{"id":17611,"date":"2015-01-02T14:26:42","date_gmt":"2015-01-02T14:26:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=17611"},"modified":"2015-01-02T14:26:43","modified_gmt":"2015-01-02T14:26:43","slug":"microsoft-news-2-january-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=17611","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft News &#8211; 2 January 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to the \u201cHappy New Year 2015\u201d edition of my Microsoft News posts. I hope you have a nice time off from work &#8211; it FLEW by for me; I could do with a holiday to recover from my holiday.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s the news from over the past week or so:<\/p>\n<h2>Hyper-V<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.petri.com\/5-hyper-v-skills-need-learn-2015.htm\">5 Hyper-V Skills You Need To Learn for 2015<\/a>: An article I wrote for Petri.com<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.petri.com\/about-hyper-v-virtual-processor-limitations.htm\">About Hyper-V Virtual Processor Limitations<\/a>: An article I wrote for Petri.com<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Windows Server<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.technet.com\/b\/networking\/archive\/2014\/12\/26\/vpn-interoperability-guide-for-windows-server-2012-r2.aspx\">VPN Interoperability guide for Windows Server 2012 R2<\/a>: This document covers the working configurations for some of the popular third party VPN devices that can be deployed to work with Windows Server 2012 R2 VPN. The configuration for a Windows gateway is also included to server as a guideline for an interoperable deployment with the third party devices.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Azure<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.petri.com\/microsoft-makes-azure-disaster-recovery-smes-branch-offices.htm\">Microsoft Makes Azure Disaster Recovery For SMEs and Branch Offices<\/a>: A post I wrote for Petri.com<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/windowsazurestorage\/archive\/2014\/12\/22\/using-azure-storage-on-linux.aspx\">Using Azure Storage on Linux<\/a>: An update for Linux users on how to use Azure Storage<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/blog\/2014\/12\/22\/running-critical-application-workloads-on-microsoft-azure-d-series-virtual-machines\/\">Running Critical Application Workloads on Microsoft Azure D-Series Virtual Machines<\/a>: How to use these VMs that place their temp drive on host-local SSD storage. There is also a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/download\/details.aspx?id=45328\">whitepaper<\/a>. <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.petri.com\/choosing-microsoft-azure-storage-for-iaas.htm\">Choosing Microsoft Azure Storage for IaaS<\/a>: An article I wrote for Petri.com<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.petri.com\/deploying-microsoft-azure-storage-account.htm\">Deploying a Microsoft Azure Storage Account<\/a>: An article I wrote for Petri.com<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Miscellaneous<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.petri.com\/top-7-microsoft-news-2014.htm\">The Top 7 Microsoft News Stories of 2014<\/a>: An article I wrote for Petri.com<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to the \u201cHappy New Year 2015\u201d edition of my Microsoft News posts. I hope you have a nice time off from work &#8211; it FLEW by for me; I could do with a holiday to recover from my holiday. Here\u2019s the news from over the past week or so: Hyper-V 5 Hyper-V Skills You &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=17611\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Microsoft News &#8211; 2 January 2015&#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":[170,172,59,61,65,181,184,185,80,99,195,120],"class_list":["post-17611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-microsoft","tag-azure","tag-cloud","tag-cloud-computing","tag-dr","tag-hybrid-cloud","tag-hyper-v","tag-linux","tag-microsoft","tag-networking","tag-storage","tag-virtualisation","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\/17611","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=17611"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17612,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17611\/revisions\/17612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}