{"id":17031,"date":"2014-08-27T08:34:30","date_gmt":"2014-08-27T08:34:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=17031"},"modified":"2014-08-27T08:34:30","modified_gmt":"2014-08-27T08:34:30","slug":"microsoft-news-summary-27-august-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=17031","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft News Summary &ndash; 27 August 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The rumours on \u201cThreshold\u201d are swirling through the Ethernets. Take nothing seriously until you see it for yourself on your own monitor.<\/p>\n<h2>Windows Server<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.technet.com\/b\/matthewms\/archive\/2014\/08\/26\/modernizing-your-infrastructure-with-hybrid-cloud-storage-spaces-in-windows-server-2012-r2-part-7.aspx\">Modernizing Your Infrastructure with Hybrid Cloud &#8211; Storage Spaces in Windows Server 2012 R2 (Part 7)<\/a>: A significant percentage of our JBOD sales are going to cloud implementations where \u20ac\/TB is important.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.technet.com\/b\/server-cloud\/archive\/2014\/08\/26\/best-practices-for-windows-server-2003-end-of-support-migration.aspx\">Best Practices for Windows Server 2003 End-of-Support Migration<\/a>: Windows Server 2003 End-of-Support is right around the corner (July 2015). <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/server-cloud\/products\/windows-server-2003\/?WT.mc_id=Blog_ServerCloud_General_TTD\">Windows Server 2003 support is ending July 14, 2015<\/a>: The official website.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/image13.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"image\" style=\"border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-left: 0px; display: block; margin-right: auto\" border=\"0\" alt=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/image_thumb13.png\" width=\"600\" height=\"85\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?tag=system-center\" target=\"_blank\">System Center<\/a> Operations Manager<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudadministrator.wordpress.com\/2014\/08\/26\/version-3-0-of-damians-and-my-script-to-download-all-scom-management-packs-with-powershell\/\">Version 3.0 of PowerShell Script to Download All SCOM Management Packs<\/a>: By Damian Flynn and Stanislav Zhelyazkov (both MVPs). Remember to read the instructions for each MP before importing!!!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Windows 9<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/windows-threshold-and-cadence-how-fast-is-too-fast-7000032943\">Windows &#8216;Threshold&#8217; and cadence: How fast is too fast?<\/a> I&#8217;m all for staying up to date, but asking businesses to upgrade every year is mad.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2014\/08\/26\/windows-9-upgrade-price\/\" target=\"_blank\">Big Windows 9 leak reveals \u2018awesome\u2019 upgrade pricing for XP and Windows 8 users<\/a>: Rumour central on pricing and more features.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Azure<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.technet.com\/b\/canitpro\/archive\/2014\/08\/26\/step-by-step-automate-azure-with-runbooks.aspx\">Step-By-Step: Automate Azure with Runbooks<\/a>: This functionality can, not just make life easier, but save you money!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:8c87e304-f848-4c08-9512-913adae7c65f\" 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\/Microsoft\" rel=\"tag\">Microsoft<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Windows+Server+2003\" rel=\"tag\">Windows Server 2003<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Windows+Server+2012+R2\" rel=\"tag\">Windows Server 2012 R2<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Storage\" rel=\"tag\">Storage<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Storage+Spaces\" rel=\"tag\">Storage Spaces<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Failover+Clustering\" rel=\"tag\">Failover Clustering<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Operations+Manager\" rel=\"tag\">Operations Manager<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Azure\" rel=\"tag\">Azure<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Cloud\" rel=\"tag\">Cloud<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Cloud+Computing\" rel=\"tag\">Cloud Computing<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The rumours on \u201cThreshold\u201d are swirling through the Ethernets. Take nothing seriously until you see it for yourself on your own monitor. Windows Server Modernizing Your Infrastructure with Hybrid Cloud &#8211; Storage Spaces in Windows Server 2012 R2 (Part 7): A significant percentage of our JBOD sales are going to cloud implementations where \u20ac\/TB is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=17031\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Microsoft News Summary &ndash; 27 August 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":[25],"tags":[170,172,59,63,185,83,99,100,115,120],"class_list":["post-17031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-microsoft","tag-azure","tag-cloud","tag-cloud-computing","tag-failover-clustering","tag-microsoft","tag-operations-manager","tag-storage","tag-storage-spaces","tag-windows-server-2003","tag-windows-server-2012-r2"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17031","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=17031"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17032,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17031\/revisions\/17032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}