{"id":17108,"date":"2014-09-17T08:31:12","date_gmt":"2014-09-17T08:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=17108"},"modified":"2014-09-17T08:31:13","modified_gmt":"2014-09-17T08:31:13","slug":"microsoft-news-summary-17-september-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=17108","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft News Summary &ndash; 17 September 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft&#8217;s patch woes continue. A September update for Lync was pulled this week. Please: do not approve updates immediately; wait 1 month and let some other mug find the bugs for Microsoft.<\/p>\n<h2>Azure<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/blog\/2014\/09\/16\/scale-is-never-a-problem-with-azure-websites\/\">Scale is never a problem with Azure Websites<\/a>: Starting today, Azure Websites supports above 10 load balanced instances. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Networking<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.technet.com\/b\/messageanalyzer\/archive\/2014\/09\/15\/announcing-the-message-analyzer-1-1-release.aspx\">Announcing the Message Analyzer 1.1 Release<\/a>: The completely indecipherable replacement for Network Monitor has just been upgraded to v1.1. I find this replacement for NetMon to be a complete mystery and the UI looks like something Symantec would come up with (random). It&#8217;s no wonder WireShark remains the #1 choice.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=fj0b46hDN5s\">Introduction to Message Analyzer 1.1<\/a>: A YouTube video to give you a high-level introduction to Message Analyzer 1.1. Includes a run-through of the UI and an overview of general features. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Deployment<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/kb\/2981666\/\">WDS multicasting deployment results in corrupted installation images on cluster nodes<\/a>: Hotfix &#8211; Windows Deployment Services (WDS) multicasting deployment may result in corrupted installation images (Microsoft Windows Imaging (.wim) file format images), and this situation causes the installation to fail on cluster nodes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Office 365<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.technet.com\/b\/ad\/archive\/2014\/09\/16\/azure-active-directory-sync-is-now-ga.aspx\">Azure Active Directory Sync is now GAAzure Active Directory Sync is now GA<\/a>: According to this Microsoft post, AAD Sync is Microsoft&#8217;s new &quot;one sync to rule them all&quot;.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/download\/details.aspx?id=44225\">Microsoft Azure Active Directory Sync Services<\/a>: This <a href=\"http:\/\/msdn.microsoft.com\/library\/azure\/dn790204.aspx\">AD to WAD synchronisation tool<\/a> went GA on Monday and is a replacement for DirSync.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Miscellaneous<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/round-two-of-microsoft-layoffs-coming-september-18-sources-7000033745\">Round two of Microsoft layoffs coming September 18<\/a>: More of the 18,000 are about to receive their notice.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:4ebca790-3e6e-468d-a0c4-d8e5325d4786\" 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\/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\/Networking\" rel=\"tag\">Networking<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Deployment\" rel=\"tag\">Deployment<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/WDS\" rel=\"tag\">WDS<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Failover+Clustering\" rel=\"tag\">Failover Clustering<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Office+365\" rel=\"tag\">Office 365<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Active+Directory\" rel=\"tag\">Active Directory<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft&#8217;s patch woes continue. A September update for Lync was pulled this week. Please: do not approve updates immediately; wait 1 month and let some other mug find the bugs for Microsoft. Azure Scale is never a problem with Azure Websites: Starting today, Azure Websites supports above 10 load balanced instances. Networking Announcing the Message &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=17108\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Microsoft News Summary &ndash; 17 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":[169,170,172,59,174,63,185,80,81,105],"class_list":["post-17108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-microsoft","tag-active-directory","tag-azure","tag-cloud","tag-cloud-computing","tag-deployment","tag-failover-clustering","tag-microsoft","tag-networking","tag-office-365","tag-wds"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17108","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=17108"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17109,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17108\/revisions\/17109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}