More Azure changes. Keeping up with this is difficult! Azure More changes announced: VPN Support for Azure Websites, Scalable CMS in the app gallery, role-based access control, and more stuff were announced yesterday. Update for Azure Backup for Microsoft Azure Recovery Services Agent: The agent now supports weekly backups with 120 retention points, and 9…
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Microsoft News Summary-21 May 2014
I took a break from these posts last week while I was at TechEd, and then had work catch up to do this week. Let’s get back a rockin’. There is a distinct tendency towards cloud and automation in the news of the last week. That should be no surprise. Microsoft Enhancing Office 365 ProPlus…
Microsoft News Summary–24 April 2014
Here’s some interesting bits from the last few days that I have not blogged: Update Rollup 2 for System Center 2012 R2 was released: As usual, you should wait a month before deploying these updates. Note that some of the updates require manual effort after the installation. In particular, the VMM and SCOM updates require…
News Roundup – February 22nd, 2011
A few different things have happened in the past couple of weeks so here’s a roundup. Internet Explorer 9 RTW IE9 was release by Microsoft with the usual claims of standards compliance, quicker browsing, better security, and so in. I can’t say if all that’s true or not; I stopped using IE8/9 during the IE9…
IBM Makes 200 Redundant in Ireland
200 people in the server manufacturing side of IBM are being made jobless, it was announced today. The work is being moved to Singapore.
You Know How Iceland Was To Become The New Digital Hub?
Lots of experts were predicting that Iceland was to become the new digital hub of the world. Abundant free geo thermal power, a cold climate, new gigantic connectors to the rest of the world, brand new data centres … and then something happened. Now what was it … I only saw something on the news…
More Than Half Of People Prefer To Buy PC’s In Shops
I just read this on Silicon Republic. 53% prefer the ability to ask questions and the ability to return a product without messing with couriers. I understand this. I’m wary of buying a PC online because features I value are not listed, e.g. can I enable DEP and CPU assisted virtualisation in the BIOS? As…
MS Merged Windows Server & Azure Divisions
Microsoft has announced that the Windows Server and Tools division will merge with Azure online services. This means that future developments can be integrated. We’ve already heard that VMM v.Next will allow you to migrate VM’s from your Hyper-V private could up to Azure. And with bolt-ons we know that we can integrate an internal…
Dell Plans To Terminate All Production In Europe
Silicon Republic has just reported this. As Dell winds down the Limerick (southwest Ireland) plant and transfers the remaining work to Lodz in Poland, they are also looking to transfer ownership of Lodz to Foxconn. This is subject to EU approval; I’m fairly sure (bit not entirely) that Dell got funding to set up in…
WebsiteSpark
Microsoft today announced a new program for small web development companies (less than 10 employees) called WebsiteSpark. Similar to BizSpark, it offers free software for 3 years for companies who develop websites for others. This software includes: 4 processor licenses of Windows Web Server 2008 R2 4 processor licenses of SQL Server 2008 Web Edition…