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Microsoft’s Thamim Karim just wrote a great article on how to share a virtual environment between a set of packages using Connection Groups in System Center 2012 Configuration Manager Service Pack 1. If you’re not leveraging this yet then you probably should be and this is a great starter guide.

Windows Server Gateway in Windows Server 2012 R2 is a key element of Hybrid Networking , which enables enterprises to connect to service providers via site-to-site VPN. This blog describes a different use case. It shows how Windows Server gateway can...(read more)

Organizational accounts (formerly OrgID) in Windows Azure Active Directory originated for the Office365 Suite of Services which includes Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, Lync Online.  WAAD is an identity provider for organization-owned identities which are hosted purely in the cloud as well as a federation provider for identities that a customer prefers to host in their on-premises Active Directory.  Unlike Microsoft accounts (formerly Windows Live ID), OrgID and WAAD are specifically focused on scenarios where the identity is not owned by an individual, but by an organization (company, university, etc.) in which an administrator has rights to manage the ID. If you want to learn more about Windows Azure Active Directory refer to the documentation and learning materials here http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/documentation/services/active-directory/ 

Birthdays are always special and we wanted to take this moment to celebrate the birthday of a special product. This week we are celebrating the birthday of Windows Server 2012. The product has done really well in the market and has super human strength. So here’s a question for you, “If Windows Server 2012 were a superhero, who would it be?”

In celebration of kids heading back to school, today we’re providing advance notification for the release of 14 bulletins, four Critical and 10 Important, for September 2013. The Critical updates address issues in Internet Explorer, Outlook, SharePoint and Windows. 

~ Richard Pesenko | Senior Support Escalation Engineer

Abstract: With the introduction of new features in Lync Server 2013, IT administrators and partners can provide users a rich unified communications experience that is highly resilient to single points of failure. However, failures can – and do –...(read more)

A frustrating reality for IT leaders is that their teams continue to struggle with the complications of data growth even though they spend more money on storage every year. It’s not surprising that IT leaders are looking for new storage architectures to help them solve their scalability problems and reduce their costs. A post to this blog in June briefly discussed the problems customers are having with data growth and mentioned how a StorSimple Cloud-integrated Storage system could be used to alleviate them. This post expands on that conversation and introduces the Microsoft hybrid cloud storage solution.