February 2013 – Technical Rollup Mail - Platforms

 

News

Microsoft Grows Surface Family

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/Press/2013/Jan13/01-22SurfaceFamilyPR.aspx

Microsoft Advances the Cloud OS With New Management Solutions

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/Press/2013/Jan13/01-15OSMomentPR.aspx

FREE: Online Microsoft Virtual Academy Virtualization Jump Start Classes

https://blogs.technet.com/b/askcore/archive/2013/01/20/free-online-microsoft-virtual-academy.aspx

Error in Failover Cluster Manager after install of KB2750149

https://blogs.technet.com/b/askcore/archive/2013/01/14/error-in-failover-cluster-manager-after-install-of-kb2750149.aspx

Introducing Server Manager in Windows Server 2012

https://blogs.technet.com/b/askcore/archive/2012/11/04/introducing-server-manager-in-windows-server-2012.aspx

Just when you thought…..(Part 1)

https://blogs.technet.com/b/askcore/archive/2012/11/19/just-when-you-thought-part-1.aspx

Just when you thought… (Part 2)

https://blogs.technet.com/b/askcore/archive/2012/11/26/just-when-you-thought-part-2.aspx

Working with multiple network adapters in a virtual machine

https://blogs.technet.com/b/askcore/archive/2012/11/28/working-with-multiple-network-adapters-in-a-virtual-machine.aspx

Cluster-Aware Updating (CAU) interaction with Proxy Servers

https://blogs.technet.com/b/askcore/archive/2012/12/03/cluster-aware-updating-cau-interaction-with-proxy-servers.aspx

Behavior Change When Working with Pass-Through Disks in Windows Server 2012 Failover Clusters

https://blogs.technet.com/b/askcore/archive/2013/01/24/behavior-change-when-working-with-pass-through-disks-in-windows-server-2012-failover-clusters.aspx

Meet Windows 8

https://windows.microsoft.com/en-GB/windows-8/meet

Windows Virtualization Team Blog

https://blogs.technet.com/virtualization

The World Simplified is a Virtual World

https://blogs.technet.com/virtualworld

The App-V Product Team Blog

https://blogs.technet.com/appv

The Official MDOP Blog

https://blogs.technet.com/mdop

Ask the Directory Services Team

https://blogs.technet.com/askds

Ask the Performance Team

https://blogs.technet.com/askperf

Microsoft Enterprise Networking Team

https://blogs.technet.com/networking

Ask the Core Team

https://blogs.technet.com/askcore

Ntdebugging Blog

https://blogs.msdn.com/ntdebugging

The Hot Blog

https://blogs.technet.com/hot

TRM

https://blogs.technet.com/trm/default.aspx

Downloads

Microsoft Security Compliance Manager

This Solution Accelerator provides centralized security baseline management features, a baseline portfolio, customization capabilities, and security baseline export flexibility to accelerate your organization’s ability to efficiently manage the security and compliance process for the most widely used Microsoft technologies.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=16776

Test Lab Guide: Demonstrate DirectAccess Single Server Setup with Mixed IPv4 and IPv6 in Windows Server 2012

This paper contains an introduction to Unified Remote Access and step-by-step instructions for extending the Windows Server 2012 Base Configuration test lab to demonstrate DirectAccess deployment in a single server deployment with a mixed environment of IPv4 and IPv6

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=29031

Test Lab Guide: Demonstrate DirectAccess Simplified Setup in an IPv4-only Test Environment in Windows Server 2012

This paper contains an introduction to Windows Server 2012 Remote Access and step-by-step instructions for extending the Windows Server 2012 Base Configuration test lab to demonstrate Remote Access deployment using the Getting Started Wizard.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=29029

HPC Pack 2008 R2 SP4 Fix for Issues Managing Windows Azure Nodes

This update fixes several issues related to Windows Azure compute nodes

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=36506

Microsoft Garage Mouse without Borders

Mouse without Borders is a product that makes you the captain of your computer fleet by allowing you to control up to four computers from a single mouse and keyboard. This means that with Mouse without Borders you can copy text or drag and drop files across computers.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=35460

Files for Updatable Help for Windows PowerShell module Microsoft.PowerShell.Host

This download contains the files Update-Help needs in a network that is not connected to the Internet. They are the same files that Save-Help downloads.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=36475

Windows Azure Training Kit - December 2012

Windows Azure Training Kit includes a comprehensive set of technical content to help you learn how to use Windows Azure.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=8396

Technorati Tags: windows,platforms,HPC,DirectAccess,Cloud,Surface

Microsoft Events:

Full list can be found at: https://www.microsoft.com/events/default.mspx

Interactive Webcast Calendar

The interactive calendar will help you quickly find live webcasts that fit your schedule as well as on-demand webcasts to view at your convenience. You can choose your time zone and filter this list by audience, webcast series, product or topic, and presenter.

https://www.microsoft.com/events/webcasts/calendar/monthview.aspx

Monthly Archived Webcasts:

https://www.microsoft.com/events/webcasts/library/default.mspx