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- Resource Metering in Hyper-V<\/a>: A post that I wrote for Petri.com.<\/li>\n
- Importing a Virtual Machine with an Incompatible Saved State<\/a>: A nugget of info from Ben Armstrong.<\/li>\n
- Clustered Hyper-V Virtual Machine Prioritization<\/a>: A post that I wrote for Petri.com.<\/li>\n
- \u201cError applying Hard Drive changes\u201d on Generation 2 VMs<\/a>: Another nugget of info from Ben Armstrong.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Window Server<\/h2>\n
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- Monitor Storage Tiers Performance in Windows Server 2012 R2<\/a>: AWESOME article. More please!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Windows<\/h2>\n
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- The September 30th Microsoft Event<\/strong>: Paul Thurrott (on Windows Weekly) confirmed that this event will not be streamed. Major mistake in my opinion. The attendees are a small set of media, and the subject matter is Windows \u201cThreshold\u201d in the enterprise. Sure \u2026 let\u2019s not let the IT pros who will make the recommendation see the event. That\u2019s reeeealllly sensible. Let the Windows 8 insanity continue.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Azure<\/h2>\n
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- Azure VM price changes<\/strong>: The general purpose instances went up in price (fractions of a cent per hour) and the memory intensive instances went down. At least that’s the case for Europe North. There was no announcement from Microsoft – I found it by accident. Thanks to Arto Roth (@artoroth<\/a>) for the confirmation.<\/li>\n
- Microsoft Azure StorSimple Getting Started Guides<\/a>: This should prove useful for both StorSimple customers.<\/li>\n
- Azure Automation – Controlling Runbook Streams for Testing and Troubleshooting<\/a>: This post will cover some concepts and best practices for controlling runbook streams that will help you debug and troubleshoot your runbooks.<\/li>\n
- Enabling CDN for Azure Websites<\/a>: Enterprise functionality made easy & affordable.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Office 365<\/h2>\n
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- Launch documents and get started right away with the new Office 365 home page<\/a>: Microsoft is launching a new home page for O365 – I still have the old one.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
- SPLA Audit start to finish<\/a>: SPLA is based on an honour system – but audits have become a way of life with such licensing programs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Miscellaneous<\/h2>\n
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- Larry Ellison has "Retired" as Oracle CEO – Or has he?<\/a> The San Francisco Chronicle asks this question.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nTechnorati Tags: Microsoft<\/a>,Hyper-V<\/a>,Failover Clustering<\/a>,Windows Server 2012 R2<\/a>,Storage<\/a>,Storage Spaces<\/a>,Azure<\/a>,Licensing<\/a>,Cloud<\/a>,Cloud Computing<\/a>,PowerShell<\/a>,Scripting<\/a>,O365<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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- Larry Ellison has "Retired" as Oracle CEO – Or has he?<\/a> The San Francisco Chronicle asks this question.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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<\/ul>\nLicensing<\/h2>\n
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- SPLA Audit start to finish<\/a>: SPLA is based on an honour system – but audits have become a way of life with such licensing programs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
- Microsoft Azure StorSimple Getting Started Guides<\/a>: This should prove useful for both StorSimple customers.<\/li>\n
- Azure VM price changes<\/strong>: The general purpose instances went up in price (fractions of a cent per hour) and the memory intensive instances went down. At least that’s the case for Europe North. There was no announcement from Microsoft – I found it by accident. Thanks to Arto Roth (@artoroth<\/a>) for the confirmation.<\/li>\n
- The September 30th Microsoft Event<\/strong>: Paul Thurrott (on Windows Weekly) confirmed that this event will not be streamed. Major mistake in my opinion. The attendees are a small set of media, and the subject matter is Windows \u201cThreshold\u201d in the enterprise. Sure \u2026 let\u2019s not let the IT pros who will make the recommendation see the event. That\u2019s reeeealllly sensible. Let the Windows 8 insanity continue.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
- Importing a Virtual Machine with an Incompatible Saved State<\/a>: A nugget of info from Ben Armstrong.<\/li>\n