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Orchestrate Software Distribution with Windows Intune 2

 

Orchestrate Software Distribution with Windows Intune 2

A mere seven months after introducing its cloud-based PC-management service, Microsoft delivers a worthy update.


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Start Using HTML5 in Your Web Apps -- Today!

By Wallace B. McClure, 02/22/2012

HTML5 is the future of web applications -- and the future is now. But can you take advantage of HTML5's advanced features -- such as drag-and-drop file uploading and the datetime ...

Meet JsRender -- the Next Version of jQuery Templates

By Dan Wahlin, 02/21/2012

JsRender, a replacement script for the jQuery Templates plug-in, can help you reduce the amount of JavaScript coding you need to do in a web app. Dan Wahlin explains how to use ...

Fix for Double Vision in Disk Utilities

By Bret Bennett, 02/20/2012

In disk utilities, a common problem is having the same disk drive listed twice, even though they act on only one instance of it. Here's how to fix the problem.

Application Architecture Design Using Microsoft's Entity Framework

By Brian Mains, 02/17/2012

Brian Mains guides you in developing a database-access application architecture using the framework, first introducing Entity Framework's ObjectContext, which handles much of the ...


2011 Windows IT Pro Editors' Best and Community Choice Awards

By providing two distinct perspectives on the market, our annual award programs offer a unique way to recognize the hottest products among the past year's offerings. ...

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A Mini-Treatise on Storage Device Identifiers in NTFS

Terms such as disk signature, disk ID, volume ID, file system label, drive serial number, and volume serial number can mean different things to different people, which can cause confusion. This...

The Promise of Advanced Format Hard Drives

Advanced format drives represent a huge change to the way we store data. Here’s what you need to know about this evolutionary step....


Resolving Connection Problems in Mixed Wired and Wireless Networks

Wired/wireless network environments can create some routing-configuration problems....

Using Reporting Services in an Internet/Extranet Environment

How can you use SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services to deploy reports when Windows Authentication isn’t available—and without the risk of one partner seeing another’s data? Here’s how to set up custom...



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Data Storage: From the Floppy Disk to the Cloud

By Paul Thurrott, 01/24/2012

As part of my annual New Year's resolutions, I've been cleaning my home office, and I've discovered all kinds of data storage mediums and devices that I've put off erasing -- ...

Product Review: Diskeeper V-Locity 3

By Russell Smith, 01/23/2012

V-locity keeps physical and virtual disks in tiptop condition, without having to run manual defrag jobs.

A Mini-Treatise on Storage Device Identifiers in NTFS

By Bret Bennett, 01/23/2012

Terms such as disk signature, disk ID, volume ID, file system label, drive serial number, and volume serial number can mean different things to different people, which can cause ...

The Rigor of Windows 8 Hardware Certification Requirements, and What Happened to Drive Extender in Windows 8

By Paul Thurrott, 01/19/2012

Learn more about Windows 8 storage-related features; plus, see what Microsoft is requiring for Windows 8 hardware certification—-it's not going to be easy to get that certified ...

Exchange Server Database Errors: Patch That Page!

By Paul Robichaux, 01/12/2012

When a checksum check on a Microsoft Exchange Server database detects a page error, the page patching process will replace the bad page with a good copy, provided you're using a ...

Planning for Exchange Server 2010 Personal Archives

By Tony Redmond, 12/15/2011

Plan ahead to successfully deploy archive mailboxes in Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 SP1.

Q: What are the VM requirements for fault tolerance in vSphere 5.0?

By Greg Shields, 11/23/2011

Fault tolerance goes beyond VMware high availability, but its requirements place restrictive demands on virtual machine (VM) configuration.


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