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To kick off the Microsoft Ignite virtual conference, CEO Satya Nadella made a bold claim about the public cloud with the second-largest market share behind Amazon.
09/22/2020
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Microsoft flooded virtual attendees of its Ignite conference with general availability announcements ranging from the high-profile Project Cortex to Azure SQL to major and minor components of Microsoft's three clouds.
09/22/2020
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Microsoft is buying ZeniMax Media, parent company of Bethesda Softworks and other game-maker affiliates, for $7.5 billion in cash.
09/21/2020
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Microsoft Ignite, starting Sept. 22, will be a mixture of keynote talks, technical sessions, Microsoft Teams-hosted chats and "breakout" videos that will be accessible via a so-called Virtual Hub portal.
09/17/2020
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
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.
09/17/2020
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Back on dry land after spending two years submerged in the waters off the coast of Scotland, Project Natick, Microsoft's experimental underwater datacenter prototype, has been deemed a success.
09/15/2020
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The SoftBank Group agreed to sell U.K.-based chip design company Arm Ltd. to Nvidia in a stock-and-cash deal valued at $40 billion.
09/15/2020
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
Because sometimes (a lot of the time), Protected View isn't enough to guard against potentially malicious Office documents.
09/15/2020
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The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)Â affirmed in a Monday announcement that code is publicly accessible that could be used to exploit a "Critical"-rated Netlogon vulnerability in newer Windows Server versions.
09/14/2020
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Microsoft's efforts to buy TikTok's social media operations outside China have ended, even as rival bidder Oracle's proposal has apparently succeeded.
09/14/2020
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Microsoft has been working to make it easier for organizations to deploy its Windows Virtual Desktop (WVD) service, according to a recent podcast chat.
09/14/2020
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Microsoft this week announced a provisioning tool at the preview stage for organizations trying Universal Print.
09/10/2020
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Microsoft on Tuesday announced limited-time offerings for Microsoft Teams users, particularly when organizations select its Audio Conferencing or Advanced Communications add-on plans.
09/10/2020
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In the second part of this series, Joey describes the methods that Microsoft uses to manage code rollouts, and how it detects hardware and software problems on Azure SQL.
09/10/2020
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Microsoft announced that the installation of its September security updates could stop future software updates from arriving if organizations using its Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) solution for patch management are connecting using the HTTP protocol rather than HTTPS.
09/09/2020
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Microsoft on Tuesday released security patches to address 129 common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVEs) this month in its software products.
09/08/2020
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Microsoft promises 99.995 percent uptime for the Azure SQL platform, which is incredible. In the first of a two-part series, Joey takes an close look at the infrastructure that supports high availability in Azure database services.
09/08/2020
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
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?
09/04/2020
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Microsoft on Thursday announced the commercial "general availability" launch of Microsoft Lists in Microsoft Teams, which is available to both business and government subscribers.
09/03/2020
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Microsoft and VMware on Wednesday announced the "general availability" commercial release of Azure Spring Cloud, which provides infrastructure support for Spring Boot Java application developers.
09/02/2020
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Microsoft on Tuesday announced the ability to run Windows 10 Pro or Enterprise operating systems on Surface Hub 2S conference devices.
09/02/2020
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
Why did Microsoft go with Android and not Windows 10? Why aren't other Surface devices supported? Microsoft's upcoming Surface Duo might end up being brilliant, but for now it has us scratching our heads.
09/02/2020
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Microsoft last week announced a preview of using Microsoft Endpoint Manager (MEM) with update 2006 to manage Microsoft Defender Antivirus policies.
09/01/2020
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
Since Microsoft acquired it in 2012, Yammer has been the odd application out. Microsoft's latest updates bring the chat application closer to the rest of the Microsoft 365 family.
08/31/2020
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Microsoft this week announced a more simplified way to add security baseline settings for Windows 10 PCs used by Microsoft 365 Business Premium subscribers.
08/28/2020
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Microsoft engineers outlined a way to find vulnerable Netlogon channel connections for organizations using newer Windows Server systems.
08/28/2020
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Space is a very unforgiving environment, and it's critical to use the correct procedures when emergencies occur. That's a big part of why aerobatic flight is so important.
08/28/2020
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Members of the Windows Insider Program can now test the next long-term servicing channel (LTSC) release of Windows Server, Microsoft announced on Wednesday.
08/27/2020
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New Windows Terminal and Azure CLI (command line interface) updates were released this week.
08/27/2020
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Microsoft on Wednesday announced it has extended the service life of Windows 10 version 1803 by about six months, but just for certain editions that are typically used by organizations and schools.
08/26/2020
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Microsoft on Tuesday announced the release of a transcription capability within its Word for the Web app for Microsoft 365 subscribers.
08/26/2020
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Microsoft announced on Monday that Microsoft Defender Application Guard for Office is now at the public preview stage.
08/24/2020
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Microsoft has backported support for Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) version 2 into Windows 10 versions 1903 and 1909.
08/21/2020
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Microsoft on Thursday announced that Windows 10 version 20H2 has been released for testing in preparation for a coming commercial release in the fall, known as the "general availability" release.
08/21/2020
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Microsoft has turned on Transport Layer Security (TLS) 1.3 in Windows client operating systems by default in its Windows Insider Program preview releases, the company explained on Thursday.
08/20/2020
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
One of the best new features in PowerShell 7 is the ability to perform parallel execution of script blocks, which can drastically reduce the amount of time it takes to process ForEach-Object loops.
08/20/2020
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Microsoft has renamed Microsoft Forms Pro, a product for sending surveys, to "Microsoft Dynamics 365 Customer Voice."
08/19/2020
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Microsoft this week talked about how it has been improving communications for IT pros dealing with software patch and Azure service issues.
08/18/2020
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
To avoid errors, it's important to write PowerShell scripts that prevent code from running on an unintended platform. Luckily, this is easier to do than it sounds.
08/18/2020
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Microsoft on Monday announced a timeline on when support for the Internet Explorer 11 browser and the "legacy" (EdgeHTML) version of the Microsoft Edge browser will end.
08/17/2020
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Users of the Azure AD Conditional Access service are now getting a new policy that will block devices using older authentication methods by default, unless granted an exception.
08/17/2020
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Microsoft this week described a few perks and best practices for IT pros to follow when managing and deploying Windows 10 updates.
08/14/2020
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Microsoft announced that its Surface Duo pocket-sized device can now be preordered, but just by U.S. users.
08/12/2020
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Microsoft released August security patches on Tuesday, addressing 120 common vulnerabilities and exposures.
08/11/2020
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Microsoft announced this week that's it's now possible for Office 365 users to import table data from Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) files into the Microsoft Excel spreadsheet program.
08/07/2020
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
IT pros are working long hours right now to keep their organizations afloat during the COVID-19 pandemic. But that shouldn't be the expectation once the crisis passes.
08/07/2020
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Microsoft announced the release of an Advanced Communications product addition for organizations using Microsoft Teams.
08/06/2020
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Microsoft wants to donate the code for a new Open Service Mesh (OSM) project, designed to run on Kubernetes, to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), according to a Wednesday announcement.
08/06/2020
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
With much of the corporate world now interacting via online chat, Microsoft is throwing a bunch of new features at its Teams platform, hoping that at least a few of them will stick. But chat bubbles?
08/05/2020
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Microsoft announced a couple of Azure Active Directory-based security enhancements this week, which are now available for end users.
08/04/2020