{"id":17476,"date":"2014-12-03T12:31:18","date_gmt":"2014-12-03T12:31:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=17476"},"modified":"2014-12-03T12:31:18","modified_gmt":"2014-12-03T12:31:18","slug":"microsoft-news-3-december-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=17476","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft News &ndash; 3 December 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s been a slow period but there\u2019s some interesting stuff in Azure networking and websites.<\/p>\n<h2>Hyper-V<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/virtual_pc_guy\/archive\/2014\/11\/24\/update-for-rdcman.aspx\">Update for RDCMan<\/a>: New support for connecting to VMs via Hyper-V<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/virtual_pc_guy\/archive\/2014\/11\/25\/using-rdcman-v2-7-to-connect-to-a-vm.aspx\">Using RDCMan v2.7 to Connect to a VM<\/a>: Using the above new feature<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.technet.com\/b\/virtualization\/archive\/2014\/11\/24\/integration-components-how-we-determine-windows-update-applicability.aspx\">Integration components<\/a>: How Microsoft determines Windows Update applicability<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Windows Server<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.petri.com\/reduce-vdi-costs-enable-windows-server-2012-r2-data-deduplication.htm\">Reduce VDI costs by Enabling Data Deduplication on Windows Server 2012 R2<\/a>: A post I wrote for Petri.com<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Azure<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/blog\/2014\/11\/25\/introducing-the-azure-automation-script-converter\/\">Introducing the Azure Automation Script Converter<\/a>: Wouldn\u2019t it be nice if we could just take things we\u2019ve already written as PowerShell scripts, or that we\u2019ve grabbed from the PowerShell community, and just import them as is into Azure Automation?<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/blog\/2014\/12\/01\/new-updates-to-daas-diagnostics-as-a-service-for-azure-websites\/\">New Updates to DaaS \u2013 Diagnostics as a Service for Azure Websites<\/a>: Recent updates to the DaaS site extension for Microsoft Azure Websites.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/blog\/2014\/12\/01\/new-updates-to-support-site-extension-for-azure-websites\/\">New Updates to Support Site Extension for Azure Websites<\/a>: Microsoft announced more self-service troubleshooting and diagnostics options to Support Portal for Azure Websites. This looks quite useful!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/blog\/2014\/12\/02\/azure-virtual-network-gateway-improvements\/\">Azure Virtual Network Gateway Improvements<\/a>: A lot of changes were made to improve hybrid networking.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.petri.com\/azure-forced-tunneling.htm\">Using Microsoft Azure Forced Tunneling<\/a>: A post I wrote for Petri.com<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Office 365<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.office.com\/2014\/12\/02\/whats-new-november-2014\/\">What\u2019s new &#8211; November 2014<\/a>: A summary of updates<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/rds\/archive\/2014\/12\/02\/azure-remoteapp-now-supporting-office-365-proplus.aspx\">Azure RemoteApp now supporting Office 365 ProPlus<\/a>: Don&#8217;t ask me about the licensing of it!!!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Miscellaneous<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/redmondmag.com\/articles\/2014\/12\/01\/microsoft-ups-support-costs.aspx\">Microsoft Increases Support Costs for IT Pros<\/a>: Premier, the organization you can blame for faulty Windows Updates, increased costs for technical support.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:b5105075-1bf1-4c91-8ac4-f4a5a7691a6e\" 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\/Hyper-V\" rel=\"tag\">Hyper-V<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Windows+Server+2015\" rel=\"tag\">Windows Server 2015<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/VDI\" rel=\"tag\">VDI<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Storage\" rel=\"tag\">Storage<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Azure\" rel=\"tag\">Azure<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Hybrid+Cloud\" rel=\"tag\">Hybrid Cloud<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Networking\" rel=\"tag\">Networking<\/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\/Scripting\" rel=\"tag\">Scripting<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/PowerShell\" rel=\"tag\">PowerShell<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Office+365\" rel=\"tag\">Office 365<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s been a slow period but there\u2019s some interesting stuff in Azure networking and websites. Hyper-V Update for RDCMan: New support for connecting to VMs via Hyper-V Using RDCMan v2.7 to Connect to a VM: Using the above new feature Integration components: How Microsoft determines Windows Update applicability Windows Server Reduce VDI costs by Enabling &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=17476\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Microsoft News &ndash; 3 December 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":[170,172,59,65,181,185,80,81,87,189,99,102,137],"class_list":["post-17476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-microsoft","tag-azure","tag-cloud","tag-cloud-computing","tag-hybrid-cloud","tag-hyper-v","tag-microsoft","tag-networking","tag-office-365","tag-powershell","tag-scripting","tag-storage","tag-vdi","tag-windows-server-2016"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17476","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=17476"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17477,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17476\/revisions\/17477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}