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From PowerPoint to Excel, Microsoft is beefing up its support for digital inking across its Office 365 apps. Here's a snapshot of upcoming features.
11/18/2019
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Salesforce.com and Microsoft on Thursday announced a strategic partnership on cloud technology use.
11/15/2019
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SharePoint news from Ignite consisted of lots of improvements, some driven by customer requests.
11/15/2019
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Microsoft has spilled a lot of ink touting the ways that its new Surface-branded peripherals will be bring Office 365 features to life.
11/14/2019
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Microsoft's enhancements to the Azure Active Directory Identity Protection service are now said to be "generally available" (GA), or ready for commercial use, per a Wednesday announcement.
11/13/2019
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Microsoft on Tuesday announced the release of Windows 10 version 1909, a new operating system product that's also known as the "Windows 10 November 2019 Update."
11/12/2019
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Of that number, 13 vulnerabilities are rated "Critical" to patch, while 62 vulnerabilities are deemed "Important."
11/12/2019
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With a raft of new Office 365 features in the pipeline, Microsoft also seems ready to change the way it bills its subscribers. Will it replicate Azure's pay-per-use model, or will it look like something else entirely?
11/12/2019
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Microsoft is offering one year of free support under its Extended Security Updates program to Windows 7 users if their organizations have E5 licensing.
11/08/2019
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Microsoft has clarified the more confusing elements of SQL Server licensing and extended major benefits to customers. The catch is that Software Assurance is required to take advantage of them.
11/08/2019
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And now for something (almost) completely different, Brien sees how well a HoloLens-like headset weathers the unique conditions of a zero gravity flight.
11/08/2019
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Microsoft on Thursday described its research on the so-called "BlueKeep" Remote Desktop Services vulnerability in older Windows systems, finding signs that it's being used to install coin miners.
11/07/2019
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Microsoft announced on Thursday that it has started shipping HoloLens 2, its mixed reality headset.
11/07/2019
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Microsoft's new Project Cortex knowledge network for Microsoft 365 users, introduced by CEO Satya Nadella at the Ignite event, is powered by SharePoint and other technologies.
11/06/2019
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Microsoft on Monday announced a bunch or Azure Active Directory enhancements as part of its Ignite event happenings.
11/05/2019
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Microsoft on Tuesday released more information about Azure Arc, the hybrid cloud and infrastructure toolkit it announced during the opening keynote of its Ignite 2019 conference in Orlando, Fla.
11/05/2019
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Enterprise data storage provider NetApp is extending its Data Fabric strategy with a new consumption-based, pay-as-you-go data management offering for workloads in the cloud, co-located or on-premises.
11/05/2019
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As part of Ignite, Microsoft announced a rebranding for its main client management tools, Linux support on the Windows Virtual Desktop service and other bits likely of interest to IT pros.
11/04/2019
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In many ways, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella delivered a very typical Ignite opening keynote -- with a few notable exceptions.
11/04/2019
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From Big Data clusters to faster database recovery, here are the biggest changes Microsoft has made to its new flagship database server.
11/04/2019
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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella described the new boundaries Microsoft is breaking in its Azure cloud.
11/04/2019
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Microsoft announced on Oct. 30 that it expanded SQL Server passive use rights for organizations licensing SQL Server with Software Assurance (SA) coverage.
11/01/2019
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Microsoft has somewhat altered its plans to permit end users to buy Power Platform products outside of IT controls, according to a Thursday update to its self-service purchase FAQ.
11/01/2019
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Microsoft is replacing its TechNet and MSDN forums with a new site, called "Microsoft Q&A," with completion planned for "mid-2020."
10/31/2019
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The Microsoft Teams collaboration application for Office 365 subscribers is starting to get more file access and sharing capabilities derived from SharePoint Online, Microsoft announced on Wednesday.
10/31/2019
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Creating a shared virtual hard disk is a relatively easy process. Brien walks you through it.
10/30/2019
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Microsoft is planning a "general availability" release of PowerShell 7 for production environments sometime in January.
10/29/2019
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Microsoft on Monday announced new modified group expiration controls for Office 365, allowing groups to automatically renew if there's been user activity.
10/28/2019
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One of the biggest government contract events in, well, ever, happened Friday when Microsoft was named the winner of JEDI, the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure deal.
10/28/2019
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Microsoft on Monday announced that its "experts on demand" security consulting service, part of its Threat Experts service, has reached the "general availability" (GA) commercial-release stage.
10/28/2019
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Microsoft on Monday set a February 2020 general availability date for Azure Sphere and revealed a handful of new features for Azure IoT Central among a raft of Internet of Things (IoT) announcements.
10/28/2019
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While you wait for PowerShell to add support for ternary operators, here's a method you can use now to evaluate Boolean conditions without the need to write If – Then – Else statements.
10/28/2019
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The number of large datacenters around the globe operated by hyperscale providers grew to 504 in the third quarter, which is triple their number at the beginning of 2013.
10/25/2019
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Organizations purchasing Microsoft 365 subscription licenses can easily face licensing compliance issues, upping their costs.
10/24/2019
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Instead of viewing data in a static list, use PowerShell's grid view capability to manipulate how your data is displayed.
10/24/2019
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Microsoft on Monday announced that it will permit Power Platform purchasing next month that'll be apart from typical IT departmental controls.
10/23/2019
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Microsoft is off to a strong start in the first quarter of its fiscal 2020, beating Wall Street expectations as cloud products continued to perform well and the PC business benefitted from end-of-life deadlines for Windows 7.
10/23/2019
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Microsoft and its hardware partners recently described new "Secured-core" PCs, which add protections against firmware-based attacks.
10/22/2019
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Backups are the only guaranteed way to save your data after a ransomware attack. Here's how to make sure your backup strategy has ransomware mitigation built right in.
10/22/2019
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Microsoft announced on Monday that it bought Mover to help organizations migrate data and shift to using Microsoft 365 services.
10/21/2019
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Oracle co-CEO and former Hewlett-Packard chief executive Mark Hurd died last Friday at the age of 62 from unspecified causes.
10/21/2019
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SAP, a major player in the enterprise application software space, is partnering with Microsoft to entice more customers to move their on-premises implementations to the Azure cloud.
10/21/2019
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Microsoft this week described installation instructions for volume licensing users of Windows 7 Service Pack 1 to get Extended Security Updates (ESU) activated on PCs.
10/18/2019
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Issues affecting the Azure Active Directory service blocked customers from accessing applications early on the morning of Oct. 18 for about 2.5 hours.
10/18/2019
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A new AI-powered feature in Office scans your e-mails and documents to help you tell one "SaaS" apart from another.
10/18/2019
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Microsoft and Alibaba Cloud on Wednesday described an Open Application Model (OAM) for Web applications.
10/17/2019
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Desktop Analytics, Microsoft's service for viewing Windows device information, is now deemed ready for use by organizations.
10/16/2019
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Does the rise of the public cloud mean the end of the enterprise datacenter? That's an oversimplification of a complex issue, according to one CEO whose company specializes in hyperscale, modular datacenters.
10/16/2019
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How a new capability is succeeding where Cortana failed at taming the Outlook beast.
10/16/2019
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Microsoft's Internet of Things (IoT) product line is continuing to grow, with a few new developments highlighted this week.
10/15/2019