New Azure Disk sizes and bursting support are now available

Azure Disks—block-level storage volumes managed by Azure and used with Azure Virtual Machines—now have new 4-GiB, 8-GiB, and 16-GiB sizes available on both premium and standard SSDs. The new disk sizes introduced on standard SSD disk provide the most cost-efficient SSD offering in the cloud, providing consistent disk performance at the lowest cost per GB. We’ve also increased the performance target for all standard SSD disks of 64-GiB or less (E6) to 500 IOPS and 60 MiB/second, matching that with standard HDDs. It’s an ideal replacement for HDD-based disk storage from either on-premises or cloud. In addition, we now support…
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VMware vExpert 2018

The vExpert announcement was released overnight by VMware and I’m honoured and pleased to say I have been awarded the accolade for the sixth year running. I would like the thank Cory (@vCommunityGuy) and the team at VMware for all their hard work vetting the individuals that apply. Looking forward to working with many vExperts and attending the many VMware events throughout 2018.
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Outlook fails to send emails after Windows 10 upgrade

I have recently upgraded a number of machines to Windows 10 Home and Windows 10 Pro editions and noticed that for some strange reason Outlook 2010/2013 stops sending emails instead they are just held in the Outbox folder and never get sent.  After doing some troubleshooting I found the answer.  It looks like a system file has become corrupt and by running an SFC /SCANNOW resolves this issue. Click on the search icon, search on cmd when you find the application (Command Prompt) run as administrator (i.e. right click it and click run as administrator). You will then see a…
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