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(Last updated in 2018) Ten of thousands of students and corporate trainees worldwide are today getting virtual technical training online via cloud-based training platforms. These students are getting valuable hands-on experience using real, full-functioning applications,…

Introduction Are you spending time shipping and installing dozens of specialized hardware units, getting on planes to remote sites, configuring servers, wrangling with logistics and dealing with the challenges of gaining access to data centers,…

CloudShare’s virtual IT training solution powers thousands of software training sessions each month,from large-scale events to impromptu meetups and online virtual classes. June’s “User of the Month”, Marshall Butler, has used this flexibility to build…

Learning technical skills requires a lot more than memorizing concepts. Students need hands-on experience using tools themselves. Comfort with these tools often comes only after some safe, self-paced experimentation. That’s why technical lab work is…

This time I am sharing a small script that allows to create a choice site column through PowerShell. As you can see, the way to create this type of column is the same as if…

CloudShare’s secure on-demand labs house thousands of enterprise set-ups, from “simple” web apps to multi-tier monoliths. In our new “User of the Month” section, we will share what’s behind the firewall in these environments, and…

Over the past few weeks we have been continuously improving CloudShare in order to further simplify your setup process and help you deliver your solutions faster. In this post, we’re more than happy to share…

This time I’m sharing a new script that allows to get all PropertyBags for a Site Collection in SharePoint 2013 You can download the script from the following link: How to read all property bags…

Today on the Office Blog, Julia White wrote that SharePoint 2016 on-premise is scheduled for a summer 2015 reveal date. For Microsoft observers and partners, this is an important affirmation, but hardly surprising news. On-Premise…

Well, this was the question I made myself when I was creating a new virtual machine template for CloudShare’s pre-configured environment templates. Basically, by default Visual Studio 2013 Community Edition doesn’t come with the Visual…

For mature IT set-ups, virtualization is a must, if just for app consolidation and management. But testing, changing and sharing a virtualized environment is rarely done, since it’s considered dreadfully complex: see this expert’s 68…

It was big, bad news for many when Azure went down for 11 hours in November. And it was good news for the IT industry, and cloud consumers, when they published a teardown of the…