Monday, August 31, 2015

The Microsoft Platform: RDS Deployment template available in Azure Resourc...

The Microsoft Platform: RDS Deployment template available in Azure Resourc...: The RDS team did a great blog post on using the RDS Deployment template for Azure Resource Manager. Azure Resource Manager enables you to wo...

Sunday, August 30, 2015

The Microsoft Platform: Microsoft Edge in Windows Server 2016 (Technical p...

I have been using Edge on Windows 10 for close to a month and have to say it is way quicker than Firefox and  catching up to Chrome, I do not usually see a need for using browsers on servers unless an update from Microsoft needs to be read an applied urgently, I have seen network administrators in the past carry out research on a problem using browsers to log on to the internet on the servers itself, I believe that the practice is a security disaster waiting to happen. I have not gone in to the technical depths of Edge but I believe it is a much more secure browser than previous incarnations.



Note to self; use client machines to research on the internet :-).



The Microsoft Platform: Microsoft Edge in Windows Server 2016 (Technical p...: As you might have heard, Windows Server 2016 Technical Preview 3 is out and available in both Windows Azure IaaS, as well as in MSDN. One ...

Monday, August 3, 2015

Ola folks, it has been a long time since I wrote here and I have been promising you a change in the focus of this blog, well my first post for the change begins with a change of heart at Microsoft. From going app heavy on windows 8 and 8.1 they have realised one thing, they do the desktops / laptops way better than anything in the market (sorry Apple fans) and with the release of Windows 10 to folks the world over (see previous post),  Microsoft, I believe has found a winner on its hands. There are many new features which I would be discussing on this blog and as I get hold of Enterprise copies to test them I will do some demonstrations as well, till then All hail Windows 10!



#PowerShell HELP

PowerShell has one of the best help database built in to it, well it still has a long way to go to catch up with the Linux Man pages but yo...