If Microsoft can run its massive, land-bound datacenters with almost no tech staff, the idea of letting a submerged datacenter operate for five years without any direct human contact seems at least plausible.
There's a rumor that Microsoft is planning to replace Hyper-V with an alternative feature called simply "Virtual Machines." Brien breaks down just how little sense that would make.
A relatively new type of phishing attack is targeting Office 365 users while completely circumventing all of the usual security defenses.
The company's plan to modernize its infrastructure also includes tapping open source technologies and -- as Microsoft and Facebook have done -- open sourcing its server designs in turn.
- By John K. Waters
- 09/11/2018
While testing out the Office 2019 preview, Brien noticed something unexpected: Office 2019 seems nearly indistinguishable from Office 2016.
With the Office 2019 release approaching, now is a good time to take the preview version out for a test drive. Unfortunately, that's easier said than done.
Microsoft's rapid-fire release cycle for SQL Server means it's easy for database admins to miss useful new features. Here are some recent additions that might otherwise fly under the radar.
- By Joey D'Antoni
- 09/04/2018
If you've ever worked through the process of linking Office 365 resources to an organization's existing IT infrastructure, then you know that Office 35 onboarding can be daunting.
Launched at this week's VMworld event in Las Vegas, AMD's new Radeon Pro V340 graphics card is designed for heavy-duty workloads like Desktop as a Service and CAD software.
- By John K. Waters
- 08/29/2018
If you have ever seen a demo of the Microsoft Surface Hub, you no doubt have also seen the Whiteboard app being used.
The enterprise datacenter is changing rapidly, thanks to serverless computing, AI and machine learning. But one thing remains the same: Datacenters run hot and cooling them is expensive.
- By John K. Waters
- 08/20/2018
What exactly makes a Microsoft MVP? In the wake of recent developments around Microsoft's selection and renewal process, not even this longtime MVP knows for certain.
Microsoft's forthcoming Windows Server product looks to be jam-packed with new features. Here are some of the standouts, specific to Hyper-V.
Microsoft has been giving some longstanding Windows features like Notepad a facelift with each new Windows 10 preview build. But as Brien notes, some of the changes are more annoying than helpful.
Managing Integration Services used to be a pain until Microsoft began including it in all Windows OSes, starting with Windows Server 2016. But administrators of older platforms don't need to be left high and dry.
There is actually quite a bit of VM info that is hidden from view, but that can be exposed through the Get-VM cmdlet if you know how. Brien walks you through the steps.
You're going to need a bigger network connection.
- By Joey D'Antoni
- 08/06/2018
What exactly will this new, nearly datacenter-less world look like? Gartner's head of research sees enterprises making a number of adaptive moves.
- By John K. Waters
- 08/03/2018
As Brien explains, creating a virtual disk in Windows Storage Spaces is akin to creating a map to the underlying raw storage that will be used by the volumes on the virtual disk.
In this introduction to Microsoft's Storage Spaces technology, Brien walks you through the steps of creating a storage space and a virtual disk.