Learning from Microsoft Advertising Platform on Azure SQL
Thriving on Azure SQL Microsoft Advertising is a powerful advertising platform designed to get your ads in front of the right customers. In the fiscal year 2019, search advertising revenue generated $7.6 billion for Microsoft. We have been on a ... continue reading

Minecraft Earth and Azure Cosmos DB part 1: Extending Minecraft into our real world
This post is part 1 of a two-part series about how organizations use Azure Cosmos DB to meet real world needs and the difference it’s making to them. In part 1, we explore the challenges that led service developers for ... continue reading
How to Guide for SC- Virtual Machine Manager 2019 UR1 features
The very first update roll up for System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2019 is now available. The update release contains several features requested by customers on VMM user voice and other forums. Thanks for engaging with us and helping us ... continue reading
CA manager approval required for certificate re-enrollment
First published on TECHNET on Mar 08, 2011 Hi there, this is Larry, Developer from US, and Fabian, PFE from Germany, writing about an uncommon scenario that might raise questions sometimes. When enrolling certificates to clients or users, you might ... continue reading
SMB and Null Sessions: Why Your Pen Test is Probably Wrong
Hi everyone, James Kehr here with a guest post. One of the SMB cases we get regularly at Microsoft Support is, “my pen test says you allow Null sessions!” Followed by a string of CVE numbers; like, CVE-1999-0519 and CVE-1999-0520 ... continue reading

Configuring Azure Linux VM to work with VPN Client
As we move towards a more secure world Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) has become more popular as people try to protect their data going over the internet. But installing a VPN client on the OS level of an Azure Linux ... continue reading

Fueling intelligent energy with IoT
At Microsoft, building a future that we can all thrive in is at the center of everything we do. On January 16, as part of the announcement that Microsoft will be carbon negative by 2030, we discussed how advances in ... continue reading

Updated: Step by Step Guide to Setting Up System Center Configuration Manager to Support Management and Installation of the ConfigMgr Client on Mac OS Computers
First published on TECHNET on Oct 04, 2014Authored by Clifton HughesI have recently had several requests asking about the support for managing Mac OSx computers in System Center 2012 R2 Configuration Manager, so I went to work in my lab ... continue reading
Installing System Center 2012 Configuration Manager RC2 with SQL Server 2008 R2 Cluster
First published on TECHNET on Feb 05, 2012 Authored by Santos Martinez During the past couple of months I have been working with ConfigMgr 2012 RC2 in many ways. Now on in the past couple of days I decide to ... continue reading
Top 10 Networking Features in Windows Server 2019: #10 Accurate Network Time
First published on TECHNET on Jul 18, 2018This blog is part of a series for the Top 10 Networking Features in Windows Server 2019!-- Due to the move of blog locations, if you find a broken link, please check https://aka.ms/W32Time ... continue reading