The pandemic has forced IT pros to work much longer hours than usual to keep their organizations running. Reclaiming that personal time can be tough, but help is available from an unlikely source: Microsoft 365.
Occasionally, restarting a failed System Center Virtual Machine Manager job can leave your virtualization infrastructure in an unknown state. Here's how to avoid that.
One of the most useful features in Microsoft System Center Operations Manager is its reporting engine. Installing it can get a little tricky, though. Here's a step-by-step guide.
A simple four-line script unexpectedly returned a host of errors for Brien. The issue turned out to be deceptively simple.
Here are three pointers for finding and fixing any bugs in your PowerShell script, no matter how long it is.
Brien details the pros and cons of Hyper-V replication versus clustering, and what scenarios work best for each method.
Backup solutions are more reliable now than they've ever been, but it's still important to have a second data-protection measure in case your backup fails. That's where Hyper-V comes in.
What's the difference between Microsoft Lists and Microsoft To Do? Brien gives an overview for what use cases suit which app the best.
Microsoft has started to roll out a new feature that promises to turn Excel into a much more valuable data-surfacing tool than ever before. Here's how it works.
Your personal data is just as vulnerable to disk failures and ransomware as corporate data. But right now, there are threats that are more difficult to protect against: wildfires and hurricanes.
Despite the strangeness of the keynote, Microsoft pulled off some its most geek-worthy product demos at Ignite this week.
Something about Satya Nadella's opening keynote makes Brien wonder if Microsoft thinks we'd all be better off doing everything -- including conferences like Ignite -- remotely, even after the pandemic is over.
Microsoft now lets Microsoft 365 connect to various data sources -- whether in the cloud or on-premises -- so that those data sources can be indexed for searching.
Because sometimes (a lot of the time), Protected View isn't enough to guard against potentially malicious Office documents.
Ignite is Microsoft's most important event of the year. What direction will Microsoft take for Ignite's first-ever virtual outing, during the IT industry's most challenging year on record?