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One of the key issues this blog has covered recently is the transformation of storage.  Microsoft is focused on helping customers control the costs of storage, whether by using industry-standard hardware or simplifying existing hardware infrastructure.  To that end we have made significant investments in the SMB 3.0 protocol for file-based storage.  This helps customers use existing network infrastructure to achieve Fibre Channel-like performance, regardless of the underlying storage subsystem.

Today we’re providing advance notification for the release of eight bulletins, four Critical and four Important, for October 2013. The Critical updates address vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer, .NET Framework and Windows. The Critical update for Internet Explorer will be a cumulative update which will address the publicly disclosed issue described in Security Advisory 2887505.  

Windows 8.1 allows a VPN client to automatically connect to the corporate network. From end user perspective, access to corporate resources works just like when he is inside the corporate network. Whenever you launch a corporate application or access...(read more)

Microsoft’s very own Anders Ravnholt published a great step-by-step on how to configure Operations Manager 2012 and Virtual Machine Manager 2012 for IaaS usage and reporting:

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Abstract: Have you ever wanted to add a desktop sharing feature to your application so users can share their desktop, monitor, or a process with another user with the click of a button? This blog post introduces you to a new feature of the Lync 2013 API...(read more)

This blogs describes in detail the concepts of multi-tenant site-to-site (S2S) Virtual Private Network (VPN) introduced in what’s New in 2012 R2: Hybrid Networking blog . In this blog, we will examine how requirements of two organizations Woodgrove Bank...(read more)

​Recently Trojan:Win32/Mevade made news for being the first large botnet to use Tor to anonymize and hide its network traffic. Within a few weeks, starting mid-August, the number of directly connecting Tor users increased by almost 600 percent - from about 500,000 users per day to more than 3,000,000.