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Microsoft announced on Monday that the "new" Yammer Conversations Web Part for companywide chats is now available to SharePoint Online tenancies at the "general availability" commercial-release stage.
07/20/2020
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Microsoft has a "Cloud PC" effort under works that apparently will be somewhat different from existing Microsoft services, such as the Windows Virtual Desktop virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) service.
07/20/2020
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Microsoft's plans to put an early end to workflows for SharePoint 2010 Online, announced earlier this month, have elicited multiple complaints from IT pros, a petition to postpone the deprecation and a little bit of help.
07/18/2020
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
Microsoft took its time on Word's ink editing features, making them generally available only recently. Now that Brien has put them through their paces in the real world, here's his take on their usefulness.
07/17/2020
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The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Thursday announced the release of an emergency directive on patching a Windows Server Domain Name System (DNS) vulnerability (CVE-2020-1350).
07/16/2020
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Microsoft and Citrix this week outlined the current direction of their longtime collaborative partnership efforts.
07/15/2020
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Microsoft on Tuesday released July security patches, addressing a total of 123 common vulnerabilities and exposures.
07/14/2020
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The Microsoft Secure Score service has reached "general availability" commercial-release status worldwide, Microsoft announced on Monday.
07/13/2020
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Microsoft this week repeated some patch warnings to IT pros, with a couple of milestones coming up soon.
07/13/2020
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
With a new Cortana feature, Microsoft brushes off one of its old ideas for helping Outlook users stick to their tasks and answer their e-mails.
07/13/2020
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Microsoft outlined some recent security and compliance enhancements that are either already available or will be coming to Microsoft 365 tenancies using OneDrive and SharePoint by year's end.
07/10/2020
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Microsoft recently described new Teams features to come, with many of them aiming to make the remote videoconferencing experience feel more like an actual physical meeting.
07/09/2020
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
Microsoft's new personal finance tool hints at what's in store for next-generation Office applications, from more third-party integrations to subscription requirements.
07/09/2020
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A recent study from U.K.-based Sophos indicates that public cloud security incidents were becoming disturbingly frequent since the start of 2020, even before the COVID-19 pandemic forced organizations to lean more on public cloud platforms to support remote work.
07/09/2020
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Microsoft announced on Tuesday that it has acquired Orions Systems with the aim of enhancing Dynamics 365 capabilities, as well as the Microsoft Power Platform.
07/08/2020
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Microsoft has hired the Romanian operations of software engineering and design services company Movial to develop an Android-based operating system solution for the Microsoft Devices business segment.
07/07/2020
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Microsoft on Monday gave notice that it will be ending support this year for the "workflows" component of SharePoint 2010 Online, as well as deprecating that component for SharePoint 2013 Online.
07/07/2020
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Microsoft this week detailed its legal efforts to seize domains related to a "sophisticated, new phishing scheme" that's taking advantage of the COVID-19 pandemic to attack customers in 62 countries.
07/07/2020
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
Don't call it a comeback (because that's not likely). But as Brien explains, there are three ways that today's smartphone market leaves the door open for Microsoft to bring Windows back to smartphones.
07/07/2020
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Microsoft last week described the confusion it is attempting to avoid by removing the client graphical user interface (GUI)-based controls to defer Windows 10 feature updates, starting with version 2004.
07/06/2020
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Surprisingly, the worldwide COVID-19 lockdown has hardly slowed down the space training process for Brien. In fact, it has accelerated it.
07/03/2020
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
Microsoft's current Surface flagship, the Surface Pro X, already runs on ARM. But as the ill-fated Surface RT showed, going all-in on ARM never did Microsoft many favors.
07/01/2020
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An old flaw in Microsoft Office is being used in targeted attacks, according to researchers at Menlo Security on Tuesday.
06/30/2020
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Joey explains why it's worth it to endure a little inconvenience for the long-term benefits of a password manager and multifactor authentication.
06/29/2020
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Microsoft announced this week that the Windows Autopilot service used with Microsoft Intune now supports enrolling devices, even in cases where virtual private networks (VPNs) might get in the way.
06/26/2020
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Microsoft is pivoting its retail operations to focus more on online sales, a plan that would mean the closing of most physical Microsoft Store locations.
06/26/2020
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Microsoft has made it more difficult for organizations to defer a Windows 10 feature update, starting with Windows 10 version 2004, known as the "May 2020 Update."
06/25/2020
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
One of the lesser-known capabilities of System Center Virtual Machine Manager is its ability to convert VMware virtual machines so they can run on Microsoft Hyper-V. The process isn't without its quirks, however.
06/25/2020
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Microsoft and Harvard University have been collaborating on open source tools aimed at easing data sharing while also preserving privacy, according to a Wednesday announcement.
06/24/2020
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Microsoft this week announced the end dates for Azure Active Directory Authentication Library (ADAL) and the Azure Active Directory Graph API, which are both getting deprecated.
06/23/2020
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A few Microsoft Defender Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) enhancements that expand the product's operating system platform support were announced by Microsoft this month.
06/23/2020
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
There's another threat to consider when it comes to developing a backup strategy for static data on an active volume: bit rot.
06/23/2020
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Microsoft on Monday announced the acquisition of CyberX, which will help bolster Microsoft's Internet of Things (IoT) security solutions.
06/22/2020
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Microsoft on Thursday outlined an updated calendar scheme for IT pros managing updates to Windows 10, Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager.
06/22/2020
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
Working with absolute and relative cell references in Excel, plus retrieving a value from a second sheet.
06/19/2020
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Microsoft this week announced a few sundry news bits for IT pros maintaining Windows and Microsoft 365 environments.
06/18/2020
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Microsoft announced on Thursday that it bought ADRM Software Inc., a maker of data models for various industries.
06/18/2020
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E-mails exposed on Wednesday by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) indicated that Microsoft was actively trying to sell biometric and facial recognition technology to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) over the past two years.
06/17/2020
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
Now that you know how to use Microsoft Word to make barcodes, the next step is to keep track of your barcoded items in Excel. Here's how.
06/17/2020
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Microsoft this week announced some minor name changes to its Windows 10 update process and its test releases, and it rolled out a new baseline tool for IT pros to help with Windows 10 Group Policy settings.
06/16/2020
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Microsoft and the SAS Institute Inc. are expanding their partnership, with Microsoft Azure serving as SAS' preferred cloud service provider, according to a Monday announcement.
06/15/2020
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Microsoft announced a couple of notable Excel features this month for people who keep track of financial matters.
06/15/2020
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
In this three-part series, Brien shows how to use Microsoft Office to organize personal resources or create a small business inventory-tracking system. Step one: Generate barcodes in Word.
06/15/2020
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Microsoft this week announced a few milestones for its Azure Files cloud-based file share service.
06/12/2020
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Microsoft's announcement that it will condition the sale of facial recognition technology to U.S. police departments based on human rights got a reaction from the Trump administration.
06/12/2020
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Some optional Windows Server security implementations will become mandatory for Microsoft's hardware partners to include in their products, starting in January.
06/11/2020
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Microsoft this week announced a preview of nested virtualization on Windows 10 machines using AMD processors.
06/11/2020
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Microsoft this week provided an update on its years-long efforts to foster a decentralized identity approach to user authentications.
06/10/2020
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Microsoft this week announced the arrival of a new Community Hub feature in Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager.
06/10/2020
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Microsoft on Tuesday released a total of 129 security patches, with 11 rated "Critical" and 118 deemed "Important" in severity.
06/09/2020