{"id":17856,"date":"2015-03-27T16:35:57","date_gmt":"2015-03-27T16:35:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=17856"},"modified":"2015-03-27T16:35:57","modified_gmt":"2015-03-27T16:35:57","slug":"microsoft-news-27-march-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=17856","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft News &#8211; 27 March 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to the Azure Times! Or so it seems. Lots of Azure developments since I posted one of these news aggregations.<\/p>\n<h2>Windows Client<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.technet.com\/b\/deploymentguys\/archive\/2015\/03\/27\/reducing-windows-deployment-time-using-power-management.aspx\">Reducing Windows Deployment time using Power Management<\/a>: Saving up to 50% of time.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Azure<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.petri.com\/creating-a-recovery-plan-for-hyper-v-vm-failover-to-microsoft-azure.htm\">Creating a Recovery Plan for Hyper-V VM failover to Microsoft Azure<\/a>: A post I wrote for Petri.com<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.petri.com\/getting-the-most-out-of-azure-site-recovery.htm\">Getting the Most Out of Azure Site Recovery<\/a>: A post I wrote for Petri.com<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/blog\/2015\/03\/16\/microsoft-azure-uses-error-correcting-code-memory-for-enhanced-reliability-and-security\/\">Microsoft Azure uses Error-Correcting Code memory for enhanced reliability and security<\/a>: With details on testing for an exploit called &quot;Rowhammer&quot; .<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/blog\/2015\/03\/18\/protecting-large-data-disks-using-azure-site-recovery\/\">Protecting large data disks using Azure Site Recovery<\/a>: How to overcome the issue that Azure has with data disks larger than 1 TB. Also check the comments on &quot;write order consistency&quot;.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/blog\/2015\/03\/19\/new-additions-to-the-azure-vm-powershell-dsc-extension\/\">New additions to the Azure VM PowerShell DSC Extension<\/a>: The Azure PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC) Extension team has announced some new additions to provide a seamless experience for using DSC on Azure Windows VMs. <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/blog\/2015\/03\/19\/allocation-failure-and-remediation\/\">Allocation Failure and Remediation<\/a>: Weird crap that can happen when creating, starting, or resizing a VM or adding new web instances.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.petri.com\/how-to-create-an-azure-remoteapp-template.htm\">How to Create an Azure RemoteApp Template<\/a>: A post I wrote for Petri.com<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.petri.com\/create-an-azure-remoteapp-template-from-an-azure-vm.htm\">Create an Azure RemoteApp Template from an Azure VM<\/a>: A post I wrote for Petri.com<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/rds\/archive\/2015\/03\/16\/introducing-remoteapp-powershell-cmdlets-and-sdk.aspx\">Introducing RemoteApp PowerShell Cmdlets and SDK<\/a>: Very useful for automating the provisioning of RemoteApp app collections<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/blog\/2015\/03\/26\/announcing-the-preview-of-disaster-recovery-for-vmwarephysical-servers-to-microsoft-azure-with-asr\/\">Announcing the Preview of Disaster Recovery for VMware Virtual Machines and Physical Servers to Azure using ASR<\/a>: DR in the cloud via Azure is COMING to vSphere.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/blog\/2015\/03\/25\/azure-vm-os-drive-limit-octupled\/\">Azure VM OS drive limit has octupled<\/a>: Meaning that you can migrate or replicate those badly configured VMs you created on-premises.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/blog\/2015\/03\/25\/diagnostics-troubleshoot-remote-desktop-connections\/\">New troubleshooting Remote Desktop connections topic<\/a>: Figure out why you can&#8217;t RDP to an Azure VM.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/blog\/2015\/03\/24\/announcing-azure-app-service\/\">Announcing Azure App Service<\/a>: Lots of stuff merging in with Websites.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.petri.com\/how-to-create-a-hybrid-remoteapp-collection.htm\">How to Create a Hybrid RemoteApp Collection<\/a>: A looong post by me on Petri.com<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.petri.com\/backing-up-azure-virtual-machines.htm\">Backing Up Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines<\/a>: A much needed feature on Azure finally arrives, even if it is a little ropey on day #2.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.technet.com\/b\/ad\/archive\/2015\/03\/24\/azure-ad-connect-preview-2-is-available.aspx\">Azure AD Connect Preview 2 is available<\/a>: I&#8217;ve used Preview 1 to quickly connect on-prem AD to AAD for demo labs.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.technet.com\/b\/ad\/archive\/2015\/03\/26\/what-s-the-best-way-to-connect-to-office365-and-azure.aspx\">What\u2019s the best way to connect to Office 365 and Azure?<\/a> Some stats on what people are actually doing.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Office<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.office.com\/2015\/03\/16\/announcing-the-office-2016-it-pro-and-developer-preview\/\">Announcing the Office 2016 IT Pro and Developer Preview<\/a>: Announcing he IT Pro and Developer Preview of Office 2016 for the Windows desktop. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Office 365<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.office.com\/2015\/03\/16\/get-ready-for-skype-for-business\/\">Get ready for Skype for Business<\/a>: Lync is rebranded and a new client is in preview.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.office.com\/2015\/03\/16\/get-ready-for-skype-for-business\/\">Office Delve\u2014discover exactly what you need, when you need it<\/a>: A machine learning-based way of finding stuff has gone live.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/blog\/2015\/03\/17\/expressroute-for-office-365\/\">ExpressRoute for Office 365<\/a>: Bringing Azure&#8217;s hybrid WAN to O365.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:a720a468-4cac-4370-a399-506d3093a267\" 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.+MDT\" rel=\"tag\">Microsoft. 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Or so it seems. Lots of Azure developments since I posted one of these news aggregations. Windows Client Reducing Windows Deployment time using Power Management: Saving up to 50% of time. Azure Creating a Recovery Plan for Hyper-V VM failover to Microsoft Azure: A post I wrote for Petri.com Getting &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=17856\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Microsoft News &#8211; 27 March 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":[170,55,172,59,174,61,65,142,80,186,81,87,134,189,99],"class_list":["post-17856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-microsoft","tag-azure","tag-backup","tag-cloud","tag-cloud-computing","tag-deployment","tag-dr","tag-hybrid-cloud","tag-microsoft-mdt","tag-networking","tag-office","tag-office-365","tag-powershell","tag-rds","tag-scripting","tag-storage"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17856","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=17856"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17857,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17856\/revisions\/17857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}