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Market researchers from IDC, Gartner and Canalys released their respective third-quarter PC market estimates this week, and all indicators are pointing to record sales growth driven by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
10/14/2020
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Microsoft's October bundle of security patches, released on Tuesday, brings fixes for just 87 common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVEs) across Windows, Office, SharePoint and many other software products.
10/13/2020
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
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.
10/13/2020
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Microsoft described its years-long effort working with the courts, software security firms and telcos to eliminate the Trickbot criminal network.
10/13/2020
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A preview of Microsoft's Continuous Access Evaluation (CAE) security solution is now available for Azure Active Directory users that have configured Conditional Access policies, Microsoft announced on Friday.
10/12/2020
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Microsoft issued a Thursday announcement promising to deliver improved Azure-based tools to developers working on "intelligent edge devices" that use Arm-based processors and artificial intelligence solutions.
10/09/2020
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
What's the difference between Microsoft Lists and Microsoft To Do? Brien gives an overview for what use cases suit which app the best.
10/09/2020
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Big Blue announced a major restructuring move on Thursday that would split its operations between its managed infrastructure business and its hybrid cloud and AI solutions.
10/08/2020
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Azure Active Directory Conditional Access support for the Office 365 suite of applications is now at the "general availability" commercial-release stage, Microsoft announced on Thursday.
10/08/2020
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Microsoft plans to turn on a new Azure Active Directory "Publisher Verification" security feature that will block end user consent to unverified app publishers starting next month.
10/07/2020
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Microsoft announced on Tuesday that its new "All Tenants" feature in the Microsoft 365 Admin Center portal is starting to arrive for partners that work with cloud service providers and multiple customers.
10/07/2020
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Cloud data management and backup solutions company Veeam has bought its partner Kasten, a provider of Kubernetes backup and disaster recovery solutions.
10/06/2020
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Microsoft has shelled out $374,300 in security bounties as part of its Azure Sphere Security Research Challenge, the company said this week.
10/06/2020
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
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.
10/05/2020
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Microsoft highlighted a few Azure Active Directory improvements during last week's Ignite event.
10/02/2020
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Nintex announced a "definitive agreement" on Thursday to acquire kindred process management and automation firm K2 Software Inc.
10/01/2020
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Microsoft announced on Monday that it's planning to end its 20-year-old Open License program for small and midsize organizations, starting on Jan. 1, 2022.
10/01/2020
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Microsoft announced last week in an Exchange Teams post and in at least one Ignite session that it will offer new application server products next year, but only via subscription-based licensing models.
10/01/2020
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Microsoft has announced the release of its "Digital Defense Report," which is described as "a reimagining" of Microsoft's "Security Intelligence Report" (SIR).
09/29/2020
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Ignite 2020 saw the public preview of Azure Arc enabled data services, the latest step in Microsoft's bid to demystify multicloud. Principal program manager Travis Wright explains how it works.
09/29/2020
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The acquisitions are expected to enhance Ivanti's mobile endpoint security offerings.
09/28/2020
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Microsoft has affirmed its software-defined networking infrastructure support for telecom companies, especially as they move more toward rolling out 5G wireless services.
09/28/2020
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Microsoft took the occasion of its Ignite event last week to rebrand its enterprise security solutions for premises and cloud environments, mostly by putting "Microsoft Defender" on their names.
09/28/2020
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Project Cortex team members Naomi Moneypenny and Dan Holme explain the origins of SharePoint Syntex, how it benefits orgs with content management problems, and addresses security and governance concerns.
09/25/2020
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The most perilous moments in a spaceflight can happen after the landing.
09/25/2020
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
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.
09/24/2020
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Microsoft described a couple of developments along SharePoint product lines during a Tuesday Ignite online keynote talk.
09/23/2020
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
Despite the strangeness of the keynote, Microsoft pulled off some its most geek-worthy product demos at Ignite this week.
09/23/2020
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Improvements in the Microsoft Endpoint Manager (MEM) management solution were part of Tuesday's Microsoft Ignite online event.
09/22/2020
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
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.
09/22/2020
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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) 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