A recently added "tamper protection" feature finally corrects an obvious security gap in Microsoft's anti-malware solution.
Brien revisits the LinkedIn-powered Resume Assistant in Word, which has only gotten more intuitive and useful over the past year.
It's not enough to have a backup and recovery plan. Today's IT pros need to practice salesmanship and PR savvy to get through a disaster.
- By Joey D'Antoni
- 04/03/2019
Microsoft's move to build Edge on Chromium raises a big question: With Firefox and Chrome dominating the browser market, why does it still matter what Microsoft does?
The trickiest thing about making a stretched cluster work with Hyper-V is getting the underlying storage to work properly.
Intel's launch of the CXL Consortium draws fresh battle lines in the interconnect wars.
- By John K. Waters
- 03/27/2019
When mysterious changes to the Hyper-V virtual switch caused all of his virtual machines to lose connectivity, Brien was left puzzling over the source of the problem and the workaround.
The GPU maker has unveiled the CUDA-X AI, its latest technology to advance artificial intelligence in the datacenter.
- By John K. Waters
- 03/20/2019
Manual account creation can be tedious, time-consuming and prone to human error, especially if you have more than a handful of Office 365 users to set up. Brien shows you a better way.
It's unlikely that machines will ever perfectly mimic a human brain, but next-generation computers could come very close. Here are some educated guesses as to what the future of computing could look like.
In the early days of Windows, the pagefile helped make up for shortages in physical memory. But should you be using a pagefile on a virtual machine?
Microsoft's drive to put Azure SQL Data Warehouse on more equal footing with SQL Server is finally paying off.
- By Joey D'Antoni
- 03/07/2019
With Office 365 emerging as a big target for today's hackers, it's important to know how your organization's security measures up.
It can be tempting to only back up the Office 365 applications that you actually use and leave the rest to chance. But as Brien explains, that approach carries a huge risk.
The next release of Microsoft's mixed-reality headset corrects some major flaws in its predecessor and opens new possibilities for its practical use.
With $80 million in funding raised, the startup is bent on hastening the death of the datacenter hard drive.
- By John K. Waters
- 02/27/2019
Metadata can say a lot about a given document -- as well as the document's creator. Here's how to manage what types metadata appear in your Office documents to protect your security while still giving useful information.
Earlier, Brien walked through the steps of preparing a physical Windows Server 2016 machine for a storage refresh. Now, he shows how to complete the process, all the way to OS restoration.
To spruce up some aging lab hardware, Brien decided to make the jump to all-flash storage. Here's a walk-through of the first half of the process.
Tech giants Google, Apple and others are expanding their datacenter footprints at a rapid rate, and it's pushing the industry to find better ways to power all that infrastructure.
- By John K. Waters
- 02/19/2019