{"id":17687,"date":"2015-01-28T14:21:25","date_gmt":"2015-01-28T14:21:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=17687"},"modified":"2015-01-28T14:21:25","modified_gmt":"2015-01-28T14:21:25","slug":"microsoft-news-28-january-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=17687","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft News &#8211; 28 January 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Things have quietened down after the Windows 10 and HoloLens news, and Azure is back to dominating this post.<\/p>\n<p>Windows Server<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/download\/details.aspx?id=45507\">Distributed File System Namespace Solution with Hybrid Cloud Storage Deployment Guide<\/a>: This paper explains how to deploy Microsoft Azure StorSimple, Windows file servers, and Windows Server Distributed File System Namespace to create a global namespace for all the shares created in StorSimple.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.technet.com\/b\/configmgrteam\/archive\/2015\/01\/23\/system-center-endpoint-protection-support-for-windows-server-2003.aspx\">System Center Endpoint Protection support for Windows Server 2003<\/a>: Microsoft will end support for their anti-malware on W2003 on July 14th in line with W2003 end of life.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Windows Client<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/redmondmag.com\/articles\/2015\/01\/27\/microsoft-spartan-browser-legacy-support.aspx\">Microsoft Clarifies How the Spartan Browser Will Support Legacy Sites and Apps<\/a>: The new additional browser for Windows 10 will be compatible all the way back to IE5 via IE11 Enterprise Mode.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Azure<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/blog\/2015\/01\/23\/new-g-series-support-in-us-east-2\/\">New G-Series Support in US East 2<\/a>: Given the growing demand Microsoft is seeing, they accelerated the release of another region, US East 2. You can now deploy G-Series Virtual Machines in either US West or US East 2. They will continue to expand G-series support to other regions based on customer demand and usage.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/blog\/2015\/01\/27\/scheduling-azure-automation-runbooks-with-azure-scheduler\/\">Scheduling Azure Automation runbooks with Azure Scheduler<\/a>: A very useful feature. They also show how to schedule for specific days of the week.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/blog\/2015\/01\/27\/troubleshooting-microsoft-azure-storage-with-message-analyzer\/\">Troubleshooting Microsoft Azure Storage with Message Analyzer<\/a>: Microsoft has released a set of Azure Storage specific assets in Microsoft Message Analyzer, including parsers, color rules, charts, filters, and view layouts, to help you diagnose and troubleshoot issues in cloud storage applications.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.petri.com\/choosing-azure-vm-series.htm\">Choosing Between Azure VM Series<\/a>: A post I wrote for Petri.com.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.technet.com\/b\/canitpro\/archive\/2015\/01\/28\/step-by-step-creating-an-azure-ad-lab-environment.aspx\">Creating an Azure AD Lab Environment<\/a>: A handy start up guide.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Intune<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/kb\/3033218\">List of attributes that are synced by Microsoft Intune<\/a>: Some may need access to this information for compliance checks.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Security<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/redmondmag.com\/articles\/2015\/01\/27\/security-essentials-fails-antivirus-test.aspx\">Microsoft&#8217;s Security Essentials Fails Latest Antivirus Test<\/a>: According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.av-test.org\/en\/antivirus\/home-windows\/windows-7\/december-2014\/\">AV-Test in December 2014<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Miscellaneous<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.petri.com\/has-microsoft-changed-their-perception.htm\">Has Microsoft Changed their Image<\/a>? A post by me on Petri.com<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cultofmac.com\/310012\/ibm-prepares-largest-corporate-layoff\/\">New Apple partner IBM prepares for largest corporate layoff in history<\/a>: 111,000+ people to go at &quot;Much Smaller Blue&quot;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:3ee57939-d63f-4e49-a16e-a68ae0eedd2f\" 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+2003\" rel=\"tag\">Windows Server 2003<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Security\" rel=\"tag\">Security<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Storage\" rel=\"tag\">Storage<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Windows+10\" rel=\"tag\">Windows 10<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Azure\" rel=\"tag\">Azure<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/PowerShell\" rel=\"tag\">PowerShell<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/System+Center\" rel=\"tag\">System Center<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Scripting\" rel=\"tag\">Scripting<\/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\/Hybrid+Cloud\" rel=\"tag\">Hybrid Cloud<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Intune\" rel=\"tag\">Intune<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Microsoft\" rel=\"tag\">Microsoft<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Things have quietened down after the Windows 10 and HoloLens news, and Azure is back to dominating this post. Windows Server Distributed File System Namespace Solution with Hybrid Cloud Storage Deployment Guide: This paper explains how to deploy Microsoft Azure StorSimple, Windows file servers, and Windows Server Distributed File System Namespace to create a global &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=17687\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Microsoft News &#8211; 28 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":[170,172,59,65,71,185,87,189,190,99,193,136,115],"class_list":["post-17687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-microsoft","tag-azure","tag-cloud","tag-cloud-computing","tag-hybrid-cloud","tag-intune","tag-microsoft","tag-powershell","tag-scripting","tag-security","tag-storage","tag-system-center","tag-windows-10","tag-windows-server-2003"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17687","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=17687"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17688,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17687\/revisions\/17688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}