{"id":16538,"date":"2014-05-21T13:27:08","date_gmt":"2014-05-21T13:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=16538"},"modified":"2014-05-21T13:27:08","modified_gmt":"2014-05-21T13:27:08","slug":"microsoft-news-summary-21-may-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=16538","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft News Summary-21 May 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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\u2019s get back a rockin\u2019. There is a distinct tendency towards cloud and automation in the news of the last week. That should be no surprise.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/redmondmag.com\/articles\/2014\/05\/14\/microsoft-enhancing-office-365.aspx\">Microsoft Enhancing Office 365 ProPlus Management Capabilities<\/a>: Click-to-run updates will be faster. Admins can selectively block updates. And more \u2026<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/powershell\/archive\/2014\/05\/19\/announcing-windows-powershell-desired-state-configuration-for-linux.aspx\">Announcing Windows PowerShell Desired State Configuration for Linux<\/a>: If you run a large data center with lots of admin driven deployment then you should look at DSC. And wait for it \u2026 DSC is now a CTP release on Linux!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.technet.com\/b\/privatecloud\/archive\/2014\/05\/19\/powershell-dsc-for-linux-step-by-step.aspx\">PowerShell DSC for Linux, Step by Step<\/a>: Put the DSC for Linux into action.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/splalicensing.com\/2014\/05\/19\/why-spla\/\">Why SPLA<\/a>? Why would you go with the Microsoft Services Provider License Agreement (SPLA) instead of OEM or volume licensing? That is followed by the <a href=\"http:\/\/splalicensing.com\/2014\/05\/14\/200-level-spla-license-questions-answered\/\">SPLA level 200 FAQ<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.petri.co.il\/it-pro-perspective-of-teched-2014.htm\">An IT Pro\u2019s Perspective of TechEd 2014<\/a>: My take, on Petri, on how Microsoft related to IT pros at the TechEd NA 2014 keynote.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.office.com\/2014\/05\/13\/choosing-a-sign-in-model-for-office-365\/\">Choosing a sign-in model for Office 365<\/a>: Native, DirSync or ADFS &amp; DirSync? Learn the differences.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.technet.com\/b\/privatecloud\/archive\/2014\/05\/09\/powershell-dsc-blog-series-part-3-testing-dsc-resources.aspx\">PowerShell DSC Blog Series \u2013 Part 3, Testing DSC Resources<\/a>: Testing PowerShell Desired State Configuration resources during the authoring process.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.technet.com\/b\/privatecloud\/archive\/2014\/05\/13\/deployment-at-last-a-gui-for-pdt.aspx\">Deployment\u2013At last, a GUI for PDT<\/a>!!! Benedict Berger and Kamil Kosek from Elanity Network Partner have produced something they call \u201cPDT GUI\u201d. It will load and edit Variable.xml files using a very nicely designed simple GUI. It doesn\u2019t yet allow for all PDT possibilities \u2013 some of the advanced scenarios such as clustering are not included (yet) \u2013 but it really is an excellent way to get started with PDT without the fear of XML.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/kb\/2963543\">Description of Update Rollup 2 for System Center 2012 R2 Data Protection Manager<\/a>: The UR2 for DPM 2012 R2 is fixed \u2026 allegedly. Don&#8217;t go rushing it out!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/kb\/2965415\">Driver file copying goes slowly during bare-metal deployment in System Center 2012 R2 VMM<\/a>: When you use System Center 2012 R2 Virtual Machine Manager (VMM R2) to provision a physical computer as a virtual machine host (also known as bare-metal deployment), it may take longer than expected to install matching device drivers. No fix shared yet.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/preview.systemcenteradvisor.com\/\">System Center Advisor Preview Opened Up<\/a>: Anyone can sign up now.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/clustering\/archive\/2014\/05\/08\/10523860.aspx\">Deploying SQL Server 2014 with Cluster Shared Volumes<\/a>: CSV is now a supported storage file system for SQL Server 2014 failover cluster instances (FCI).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:83c8db3e-756e-40de-a6c3-30bc1d1b6ea5\" class=\"wlWriterEditableSmartContent\" style=\"float: none; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px\">Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Office+365\" rel=\"tag\">Office 365<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/PowerShell\" rel=\"tag\">PowerShell<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Scripting\" rel=\"tag\">Scripting<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Licensing\" rel=\"tag\">Licensing<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Events\" rel=\"tag\">Events<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/System+Center\" rel=\"tag\">System Center<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/DPM\" rel=\"tag\">DPM<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/VMM\" rel=\"tag\">VMM<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/SQL\" rel=\"tag\">SQL<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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\u2019s get back a rockin\u2019. 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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=16538\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Microsoft News Summary-21 May 2014&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[175,177,183,81,87,189,192,193,196],"class_list":["post-16538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-dpm","tag-events","tag-licensing","tag-office-365","tag-powershell","tag-scripting","tag-sql","tag-system-center","tag-vmm"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16538"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16539,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16538\/revisions\/16539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}