in your living room.

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CAU in Windows Server 2012

Tue, 21 May 2013 22:03:00 +0000

John Savill demonstrates how to patch a cluster with Cluster-Aware Updating (CAU) in Windows Server 2012.

Cluster-Aware Updating in Windows Server 2012

Tue, 21 May 2013 21:30:00 +0000

Patching Server 2012 failover clusters just got a whole lot easier

Cluster-Aware Updating (CAU) is a new capability in Windows Server 2012's Failover Clustering feature. With CAU, the update process for an entire Server 2012 failover cluster can be performed automatically.

Windows Server 2012: Shared Storage Live Migration

Tue, 21 May 2013 21:13:00 +0000

How to set up Shared Storage Live Migration in Windows Server 2012

Shared Storage Live Migration reduces planned downtime by allowing you to move VMs from a Hyper-V host that needs maintenance to another Hyper-V host.

PowerShell Basics: Variables

Tue, 21 May 2013 20:44:00 +0000

Variables are an integral part of how PowerShell works

Understanding PowerShell variables is important because variables are such an integral part of how PowerShell works.

Configuring Shared Storage Live Migration on a Two-Node Cluster

Tue, 21 May 2013 20:13:00 +0000

Michael Otey demonstrates how to set up Shared Storage Live Migration in Windows Server 2012.

The Big Deal about Big Data

Tue, 21 May 2013 19:30:00 +0000

Big Data is definitely one of the most important trends in IT today. Big Data is important because it enables organizations to derive new decision-making information from previously untapped data sources. Like Business Intelligence (BI) Big Data is all about making better and faster business decisions and gaining a competitive business advantage.

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New Hybrid Cloud Whitepaper Confirms Azure is the Future

Tue, 21 May 2013 18:48:00 +0000

A new whitepaper lays out, not only Microsoft's strategy, but also the full spectrum of technologies Microsoft is producing to help with the transition to the public cloud.

Microsoft BYOD Test Lab Guides Updated

Tue, 21 May 2013 17:51:00 +0000

The BYOD Test Lab Guides have been around for a bit, but they have just been updated to include new areas of coverage.

Microsoft Reveals Next-Gen Console, Xbox One

Tue, 21 May 2013 17:43:00 +0000

The next Xbox is looking good, but no surprises yet

At a gala event at its Redmond campus, Microsoft on Tuesday revealed that its next-generation Xbox video game console will be named Xbox One and will include the expected feature-set, including a bundled next-generation Kinect sensor and Blu-Ray optical drive. The system will hit the market in November alongside Sony’s PlayStation 4.

Sharp Corp Provides Full MFP Support for Windows 8 and Windows RT

Tue, 21 May 2013 15:28:00 +0000

Sharpdesk Mobile provides the ability for Windows 8 users to receive and preview documents scanned by the Sharp MFP and also download the scanned documents from the networked device.

On Eve of Xbox Reveal, Microsoft Issues Defense of Gaming Market

Tue, 21 May 2013 14:20:00 +0000

If only things were really this rosy in the video game market

While Xbox has given Microsoft a valuable consumer brand with absurdly loyal customers, it has also paradoxically never directly repaid the billions of dollars in R&D that Microsoft invested, let alone the unexpected warranty repair costs of the current-generation console. But on the eve of a reveal event for its third Xbox device, Microsoft issued an interesting defense of the video game console, arguing among other things that more people are playing games than ever before.

Dell Dumps Cloud Aspirations

Tue, 21 May 2013 12:12:00 +0000

Whether it's due to the lengthy process of deciding how the Dell company will move forward, or that Microsoft is ready with a large, monetary contribution to help Dell's future, Dell has announced they will be stepping off the Cloud train.

The rather splendid Exchange 2013 server calculator

Tue, 21 May 2013 10:00:00 +0000

The old adage is that you wait forever for a bus and then two come along in quick succession. So it is with Exchange 2013 hardware planning tools with the May 6 article on performance planning methodology being followed by by a May 14 release of an updated mailbox role calculator. All seems well and there's lots of goodness in the Excel-driven calculator. But do remember to engage your brain as recommendations derived by software are not always (or ever) perfect.

Tony Redmond's Exchange Unwashed

Azure Is the Future of Microsoft

Tue, 21 May 2013 04:00:00 +0000

Windows, Windows, Windows . . . Hmmm . . . Maybe not anymore

The market for on-premises servers and infrastructure is coming to an end. The future is the cloud, which for Microsoft means Azure.

Adobe Brings 'Shoppin to Windows 8

Mon, 20 May 2013 22:34:00 +0000

Adobe has released a touch version of their Photoshop app, called Adobe Photoshop Express.

Keep Sysinternals Utilities Up-to-Date with SyncTools

Mon, 20 May 2013 21:23:00 +0000

Kenny Kerr has developed an executable that will pull down all of the latest and most current Sysinternals tools from the Microsoft-hosted web location where they all reside. You only need to download the tool, stick it into a directory that you specify, and run it.

Four Sysinternals Utils Get Updated, One is a Major Release

Mon, 20 May 2013 18:09:00 +0000

Four different Systinternals utilities were updated late last week: AccessChk, Procdump, RAMMap, and Strings. Of those released, Procdump version 6.0 is a major upgrade.

Spiff Up Your Surface Pro or Surface RT with New Themes

Mon, 20 May 2013 17:49:00 +0000

I hear from folks quite a bit who are now bored with the stock themes that Microsoft offers for the Surface Pro and Surface RT, so this is your chance to make some changes.

The Microsoft Transition and How It Will Affect You

Mon, 20 May 2013 16:02:00 +0000

Where is Microsoft going with Windows, Office, and its other products in this age of services? Paul examines Microsoft's ongoing transition and evaluates how it will affect you.

Yahoo! to Purchase Tumblr for $1.1 Billion

Mon, 20 May 2013 13:54:00 +0000

Yahoo takes a step into the 21st century with a new media brand

Struggling online giant Yahoo this morning revealed its plans to purchase Tumblr, a blogging service with over 300 million unique users. In a quirky press release, the firm said it wouldn’t “screw it up,” and would instead allow Tumblr to be independently operated as a separate business.

Where are the Touchscreen Windows “Retina” Laptops?

Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:00 +0000

Retina displays are a bit like well made furniture. You don’t necessarily notice the difference when you’re sitting in front of one, but if you use one for a while and return to a non-retina screen, you wonder if you can unsee the pixels.

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