{"id":17640,"date":"2015-01-14T10:42:06","date_gmt":"2015-01-14T10:42:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=17640"},"modified":"2015-01-14T10:42:07","modified_gmt":"2015-01-14T10:42:07","slug":"microsoft-news-14-january-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=17640","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft News &#8211; 14 January 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s the Microsoft updates from the last few days.<\/p>\n<h2>Windows Server<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/dirteam.com\/sander\/2015\/01\/12\/advances-in-active-directory-since-windows-server-2003\/\">Advances in Active Directory since Windows Server 2003<\/a>: Features that people have been asking for since 2003 \u2026 some have been there since Windows Server 2008!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>System Center<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.server-talk.eu\/2015\/01\/14\/windows-azure-pack-licensing\/\">Windows Azure Pack and it\u2019s licensing<\/a>: A post by MSFT employee (and co-author on the last Hyper-V book), Michel Luescher.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/redmondmag.com\/articles\/2015\/01\/13\/sccm-and-windows-10.aspx\">Microsoft Updating Intune and SCCM with an Eye Toward Windows 10<\/a>: Mobility seems to be the focus.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.technet.com\/b\/canitpro\/archive\/2015\/01\/14\/step-by-step-building-an-system-center-virtualization-manager-lab.aspx\">Step-By-Step: Building A System Center Virtual Machine Manager Lab Part 1<\/a>: Start to learn VMM<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/kevingreeneitblog.blogspot.ie\/2015\/01\/scom-new-windows-server-os-management.html\" target=\"_blank\">SCOM &#8211; New Windows Server OS Management Pack Available &#8211; BUT BEWARE!<\/a>: A warning from Kevin Greene about a new (and recently pulled) update to the <a href=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?s=Windows+Server\" target=\"_blank\">Windows Server<\/a> OS management pack.<\/li>\n<h5>&#160;<\/h5>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Azure<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/blog\/2015\/01\/12\/azure-data-center-migration-just-got-easier\/\">Azure Data Center Migration just got easier<\/a>: It&#8217;s still a hack, so it&#8217;s not as simple as it should be.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/windowsazurestorage\/archive\/2015\/01\/13\/azcopy-introducing-synchronous-copy-and-customized-content-type.aspx\">AzCopy \u2013 Introducing synchronous copy and customized content type<\/a>: AzCopy 3.1.0 and 4.1.0-Preview are now released.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/blog\/2015\/01\/13\/microsoft-azure-reaches-new-industry-leading-cloud-compliance-milestones\/\">Microsoft Azure Reaches New Industry-Leading Cloud Compliance Milestones<\/a>: Compliance stuff.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/blog\/2015\/01\/13\/migrate-linux-vms-to-azure-with-migration-accelerator\/\">Migrate Linux VMs to Azure with Migration Accelerator<\/a>: Microsoft announced support for the migration of Linux physical and virtual machines to Azure.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Office 365<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.office.com\/2015\/01\/12\/whats-new-december-2014\/\">What\u2019s new &#8211; December 2014<\/a>: Quite a few things, despite the end of year holidays.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:373583f1-876a-4749-bc95-d09cf491eb2a\" 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+2015\" rel=\"tag\">Windows Server 2015<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Active+Directory\" rel=\"tag\">Active Directory<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Windows+Server+2003\" rel=\"tag\">Windows Server 2003<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/WAP\" rel=\"tag\">WAP<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/System+Center\" rel=\"tag\">System Center<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Intune\" rel=\"tag\">Intune<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Configuration+Manager\" rel=\"tag\">Configuration Manager<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/VMM\" rel=\"tag\">VMM<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Private+Cloud\" rel=\"tag\">Private Cloud<\/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\/Operations+Manager\" rel=\"tag\">Operations Manager<\/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\/Linux\" rel=\"tag\">Linux<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Office+365\" rel=\"tag\">Office 365<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s the Microsoft updates from the last few days. Windows Server Advances in Active Directory since Windows Server 2003: Features that people have been asking for since 2003 \u2026 some have been there since Windows Server 2008! System Center Windows Azure Pack and it\u2019s licensing: A post by MSFT employee (and co-author on the last &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=17640\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Microsoft News &#8211; 14 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":[169,170,172,59,60,65,71,184,81,83,88,193,196,131,115,137],"class_list":["post-17640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-microsoft","tag-active-directory","tag-azure","tag-cloud","tag-cloud-computing","tag-configuration-manager","tag-hybrid-cloud","tag-intune","tag-linux","tag-office-365","tag-operations-manager","tag-private-cloud","tag-system-center","tag-vmm","tag-wap","tag-windows-server-2003","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\/17640","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=17640"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17641,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17640\/revisions\/17641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}