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If you’re interested in DirectX development, head on over to Channel 9, where there’s a new video about the Visual Studio 3D Starter Kit.  This time, Roberto Sonnino interviews Gokhan Sengun, who’s created the Virtual Experiment Laboratory app, which is the first known app on the Windows Store that  ...

          Editor's Note: The following is a post from Michael Washam, Senior Program Manager for Windows Azure.SharePoint has proven to be one of the most popular Microsoft workloads running on Windows Azure Virtual Machines. Hosting highly customized SharePoint farms and building Internet facing we ...

Hello again Readers/Viewers!Like my previous post over at “Blog D'Joy”, this post will act as a reference to the various posts that I have done in the past and be updated to include the new ones that I have continued to publish here on Building Clouds!Recently, Jim Britt and I curated that old “Guid ...

Healthcare is rapidly evolving, and the opportunity for developers to create apps that can help improve the lives of people around the world is bigger than ever. On May 13-14, 2013, Microsoft sponsored Health: Refactored, a 2-day conference in Silicon Valley for app builders, designers and tech expe ...

This blog post marks the start of a new series on advanced features of Templates in Virtual Machine Manager. Most of the features I’ll be showing are lesser-known and scenario-specific, but I hope they will aid users in accomplishing tasks. In this first post, I’ll be discussing the use of Organizat ...

Hello readers!  I have a post that I think will be very interesting to those of you who have wanted to execute PowerShell v3 through Orchestrator and have had issues.  The core of Orchestrator (if you didn’t already know) was built around an x86 PowerShell base for execution of PowerShell.  Meaning, ...

Howdy folks! I've posted another PowerShell script which may come in handy for IT admins no matter what services you administer. You can read more about it below, and you can download it from this TechNet Script Center link . Public Key Infrastructure...(read more) ...

Hi folks! I’ve posted a handy little script up to the TechNet Script Center. Here’s a direct link Technorati Tags: WAAD , Windows Azure AD , O365 , Office 365 , PowerShell This script is used to quickly retrieve all of the basic details about your Office...(read more) ...

Editor's Note: This post comes from Mark Miller.  The 3rd Annual Future of Cloud Computing Survey has just been launched by North Bridge and GigaOM Research.We are participating in this survey because your feedback on cloud computing is important to us and the industry.  We want to hear about your p ...

Hello Readers, welcome to the 4th and final post in this series on deploying the example VMM Service Template for SharePoint 2013 to your Microsoft private cloud.  To recap where we’ve been:Application Management-Example-Deploying a Service to Your Private Cloud (Part 1) Introduction material on wha ...