From the monthly archives:

June 2012

Google+ Events in Google Calendar

June 30, 2012

Posted by Michelle Chen, Software Engineer Today at Google I/O, we announced Google+ Events, a new way to create, capture and share public and private events. Google+ Events are seamlessly integrated with Google Calendar to simplify the planning process, so you’ll always know when you have something coming up. When creating a Google+ event, you [...]

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Chrome & Apps @ Google I/O: Your web, everywhere

June 29, 2012

[cross-posted from the Official Google Blog] This morning we kicked off day 2 at I/O to talk about the open web—one of the most amazing platforms we have seen. To put things in perspective, today there are more than 2.3 billion users on the web—a staggering number, but it only represents one-third of the world’s [...]

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Mailboxes on a database are Quarantined in an environment with System Center Operations Manager

June 29, 2012

We wanted to bring to your attention an issue that we have been seeing recently in CSS where many mailboxes on the same mailbox database become quarantined seemingly for no reason. Upon inspecting the Application log, you will see many 10018 events with text containing to the following information. Log Name: Application Source: MSExchangeIS Event [...]

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Introduction to Windows PowerShell scripting in Windows Server 2012 Remote Desktop Services

June 29, 2012

Hello all, my name is Travis Howe and I’m a developer on the Remote Desktop Virtualization team. One of the new features that we’re all very proud of in Windows Server 2012 is a new Windows PowerShell layer, which provides a powerful set of functionality to set up, configure, and control your Windows Server 2012 [...]

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CEO Of London’s Tech City Project Departs, As Global Tech Race Heats Up

June 28, 2012

Eric van der Kleij is to depart his post as CEO of the UK’s Tech City Investment Organisation (TCIO) after his two year contract comes to an end this Summer. The TCIO was set up by the UK government to promote East London’s pre-existing cluster of technology startups and is just one of hundreds of [...]

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New SQL Services in Windows Azure

June 28, 2012

As we shared with the launch of Windows Azure announced here, we are advancing our proven on-premises technologies into the cloud to offer customers the flexibility and efficiency of Hybrid IT. To continue to enable SQL Server customers in the cloud, we are offering Windows Azure SQL Reporting and the Preview of SQL Server in [...]

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Establishing Exchange Content Index Rebuild Baselines – Part 2

June 28, 2012

In Part 1 of this series, I explained the E2K7_IndexRebuildAnalyzer.ps1 script.  In this article, I will discuss the Search Rebuild Framework that Anatoly Girko and I developed. This framework was originally designed to provide our internal operations staff with a set of comprehensive validation steps and progress indicators they could leverage when performing rebuilds of [...]

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RD Connection Broker High Availability in Windows Server 2012

June 28, 2012

Hello, this is Jingyuan, Munindra, and Sriram from the Remote Desktop Virtualization team. There have been a couple of posts recently about the new Remote Desktop Services features in Windows Server 2012. This post provides an in-depth look into one of those features, the new high availability feature of RD Connection Broker known as the [...]

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Google unveils Android 4.1, Nexus 7, Glasses pre-order

June 28, 2012

So yeah, Google totally just won the conference showdown by easily beating both Apple and Microsoft. Not only did Google announce Android 4.1 with some really cool new features, a cheap but non-crippled tablet, and a new Android device called the Nexus Q, but they also opened up pre-orders for Google Glass. So yeah. OSNews

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Microsoft Outlook Configuration Analyzer Tool (OCAT) v2 released

June 27, 2012

OCAT download Documentation download As the original blog post about OCAT release was quite popular, we wanted to let you know that we have just released the version 2.0 of the tool, with many features that you have been asking for! If you have OCAT v1 installed, the installation of OCAT v2 will automatically remove [...]

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