From the monthly archives:

August 2012

One of us: What it was like to interview for a support role at Microsoft

August 31, 2012

Hello, Kim here again. We get many questions about what to expect when interviewing at Microsoft. I’m coming up on my two year anniversary at Microsoft and I thought I would share my experience in the hope that it might help you if you are interested in applying to Microsoft Support; if nothing else, there [...]

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ShoutEm Launches Development Platform To Make HTML5 Mobile Apps Look Native

August 31, 2012

When ShoutEm was first launched back in 2008, it was focused on helping users to build their own social networking platforms. Well, the world has changed, and since then, it’s transitioned the business as a platform that can be used to build mobile applications. But not everyone needs (or wants) a native app — so [...]

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* Apple vs. DRI: the other look-and-feel lawsuit *

August 30, 2012

We all know about Apple’s look-and-feel lawsuit against Microsoft over Windows 2.0, but this wasn’t the only look-and-feel lawsuit Apple filed during those years. Digital Research, Inc., the company behind GEM, also found itself on the pointy end of Apple’s needle. Unlike the lawsuit against Microsoft, though, Apple managed to ‘win’ the one against DRI. [...]

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Using EAC to manage multi-forest Exchange deployments

August 30, 2012

Following our last article, introducing the new Exchange Administration Center (EAC), we follow up on how the new EAC makes it really easy to manage multi-forest Exchange deployments. As described here, Exchange Server 2010 can be deployed in a cross-forest or resource-forest topology. For the purpose of this article, we will employ the same approach [...]

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Important note on DPM 2012 and the Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V replica role

August 29, 2012

Hello, Shane Brasher here, and I wanted to take a minute today to talk to you about a Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V / System Center 2012 Data Protection Manager (DPM) SP1 supportability issue. First let’s briefly discuss an exciting new feature of Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V. There is a new functionality added to the Hyper-V [...]

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Exchange, Stubbing, and Database Space Reclamation

August 28, 2012

Exchange 2010 SP2 RU1 contained a fix for an issue regarding database space reclamation. There seems to be some confusion around this issue, so I’d like to explain what the problem was, what the fix is, and discuss expectations when the use of third-party products stub items within the database (stubbing is the process whereby [...]

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A new apps list on Chrome OS

August 28, 2012

One theme we hear repeatedly from Chrome OS users is how much they enjoy the speed and simplicity of their Chromebooks. With this week’s stable release of Chrome OS, we’ve redesigned the apps list experience to make it easier to access your favorite apps and websites. Notably, we made the apps list much more compact, [...]

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Denny Cherry Guest Post: Get Ready for PASS Summit 2012

August 28, 2012

Guest Blog Post by: Denny Cherry, MVP and Independent Consultant (www.mrdenny.com | blog.mrdenny.com) The SQL PASS Summit, being held in Seattle Washington this year, is the premier conference for SQL Server professionals.  Attending the SQL PASS conference is a bit of a different experience than attending other conferences such as Microsoft TechEd, Build, Connections, etc. [...]

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DFS Namespace Scalability Considerations

August 27, 2012

In this blog post, let me touch on a topic that I frequently get questions on from customers. Most namespace scalability questions are along one of the following lines: I want to put x number of DFS folders in one DFS namespace, does this work? Does this matter if I put these x DFS folders [...]

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Shutl Preps US Launch For Same Day Delivery After $2m Round Led by UPS

August 27, 2012

It feels like the zombie-like resurgence of Urban Fetch and Kozmo from the late 90s, but delivering stuff to your house, like right now, is so hot… right now. Thus SF startup PostMates is trying to crack the model locally, while big guys like Amazon Prime and eBay poise to try to hoover it all [...]

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