Microsoft Server and Cloud Platform Blog

If you haven’t heard, we’re holding a BYOD poetry contest to showcase our community’s deepest (or goofiest) thoughts about device management, information protection, and all topics BYOD. Enter your poem of 300 words or fewer—in...

Today, Microsoft announced the launch of the Microsoft Cloud OS Network. The Cloud OS Network is a program consisting of over 25 leading cloud service providers who have embraced the Cloud OS vision. These organizations offer solutions based on the Microsoft...

If you spend your days wrangling devices and your night times ruminating, here’s your chance to do both! Write a poem that shows us how you manage devices, data, and apps in your workplace, putting a fun spin on BYOD, and you could win an Xbox 360...

We are pleased to announce a new application that will allow both Developers and IT Professionals to access Microsoft information from a variety of panes of glass. The Microsoft Tech Companion is now available for download . This application brings you...

Remove the obstacles created by disparate technologies, conflicting requirements, and tight budgets, and IT gets a lot easier. Today, companies can overcome many of these traditional IT challenges by using cloud-based solutions based on Windows Azure...

Adam Carter here, the technical product manager for VDI. I wanted to give you an update on what’s happening with our cross platform Remote Desktop apps. It was just over a month ago that we released Remote Desktop clients for iOS, Android and Mac...

Searching for technical content is tough enough. Sharing technical content with your peer group isn’t easy so we wanted to provide a new content service to allow both. Today we take the wraps off a new content curation site we call Curah! The name...

Here in Microsoft’s Enterprise Client Management team, my peers and I spend a lot of time speaking one-on-one with customers and industry analysts about the consumerization trend. Organizations of all sizes are trying to determine what they can...

I was reading a magazine last week when I stumbled upon ads from three different IT vendors, all promoting their cloud solutions. I had a pretty hard time telling them apart - they all used similar language, and seemed to be making more or less the same...

Providing information to our community is important to us. There are a number of channels we use to get the word out on promotions, great technical content, and fun contests. The Microsoft Server and Cloud business is growing, as is the community of developers...

Over the past several months, we’ve been sharing our vision of People-centric IT , a redefinition of how IT can enable people to choose the devices they wish to use for work, while at the same time also providing access to applications and protecting...

With the coming release of Windows Server 2012 R2 we are excited about how advances in the core platform, particularly in the area of storage, are redefining what’s possible with virtual desktop environments. New features in R2 such as storage tiering...

Recently, Microsoft blazed new trail with its first-ever sponsored presence at Oracle OpenWorld. This participation was in celebration of the new partnership between Oracle and Microsoft which will provide customers more flexibility and choice for how...

Tune in October 29, 2013 for Microsoft Insights — the first in a series of live online events designed to help inspire and guide your technology skills advancement, whether you're just starting out or striving for new opportunities. Learn about...

Microsoft’s OS Cloud vision takes place on the back of great hardware, software, services and our partners. It isn’t enough to have the best server OS for file and print. You have to run other roles and workloads for virtualization, email...

Oracle OpenWorld 2013 kicks off today and it might surprise you to learn how many great Microsoft sessions will be delivered. Oracle products run on the platform that make up the Microsoft Cloud OS vision , so it’s important for us to give you great...

As competition in the cloud space heats up, things are looking better than ever for customers, as they have access to increasingly better solutions and hence, more choice. However, this competition is making at least one vendor uncomfortable - how else...

Delivering relevant, timely and accurate information on Microsoft products isn’t an easy chore. Many people work long and hard to make the Microsoft online experience a compelling one for Developers, IT Pros, Architects, Managers, etc. We have been...

Active Directory (AD) still continues to be a topic of interest for new and seasoned IT Professionals. Directory services provide the core for organization, security and management of many type of principles. With that in mind we wanted to highlight a...

As you know, we’ve been filling in the Microsoft Cloud vision with products chock-full of innovation. As announced on Steve Guggenheimer's blog , and Microsoft VP Brad Anderson’s blog post, “Ready Now for TNS & MSDN: Download Windows...

In this week’s Top Picks from TechEd 2013, we have selected some sessions on virtualization. They are all highly reviewed and we are sure the topics will be interesting to you. Virtualization has been white hot for years and the following sessions...

On the 7th of July we announced the public preview release for the new application access enhancements for Windows Azure Active Directory that enables you to provide Single Sign On for all kinds of SaaS apps no matter where they are hosted, to you users...

Setting up and managing web farms isn’t for the faint of heart. We’ve made great strides with automation and scripting in the past, but we have continued to innovate. Web Sites for Windows Server, included in the Windows Azure Pack, provides...

In this week’s Top Picks from TechEd 2013, we have selected some sessions from Microsoft Technical Fellow, Mark Russinovich. Mark is consistently rated one of the top speakers at every event he presents at. His technical skill is unmatched but he...

VMWorld is in full swing and Microsoft is there. The most obvious question that VMworld attendees (and IT professionals that are familiar with VMware) are probably asking right now – “why would I want to learn about Hyper-V while attending...