by sebmatthews | Apr 7, 2017 | Cloud, Microsoft
Came across a doozy today. I’m a big fan of TrayStatus, a neat utility for Windows from BinaryFortress. It provides a number of visual indicators right into the Window System Tray and in my case (as a Surface Book user) I use it for disk I/O and (when writing)...
by sebmatthews | Dec 29, 2016 | Cloud, Hyper-V
Hyper-V is a virtualisation technology developed by Microsoft which enables the efficient sharing of host compute resources between multiple virtual guest machines. A native hypervisor, Hyper-V allows multiple virtual machine guests to run simultaneously providing...
by sebmatthews | Dec 6, 2016 | Azure, Cloud, Microsoft, Office 365
This last few days has been interesting. One of my newer business ventures (extaCloud) had its first global summit (sounds grand, right?) and I’ve been locked in a hotel suite in New York working through use cases for a product we’re launching early next...
by sebmatthews | Nov 11, 2016 | Cloud, Microsoft, Office 365, PowerShell
I’ve recently experienced a specific occurrence of this issue within one of our small customer tenants. The resolution was simple, but the cause was frustrating – Microsoft’s approach to disabling trial/non-GA license types within a subscription. In...
by sebmatthews | Sep 7, 2016 | Azure, Cloud, Microsoft, Office 365
It’s been a while in the making, but finally today in a blog post here, Microsoft have announce availability of 2 new UK Office 365 datacentres. For a while now, customers in the UK with concerns over sovereignty of their data have been mumbling about the lack...
by sebmatthews | Sep 1, 2016 | Azure, Cloud, Microsoft
So the onward march of progress in Azure took a surprising turn today when an out of the blue announcement was made on the Enterprise Mobility and Security Blog (see post here) announcing the end (or “winding down”) of Azure RemoteApp, Microsoft’s...
