SharePoint Server 2016 IT Preview Now Available

Although not my current day-to-day line of work, I couldn't miss this disclosure. Here are some juicy bits: Download SharePoint Server 2016 Preview from Official Microsoft Download Center SharePoint Server 2016 IT Preview has been designed, developed, and tested with the Microsoft Software as a Service (SaaS) strategy at its core. Drawing extensively from that experience, …

All together now :) MSPress free ebooks

Ok, this is certainly a better approach 🙂 You can find a list of ALL available ebooks from MSPress at http://www.microsoftvirtualacademy.com/ebooks Have FUN! Cheers

Free ebook: Microsoft Azure Essentials Fundamentals of Azure (MSPress)

Yet another ebook, this time for Azure and much more recent. Get it from here. Cheers!

Free ebook: Introducing Microsoft SQL Server 2014 (MSPress)

There is no such thing as enough information. 🙂 Just found this one out and looks very interesting: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/microsoft_press/archive/2014/04/02/free-ebook-introducing-microsoft-sql-server-2014.aspx. Check it out!

MS User voice

It is just what it sounds: a place where the end users can shout to the product group with feedback on products. The product group teams DO READ and consider the expressed opinions. Trust me, I know! You can search and read the already existing ideas, vote on them (up or down!) and add new …

Now Available: BK’s Visual Studio 2013 RTM ALM Virtual Machine + Hands-on-Labs & Demo Scripts

Brian Keller has just published his new dev VM. This virtual machine replaces the previous Visual Studio 2013 ALM virtual machine which was based on Preview bits. This is a publicly downloadable set of content, so you may feel free to share this with your customers, partners, etc. It’s designed to be both a tool …

Quick tip: where is IISAPP?

IISAPP.vbs was a nice script that listed the applcation pools running in a box. This information is quite usefull, namely for debugging processes. The command is no longer available in the most recent versions of the OS, bu there is a work around: appcmd. open a command prompt and run "c:\windows\system32\inetsrv\appcmd List WP" and you'll …

A day in the field: my usual tools and the new goodies

A day in the field is not complete without your set of tools. Here is a revised list of my current and future tools (just in doubt if things that make you grin can be called tools...).

TFS Services (Azure) online ad available

It has been made available the Azure version of the Microsoft TFS (Team Foundation Services), also known as TFS Services preview. You can create a free account with a live account and use it in your projects. For the time beeing it is free. I don't have an idea of the business model of this …

Internet Explorer 9 Beta is out

Yesterday (Sept 15th), the latest version of IE was out on the street. First impressions: Fast and very clean. Your bars are all disabled onfirst load. You will have to enable them IF you really need them. With a little smaller memory print and a rendering engine that really is faster than IE8. This browser …