Introduction Last year there was talk of Microsoft releasing the underpinnings of their Microsoft Azure platform for use i on-premises environments. Naturally, I was curious! Now, I don’t know much about this up front. Unfortunately the package doesn’t provide much more enlightenment. Fortunately, there’s some very handy information online: “Azure […]
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At the start of this month, Microsoft released another preview edition of the upcoming next edition to the Windows operating system franchise. This is Preview 10074, and contains a few very interesting changes. I ran up the Preview image earlier today to take a look at what’s new. Installing Windows […]
Tonight I finally got around to installing the recently released Windows Server Technical Preview 2, which was published around the time of the annual BuildConf in the US. So I ran up a Hyper-V image and hit the standard product selection screen. I was greeted, as it has been rumoured, […]
Welcome back, old friend. Well, it’s now official – sort of – given that we’re looking at pre-release software, but the start menu is set to return after an absence since Windows 7. It’s clear in the most recent preview (9926) that there are big changes in store for the […]
This article will look at populating an archive of Twitter data into SQL Server 2014. This process can apply to older versions of SQL Server.
Recently, Microsoft released a preview version of their next version of their team development suite, known as Team Foundation Server (TFS). Long time readers of Sanders Technology will know that I’ve a long history with TFS, and I’m genuinely a fan of the platform. Team Foundation Server 2013 breaks from […]
Today we’re taking a look at the very recently released – and some would say highly anticipated – preview of the upcoming upgrade for Windows 8, creatively known as Windows 8.1 (Preview). This will be a two (or possibly three) part entry, starting naturally with the installation experience. From MSDN, […]