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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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News
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
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SQL Server guru Denny Cherry uses "horrible" stories about SQL Server disasters in a positive way: to teach others what not to do -- and what to do in case they do things they shouldn't have done.
09/05/2019
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
Brien shows how to extend the scope of Windows Admin Center's management capabilities to the other servers on your network.
09/05/2019
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News
Microsoft on Wednesday announced a new, single "extended support" date for most of the tools in the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack.
09/04/2019
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Microsoft on Wednesday announced the acquisition of partner company Movere.
09/04/2019
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Microsoft has slightly altered its Flash retirement plans for its older supported browsers.
09/03/2019
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
One of the most anticipated features in Windows Server 2019 doesn't actually ship with Windows Server 2019. Brien shows you how to access and set up the Windows Admin Center.
09/03/2019
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Microsoft has agreed to the addition of its Extended File Allocation Table (exFAT) technology to the Linux kernel, according to a Wednesday announcement.
08/30/2019
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News
Google's Managed Service for Microsoft Active Directory offering is now at the beta-test release stage, according to a Thursday company announcement.
08/29/2019
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
Here's how to streamline your PowerShell query process to avoid returning a huge list of applications.
08/29/2019
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News
The VMware Workstation product, used to host virtual machines on client devices, is getting support for Windows Hypervisor, which will unlock the use of various Microsoft technologies that are dependent on Hyper-V.
08/28/2019
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News
Google, in conjunction with Dell, announced this week that "the first Chromebook Enterprise devices" had arrived.
08/28/2019
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
The Control Panel has long been Microsoft's workhorse for deleting unwanted apps. But while this method works fine most of the time, it's not exactly scalable.
08/27/2019
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News
Microsoft recently announced a few SharePoint Online feature improvements for end users.
08/26/2019
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During his Monday keynote at VMworld 2019 in San Francisco, VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger provided a roadmap update for his company's partnership with Microsoft.
08/26/2019
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Microsoft announced a number of Azure Active Directory enhancements this month.
08/23/2019
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
As Skype for Business slowly gets phased out and Slack's enterprise dominance becomes less of a sure thing, the time is right for Microsoft to focus its marketing energies on its upstart collaboration tool.
08/23/2019
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Microsoft announced on Wednesday that the PowerShell 7 Preview 3 scripting solution is now available.
08/22/2019
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Microsoft on Wednesday announced the release of SQL Server 2019 release candidate (RC).
08/22/2019
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A new Confidential Computing Consortium was announced on Wednesday by the Linux Foundation to boost the security of processed data.
08/21/2019
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
Brien walks you through the steps of setting up an application to use the Microsoft Graph API.
08/21/2019
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News
Microsoft Edge Insider Program participants now have access to the Beta Channel release of Microsoft's Chromium-based Edge Web browser on the Windows and Mac platforms.
08/20/2019
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If three Florida municipalities getting hit by ransomware earlier this month sounded bad, here's a Texas-sized problem for you.
08/20/2019
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Microsoft has set aside time to answer questions about its emerging Windows Virtual Desktop service on Wednesday of next week, according to an announcement.
08/19/2019
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AMD's high-profile EPYC 7002 launch has datacenter analysts wondering if the end of Intel's long reign is nigh.
08/19/2019
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News
In a bid to support its "continued contributions to open source while driving increased performance for Java workloads on Azure," Microsoft on Monday announced its acquisition of jClarity.
08/19/2019
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
Billed by Microsoft as an all-encompassing API, the Microsoft Graph plays a critical role in how developers access Microsoft's various cloud resources.
08/19/2019
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News
Microsoft warned this week in a Twitter post that its August security updates won't install for users of Windows 7 Service Pack 1 or Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 if those operating system lack certain March updates.
08/16/2019
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News
A Microsoft Teams Rooms update now lets organizations use images of physical whiteboards as a dynamic space for videoconferencing communications, although it's at the preview stage and may require having a new camera.
08/16/2019
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
What started out as a handy shortcut to your most-used Windows 10 apps has morphed into another way for Microsoft and developers to pepper you with ads.
08/16/2019
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Microsoft announced on Thursday that it now offers the Azure Ultra Disk solid-state drive (SSD) storage service commercially, or at the "general availability" stage, in a few Azure regions.
08/15/2019
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In-Depth
To know containers is to know Kubernetes, the gold standard for container orchestration and deployment. Here's an explainer for how Kubernetes works and what makes it tick.
08/14/2019
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Microsoft's August security updates address about 93 common vulnerabilities and exposures, several of which are associated with Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP).
08/13/2019
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Microsoft indicated recently that "BlueKeep" exploit code for Windows systems is now "widely available" for use by attackers.
08/12/2019
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In-Depth
What exactly is a container and what makes it different -- and in some cases better -- than a virtual machine? To answer this question, Joey explains why we ever needed containers in the first place.
08/12/2019
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
Exactly where does Microsoft cap the amount of OneDrive storage space you can give each user? As Brien explains, it depends.
08/09/2019
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To entice businesses still using Windows Server 2008 into migrating to its cloud, Microsoft is offering a big carrot: Extended Security Updates (ESU) plans at no cost.
08/08/2019