Microsoft Server and Cloud Platform Blog

The BYO-Poetry Contest is over, but the fun isn’t! Until then, please enjoy these poems from our runners-up . Congratulations, winners and honorable mentions, and thanks again to everyone who entered! Michael McBride technology grows with...

Following on from Jason’s recent post where we explored how the explosion we are seeing in the use of consumer devices in the corporate environment, along with ubiquitous information access is changing the way that people are getting their work...

On January 27 th Microsoft Virtual Academy (MVA) kicks off a week of Azure training for developers and IT pros with a live demo from Scott Guthrie , Microsoft Corporate Vice President, Windows Azure. Scott will build a real world application from scratch...

Results are in! We received dozens of inspired and amusing poems from the BYOD trenches. After much caffeine-fueled consideration, two winning poems came out on top for their creativity, spirit, and relevance. Here they are for your BYO-tainment: ...

Today, Microsoft is announcing important changes to the roadmaps of Forefront Identity Manager (FIM) and Forefront Unified Access Gateway (UAG): We plan to ship another major release of FIM in the first half of calendar year 2015 . Microsoft...

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...