Send money to friends with Gmail and Google Wallet

May 21, 2013

Posted by Travis Green, Product Manager, Google Wallet Paying back your friends is now as simple as sending an email, whether you’re chipping in for lunch or reimbursing your roommate for your share of the rent. Google Wallet is now integrated with Gmail, so you can quickly and securely send money to friends and family [...]

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The Chromebook Pixel, for what’s next

May 21, 2013

Chromebooks were designed to make computing speedy, simple and secure. For many of you, they have become the perfect, additional (and yes, affordable) computer: ideal for catching up on emails, sharing documents and chatting via Hangouts. We’re tremendously grateful to our partners—Samsung, Acer, Lenovo and HP—for their commitment. The momentum has been remarkable: the Samsung [...]

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Using Exchange Web Services to Apply a Personal Tag to a Custom Folder

May 21, 2013

In Exchange 2010, we introduced Retention Tags, a Messaging Records Management (MRM) feature that allows you to manage email lifecycle. You can use retention policies to retain mailbox data for as long as it’s required to meet business or regulatory requirements, and delete items older than the specified period. One of the design goals for [...]

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Day 1: PASS Business Analytics Conference, The Art of Analytics

May 20, 2013

For the latest and greatest on business intelligence and business analytics, look no further than the PASS Business Analytics Conference, which kicks off today in Chicago. At a time when data is increasingly at the forefront of the industry conversation, this event offers an opportunity to go deep and take a look at how business [...]

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* Why Google gets so much credit *

May 19, 2013

Why does Google get so much credit in the technology industry? Why, despite the company’s many obvious failings, do many geeks and enthusiasts still hold a somewhat positive view on the all-knowing technology giant? A specific talk at Google I/O this week provides the answer. Read more on this exclusive OSNews article… OSNews

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Supporting Windows 8 Mail App in the Enterprise

May 19, 2013

In a recent project we faced an interesting problems using the Windows 8 Mail App. Windows 8 include a built-in email app named Mail (also referred to as Windows 8 Mail or the Windows 8 Mail app). We used a Standard User Account without any local Admin privileges, logged on to the Domain and tried [...]

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David Karp’s Dilemma

May 19, 2013

As the Tumblr/Yahoo deal continues to be negotiated by press, and the world gears up for whatever is being announced Monday morning, Tumblr founder David Karp is probably having a very interesting weekend. It’s likely, in between multiple discussions with his board members and Marissa Mayer, that he’ll take a break, like a walk or [...]

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Deploying Drivers and Firmware to Surface Pro

May 18, 2013

In the last month the Surface Pro team have started releasing driver and firmware packs that include all on the drivers and firmware required for Surface Pro. This pack is a simple zip file that contains all of the drivers as INF files that can be installed with out requiring an executable, which for those [...]

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DPM and System State Backup Explained

May 18, 2013

Chris Butcher | Senior Support Escalation Engineer Hello again folks, this is Chris Butcher and I realized it has been too long since my last blog post. I recently worked with a customer and through our conversations realized that there is a lack of information out there on how System Center 2012 Data Protection Manager [...]

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We’re back. Did you miss us?

May 18, 2013

Hey all, David here.  Now that we’ve broken the silence, we here on the DS team felt that we owed you, dear readers, an explanation of some sort.  Plus, we wanted to talk about the blog itself, some changes happening for us, and what you should hopefully be able to expect moving forward.   So, what [...]

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