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The Microsoft Defender Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) E5 subscription plan now has an optional "tamper protection" security feature, Microsoft announced on Monday.
10/14/2019
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
Microsoft recently added a new optical character recognition feature to Excel that lets users import data from a photograph taken from a smartphone. Here's how to use it.
10/14/2019
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Microsoft is working on adding capabilities to its Microsoft Authenticator app to help defeat security breaches enabled by advanced attack techniques, including phishing and man-in-the-middle methods.
10/11/2019
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
If you need to generate Hyper-V inventory reports but don't want the hassle of writing your own custom PowerShell script, here is a shortcut.
10/11/2019
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Microsoft this week announced a couple of noteworthy previews of new capabilities for IT pros using the Azure Active Directory identity and access management service.
10/10/2019
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An effort to help enterprise organizations better patch their software will be "kicking off soon," according to a Wednesday Microsoft announcement.
10/09/2019
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In-Depth
How many of these data security offenses is your organization guilty of, and how can you correct them? Play the Data Breach Game and find out.
10/09/2019
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Pivotal Software and Microsoft introduced a private preview of Azure Spring Cloud on Tuesday.
10/09/2019
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October is not looking like it's a too frightful of a patch month, with 60 software vulnerabilities getting addressed in Microsoft's "update Tuesday" security release.
10/08/2019
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Microsoft recently updated its SharePoint Server migration tool and issued an updated diagnostic tool for assessing SharePoint Server 2019 and SharePoint Server 2016 environments.
10/07/2019
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
The cloud has long been touted as the future of computing. But for some organizations, cloud computing has only added more complexity and not enough cost-savings.
10/07/2019
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Microsoft's OneDrive cloud-based storage service for consumers now has a new security feature for file storage, Microsoft announced last week.
10/04/2019
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
Microsoft's "automatic virtual machine activation" feature lets you spin up a short-lived VM without wasting a license key. Here's how to use it.
10/03/2019
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Microsoft showcased its coming Surface PC and device innovations during a New York City presentation.
10/02/2019
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Microsoft announced on Tuesday that its Extended Security Updates program for Windows 7 Service Pack 1 users won't be restricted to organizations that made their Windows purchases through its volume licensing offerings.
10/01/2019
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
While useful in plenty of ways, Microsoft's task-management service doesn't have a feature to manage repeating tasks. The solution? Create a "template plan."
10/01/2019
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Microsoft Defender Advanced Threat Protection's endpoint detection and response capability is now at "general availability" commercial-release status for users of Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1.
09/30/2019
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Microsoft on Monday announced the worldwide "general availability" of its new Windows Virtual Desktop service.
09/30/2019
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Microsoft recently elaborated on how its machine learning algorithms help ensure that Windows 10 feature upgrades will be successful.
09/27/2019
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
Microsoft is expected to unveil new Surface hardware next week, but unless a standalone Surface Studio monitor is one of them, it might be time to consider some of the other (cheaper) options from its OEM partners.
09/27/2019
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IT spending likely will increase in 2020 because of a need to carry out infrastructure upgrades and address security concerns, according to a Spiceworks study published this week.
09/26/2019
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There's been a slight speedbump in the steady drive by hyperscale service providers toward ever more compute, storage and networking gear in their datacenters.
09/26/2019
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Microsoft on Tuesday announced that it's possible for Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) users to get Windows 10 feature update previews by making a few settings changes.
09/25/2019
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
Here's how you can use Hyper-V's replica infrastructure to minimize disruptions caused by the patch management process.
09/25/2019
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Azure Sentinel, Microsoft's cloud-based security information and event management (SIEM) solution, has reached the "general availability" release stage.
09/24/2019
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Microsoft on Monday released two "out-of-band" security advisories, one for its Internet Explorer (IE) browsers and another regarding its Microsoft Defender antimalware solution.
09/23/2019
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Microsoft marked an important new direction for .NET developers on Monday with the general availability (GA) of .NET Core 3.0.
09/23/2019
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Microsoft upped the stakes in its effort to end "Basic Authentication" with the Exchange Online e-mail service.
09/23/2019
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
It's getting harder to buy standalone Office licenses from Microsoft. Will a purely subscription-based Office model be worth it for users, or are there better alternatives in the market?
09/23/2019
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Microsoft recently announced a bunch of tooling updates for organizations using Office 365 and Azure solutions.
09/20/2019
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At OpenWorld this week, CEO Larry Ellison described Oracle's plan to open an average of one region every 23 days over the next 15 months.
09/20/2019
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
The earliest gaming consoles provided a tidy solution to the problem of PC hardware compatibility. Now, Brien argues, DaaS is doing the same thing.
09/20/2019
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Microsoft on Tuesday announced a preview of Azure Private Link, an option for keeping Azure service connections off the public Internet.
09/18/2019
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
How much server memory is enough, and for how long? Brien works through the math as part of his ongoing hardware refresh.
09/18/2019
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Microsoft this month described benefits changes coming next year to its Software Assurance program for organizations, with a shift more toward its FastTrack program for training.
09/17/2019
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Microsoft on Monday announced it had extended Exchange Server 2010's end-of-support date by about 10 months.
09/16/2019
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Microsoft's portfolio of PaaS databases has grown way beyond Azure SQL. Here are its most important cloud-based database services, and exactly how each one works differently from the other.
09/16/2019
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It's always interesting when Microsoft acknowledges the use of a major third-party product for internal purposes in its Fortune 100-class operations.
09/16/2019
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Kirill Tatarinov, former president and CEO of Citrix and a longtime senior executive at Microsoft, is taking on a senior executive role at data protection specialist Acronis.
09/16/2019
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Microsoft's latest Windows 10 preview release for testers (build 18980), announced on Wednesday, includes support for version 2 of the Windows Subsystem for Linux, plus ARM64 device support for WSL 2.
09/13/2019
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The Microsoft Defender Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) Evaluation Lab is now ready for use by organizations.
09/12/2019
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In a September interview, SharePoint expert Asif Rehmani described how users, developers and organizations are dealing with SharePoint Online's so-called "modern" innovations.
09/12/2019
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Microsoft updated an August security advisory this week to urge organizations using the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol in supported Windows systems to implement some configuration changes manually.
09/11/2019
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Microsoft released security patches for multiple vulnerabilities in Windows and various applications in its September "update Tuesday" release.
09/10/2019
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Microsoft is working with satellite partner companies to extend Azure ExpressRoute's private Internet connections to organizations with operations in isolated regions.
09/10/2019
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
Microsoft has evolved Flow into a very capable workflow automation platform. The catch is that if you want to use Flow to its fullest potential, you'll need to pay a little extra.
09/10/2019
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Datacenter service providers and chipset manufacturers must learn to adapt to the increased data traffic that 5G will generate, according to a new study.
09/10/2019
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Microsoft announced on Friday that its Windows Analytics suite of Windows 10 upgrade utilities will be retiring on Jan. 31, 2020, with Desktop Analytics taking its place.
09/09/2019
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The founder of the company that created Wunderlist took to Twitter to try to get Microsoft to sell him back the popular task management app.
09/09/2019
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Microsoft this week described even more SharePoint Online features that are expected to arrive soon for Office 365 tenants opting to get "targeted release" updates.
09/06/2019