Erik Moreau

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Microsoft to launch new standalone OneDrive for Business subscription plan on April 1st

Microsoft is set to roll out a new standalone OneDrive for Business subscription plan, which comes with Office Online, as well as enhancements to SharePoint 2013 with Service Pack 1 (SP1) that enable on-premises SharePoint users to configure OneDrive for Business with just a few clicks. OneDrive for Business was formerly known as SkyDrive Pro. Microsoft has …

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Microsoft extends life of Malicious Software Removal Tool on XP

Microsoft confirmed today for ZDNet that they will continue to create and distribute the Malicious Software Removal Tool for Windows XP users until July 14, 2015. A Microsoft spokesperson said “Microsoft’s Malicious Software Removal Tool is aligned with the company’s antimalware engines and signatures and as such, the removal tool will continue to be provided …

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SkyDrive to be OneDrive

Skydrive will soon be renamed to OneDrive The main Preview page: https://preview.onedrive.com/ The blog: http://blog.onedrive.com/ Video

Microsoft extends Windows XP Security Essentials support to July 2015

Microsoft will kill support for Windows XP this April, but for those of you who are using antimalware products, Microsoft will continue supplying those signatures until July of 2015. This means that Microsoft’s Security Essentials will still be updated after the April cutoff date, but the underlying OS will remain vulnerable. This is an interesting …

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Free ebook: Introducing Microsoft System Center 2012 R2

We’re happy to announce a new free ebook – Introducing Microsoft System Center 2012 R2 by Mitch Tulloch with Symon Perriman and the System Center Team. DOWNLOAD LINKS Download the  PDF – here Download the Mobi file for Kindle – here Download the ePub file – here   Introduction Microsoft System Center is one of …

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New Disk2vhd V2.0 with vhdx support

Disk2vhd is a utility that creates VHD (Virtual Hard Disk – Microsoft’s Virtual Machine disk format) versions of physical disks for use in Microsoft Virtual PC or Microsoft Hyper-V virtual machines (VMs). The difference between Disk2vhd and other physical-to-virtual tools is that you can run Disk2vhd on a system that’s online. Disk2vhd uses Windows’ Volume …

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Windows Server 2012 R2 Test Lab Guide

This Microsoft Test Lab Guide (TLG) provides you with step-by-step instructions to create the Windows Base Configuration test lab, using computers running Windows 8.1 or Windows Server 2012 R2, With the resulting test lab environment, you can build test labs based on other Windows Server 2012 R2 TLGs from Microsoft, TLG extensions in the TechNet …

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Windows Server 2012 R2 and Windows Server 2012 TechNet Library documentation as a PDF

2012 & 2012 R2 TechNet libraries in 1 PDF (116Mb, 8000 pages)   Link

Small Businesses Go Mobile

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November Session Slides

As promised here are the slides of the November session:   TechNine – Windows 81 & RT- Erik Moreau Technine – Server 2012 R2 Essentials – Bart Bultinck – V2