Erik Moreau

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Microsoft extends Windows XP Security Essentials support to July 2015

Microsoft will kill support for Windows XP this April, but for those of you who are using antimalware products, Microsoft will continue supplying those signatures until July of 2015. This means that Microsoft’s Security Essentials will still be updated after the April cutoff date, but the underlying OS will remain vulnerable. This is an interesting …

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Free ebook: Introducing Microsoft System Center 2012 R2

We’re happy to announce a new free ebook – Introducing Microsoft System Center 2012 R2 by Mitch Tulloch with Symon Perriman and the System Center Team. DOWNLOAD LINKS Download the  PDF – here Download the Mobi file for Kindle – here Download the ePub file – here   Introduction Microsoft System Center is one of …

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New Disk2vhd V2.0 with vhdx support

Disk2vhd is a utility that creates VHD (Virtual Hard Disk – Microsoft’s Virtual Machine disk format) versions of physical disks for use in Microsoft Virtual PC or Microsoft Hyper-V virtual machines (VMs). The difference between Disk2vhd and other physical-to-virtual tools is that you can run Disk2vhd on a system that’s online. Disk2vhd uses Windows’ Volume …

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Windows Server 2012 R2 Test Lab Guide

This Microsoft Test Lab Guide (TLG) provides you with step-by-step instructions to create the Windows Base Configuration test lab, using computers running Windows 8.1 or Windows Server 2012 R2, With the resulting test lab environment, you can build test labs based on other Windows Server 2012 R2 TLGs from Microsoft, TLG extensions in the TechNet …

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Windows Server 2012 R2 and Windows Server 2012 TechNet Library documentation as a PDF

2012 & 2012 R2 TechNet libraries in 1 PDF (116Mb, 8000 pages)   Link

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November Session Slides

As promised here are the slides of the November session:   TechNine – Windows 81 & RT- Erik Moreau Technine – Server 2012 R2 Essentials – Bart Bultinck – V2

Check the service health of your Office 365 service on the go

  As we discussed in a recent blog post,  Cloud services you can trust, “Transparency requires consistent communication.”  We’re working to improve the transparency of the Office 365 service by continuously improving our communication with customers on changes that impact the Office 365 environment. Recently we deployed the improved Message Center, which delivers messages targeted …

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Microsoft releases My Server 2012 R2 app for Windows Phone 8

While we are still waiting for Microsoft to release a full Windows 8.1 remote desktop app for Windows Phone users, the company did release an app this week that lets owners of those devices perform remote tasks on Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials from their smartphone. The My Server 2012 R2 app, currently available to …

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Free ebook: Introducing Windows Server 2012 R2

Check out this new free ebook – Introducing Windows Server 2012 R2 by Mitch Tulloch. FORMATS LINKS Download the PDF here Download the ePub file here Download the mobi file here Print version for sale here Introduction This book is intended to provide you with an overview of the new features and enhancements introduced in …

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