{"id":17078,"date":"2014-09-10T10:10:09","date_gmt":"2014-09-10T10:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=17078"},"modified":"2014-09-10T10:10:09","modified_gmt":"2014-09-10T10:10:09","slug":"microsoft-news-summary-10-september-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=17078","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft News Summary &ndash; 10 September 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In other news, Apple proves that wearable devices are a pointless Gartner-esque fad, and those preachy tax-avoiding frakkers, U2, suck donkey balls.<\/p>\n<h2>Hyper-V<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.petri.com\/boot-hyper-v-virtual-machine-using-pxe.htm\">Boot a Hyper-V Virtual Machine Using PXE<\/a>: A post I wrote for Petri.com<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>System Center Operations Manager<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.windowsphone.com\/en-au\/store\/app\/om12-sizing-helper\/fc9173ad-8a89-44f2-91cf-62e7f6268964\">OM12 Sizing Helper<\/a>: This is a Windows Phone app version of the OpsMgr 2012 Sizing Helper document.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Azure<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/blog\/2014\/09\/09\/everything-you-ever-wanted-to-know-about-data-protection-and-more\/\">Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Data Protection and More<\/a>: A new <a href=\"http:\/\/go.microsoft.com\/fwlink\/?LinkID=398382&amp;clcid=0x409\">white paper<\/a> provides in-depth information about protecting critical data in Azure at every layer, whether structured or unstructured, in-transit, or at-rest.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/download\/details.aspx?id=44216\">Microsoft Azure Hybrid Connection Client<\/a>: This download installs the Hybrid Connection Client which enables your Azure VM or a Web\/Worker Role instance to access your on-premises data &amp; services using Hybrid Connections.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/documentation\/infographics\/azure\/\">Windows Azure Poster<\/a>: I&#8217;m sure this will be out of date by the end of the week (if not already).<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/contoso.se\/blog\/?p=4042\">Scaling Azure VM with Azure Automation, with help of Azure SQL<\/a>: Using Azure Automation to power down\/up VMs when they are not needed, i.e. save money.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.technet.com\/b\/canitpro\/archive\/2014\/09\/10\/step-by-step-enabling-a-primary-ad-fs-server-in-azure-for-office365-single-sign-on.aspx\">Step-By-Step &#8211; Enabling A Primary AD FS Server in Azure for Office365 Single Sign-On<\/a>: This Step-By-Step will provide instruction to setup a primary AD FS 3.0 server on a Windows Server 2012 R2 virtual machine in Azure. This is how you can overcome dependency on HQ Internet connection for roaming O365 users.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Miscellaneous<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/microsoft-rumored-to-be-poised-to-buy-minecraft-creator-for-2-billion-7000033501\">Microsoft rumored to be poised to buy Minecraft creator for $2 billion<\/a>: This blocky game is the hottest thing with kids. I&#8217;ve spent many an hour *cough* helping *yes, helping* with constructions &amp; adventures on an iPad and Xbox. And to be honest, it is a good problem solving game and it encourages kids to interact, based on what I&#8217;ve observed.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:9dd4cb33-4c54-43d5-ae09-c1b0b20edd3e\" 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\/Windows+Server+2012+R2\" rel=\"tag\">Windows Server 2012 R2<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Windows+Server+2012\" rel=\"tag\">Windows Server 2012<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Hyper-V\" rel=\"tag\">Hyper-V<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Virtualisation\" rel=\"tag\">Virtualisation<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Deployment\" rel=\"tag\">Deployment<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/System+Center\" rel=\"tag\">System Center<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Operations+Manager\" rel=\"tag\">Operations Manager<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Windows+Phone\" rel=\"tag\">Windows Phone<\/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>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Hybrid+Cloud\" rel=\"tag\">Hybrid Cloud<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/RDS\" rel=\"tag\">RDS<\/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\/Active+Directory\" rel=\"tag\">Active Directory<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Microsoft\" rel=\"tag\">Microsoft<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In other news, Apple proves that wearable devices are a pointless Gartner-esque fad, and those preachy tax-avoiding frakkers, U2, suck donkey balls. Hyper-V Boot a Hyper-V Virtual Machine Using PXE: A post I wrote for Petri.com System Center Operations Manager OM12 Sizing Helper: This is a Windows Phone app version of the OpsMgr 2012 Sizing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=17078\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Microsoft News Summary &ndash; 10 September 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":[169,170,172,59,174,65,181,185,83,87,134,189,193,195,114,118,120],"class_list":["post-17078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-microsoft","tag-active-directory","tag-azure","tag-cloud","tag-cloud-computing","tag-deployment","tag-hybrid-cloud","tag-hyper-v","tag-microsoft","tag-operations-manager","tag-powershell","tag-rds","tag-scripting","tag-system-center","tag-virtualisation","tag-windows-phone","tag-windows-server-2012","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\/17078","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=17078"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17079,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17078\/revisions\/17079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}