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Backup / Restore Windows System Disks in Windows Azure 10 Aug 2013 | 07:47 am
As we all continue to embrace the Cloud (Windows Azure, in particular) as our machine-of-choice for commodity IT operations, the requirement to capture current-state VMs becomes a day-to-day reality f...
Windows Phone 8 – Nokia Lumia 920 10 Aug 2013 | 06:07 am
Okay, so not feeling that cutting edge with my Windows Phone 8 – Nokia Lumia 920 atm. I swapped out my beloved Motorola Atrix 2 (which I described fully in “My Shiny New Toy” in July 2012) for this de...
Windows Server 2008 “Stage 3 of 3” Fixes 1 Aug 2013 | 06:58 am
Lots of chatter on the web about this .. of course, who uses Windows Server 2008 when Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows Server 2012 have been released? Well, unfortunately, I do .. if only for a lit...
Active Directory in Windows Azure .. 26 Jul 2013 | 06:51 am
.. verry interesting. It’s more than a Laugh-In reference, however. The Windows Azure Identity folks have built out an amazing way to federate identity across multiple platforms and locations, hybrid...
Windows Azure SQL Database Premium Preview 24 Jul 2013 | 03:09 am
As of today, Microsoft is offering access to a limited preview of the new Windows Azure SQL Database Premium service. As opposed to non-Premium, the new offering provides reserved instances for databa...
Windows Azure GA Update: Web Sites, SSL and Mobile Services 19 Jul 2013 | 07:34 am
Wahoo .. Windows Azure Web Sites Standard Tier (Reserved are already in GA) are now released to General Availability, along with SSL support .. a big boon for folks seeking to deploy scalable, highly-...
Windows Azure Remote Desktop Services 16 Jul 2013 | 10:45 pm
Great news for the Virtual Desktop Interface (VDI) types out there: as of July 1, Microsoft now allows Remote Desktop Services (formerly called Terminal Services) licenses in Windows Azure Virtual Mac...
Seattle to Portland – STP 2013* (the ride with the asterisk) 15 Jul 2013 | 12:38 pm
For my third year, I had the pleasure to ride with 9,999 of my fellow bicycle riding buddies in the 2013 Seattle to Portland Bicycle Classic. The ride was approximately 203 miles this year, and I comp...
Windows Azure at WPC 10 Jul 2013 | 02:15 am
Finally taking a break, triple-tall-vanilla-soy-latte in hand and electrons flowing into my laptop. Windows Azure news from the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference 2013 in Houston: The Windows Azu...
Autoscaling in Windows Azure 6 Jul 2013 | 06:15 am
In better than 1/3 of my customer contacts, the term ‘autoscale’ comes up. This term (loosely defined) relates to increasing computing capacity to load levels (in non-fancy talk, it means you have eno...
