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More Win 8 Education is Needed
“My mail doesn’t work”. That’s what a colleague running Windows 8 said to me the day after he installed Windows 8 on his work laptop. “When I click my email, nothing comes up.” I took a look and...
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Top 8 New Features in Service Pack 1 for System Center 2012 Configuration...
In today's TechNet Radio show, Wally Mead, Senior Program Manager from the System Center Client Management team and all-around ConfigMgr Guru, joins me to discuss the recently announced features found...
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Free Windows Store and Phone Developer Accounts for MSDN Subscribers
If you are a member/subscriber to any of the following programs you are eligible to receive one-time, 12-month Windows Store and Windows Phone developer accounts. Visual Studio Professional with MSDN...
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Automatically Reset Theme To Default, SharePoint 2010
Manually/Through UIOn the top link bar, click Site Settings.On the Site Management page, in the Customization section, click Apply theme to site.On the Apply Theme to Web Site page, select No...
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Backup Azure Tables with the Enzo Backup API
In case you missed it, you can now backup (and restore) Azure Tables and SQL Databases using an API directly. The features available through the API can be found here:...
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Please patch IE on your PCs
Microsoft have issued a Critical patch KB2744842 for Version 6 through 9 of Internet Explorer.Details are at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/bulletin/ms12-063To apply please run Windows...
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Production Access Denied! Who caused this rule anyways?
One of the biggest challenges for developers is getting access to production servers. In smaller dev teams of 5 or less people everyone usually has access. Then you hire developer #6, he messes...
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Insanity–Day 1
Some people do those posts about “Here’s what I’m going to do to change my life”. I don’t really like those. I’m a “don’t tell me what you’re going to do, tell me what you’re doing/have done” type of...
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Patch your Windows PC Now
Even if you do not run Internet Explorer as your browser, you should run Windows Update as Microsoft have issued Critical patch KB2744842 for Versions 6 through 9 of Internet Explorer.Details are at...
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Real World Nuget
Why Nuget A higher level of granularity for managing references When you have solutions of many projects that depend on solutions of many projects etc à escape from Solution Hell. Links · Using A GUI...
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C-Sharpen Up at Philly.NET
On October 6th, I’ll be presenting at C-Sharpen Up at Philly.NET at the Microsoft Malvern, PA location. I’ll be presenting along with Stephen Bohlen, Andy Schwam, and Danilo Diaz. This is a great...
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Calculated Columns in Entity Framework Code First Migrations
I had a couple people ask me about calculated properties / columns in Entity Framework this week. The question was, is there a way to specify a property in my C# class that is the result of some...
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Cleaning Up After Chrome
I find Google Chrome, which I have no interest in, is continually getting installed on machines in my house, mostly due to Adobe Shockwave bringing it along as an install package. (Family members are...
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SanjayP’s venture after Microsoft involves no Microsoft
When I was at Microsoft, I always found Sanjay Parthasarathy to be a bright and passionate leader. While he was a bit disconnected at times with what was really going on out in the trenches, I...
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Stylecop 4.7.38.0 has been released
Stylecop 4.7.38.0 has been released at http://stylecop.codeplex.com/releases/view/79972The release notes follow:Move Registry functions into common Utils class. Styling fixes.Dictionary updatesStyling...
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Node.js Adventure - Storage Services and Service Runtime
When I described on how to host a Node.js application on Windows Azure, one of questions might be raised about how to consume the vary Windows Azure services, such as the storage, service bus, access...
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Capture a Query Executed By An Application Or User Against a SQL Server...
At times a Database Administrator, or even a developer is required to wear a spy’s hat. This necessity oftentimes is dictated by a need to take a glimpse into a black-box application for reasons...
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Virtualized data centre–Part three: Architecture
Having the basics (like discussed in the previous articles) is all good and well, but how do we get started on this?! It can be quite daunting after all! From my own point of view I can absolutely...
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Move over DFS and Robocopy, here is SyncToy!
Ever since Windows 2000, I have always had the need to replicate data to multiple endpoints with the same content. Until DFS was introduced, the method of thinking was to either manually copy the data...
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Adventures in Windows 8: Working around the navigation animation issues in...
LayoutAwarePage is a pretty cool add-on to Windows 8 apps, which facilitates greatly the implementation of orientation-aware (portrait, landscape) as well as state-aware (snapped, filled, fullscreen)...
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