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London-based IT Lab Group announced late last month that it's now an authorized partner for the Microsoft Managed Desktop service.
08/08/2019
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Intel and Lenovo announced a multiyear collaboration agreement this week, building on their longstanding partnership in the datacenter.
08/07/2019
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It's not 2008 anymore. Joey details the ins and outs of upgrading these aging Microsoft servers, including licensing changes, support options and potential pitfalls.
08/07/2019
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In an effort to get more on-premises data warehouses onto its Azure cloud, Microsoft has launched a migration initiative in partnership with Informatica.
08/06/2019
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Concerns about ethics and security aside, spending around machine learning is poised to grow sharply over the next five years.
08/06/2019
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In another example of "everything old is new again," you can now recapture that old-school Microsoft feeling without even a single floppy disk drive.
08/05/2019
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Microsoft has announced a preview of a new service that gives organizations access to unshared or "dedicated" Azure hardware infrastructure for hosting their workloads on Azure virtual machines.
08/01/2019
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The final part of Brien's Hyper-V upgrade involves using a 10GbE connection for replication traffic -- without having access to enterprise-class hardware.
08/01/2019
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Microsoft recently published a new version of its service-level agreement (SLA) for Azure SQL Database, adding uptime perks for organizations that use the "Business Critical" tier.
08/01/2019
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Microsoft is planning to end its Skype for Business Online service on July 31, 2021, encouraging customers to use the Microsoft Teams service instead.
07/30/2019
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The first half of Brien's project to replace his outdated Hyper-V servers took nearly 10 days and multiple replication failures. Here's what went wrong and how he fixed it.
07/30/2019
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Microsoft on Monday announced the acquisition of BlueTalon, a provider of data governance and compliance solutions.
07/29/2019
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Microsoft this week announced the availability of a service availability notifications preview for some Power BI subscribers, as well as coming general Power BI user experience changes.
07/25/2019
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Microsoft on Wednesday "accidentally released" Windows 10 build 18947 to a "limited number of Windows Insiders."
07/25/2019
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In a move that will be well-received by many users, Microsoft has lifted some key restrictions on how companies can brand their Office 365 environments.
07/25/2019
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In a linguistic simplification of sorts, Microsoft has jettisoned the object of the preposition, as well as the preposition itself and even the article of the preposition, from its formerly known "Office on the Web" product branding.
07/24/2019
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Now in the next phase of expansion, the Equinix ECX Fabric service is bringing secure datacenter cloud connections to even more businesses around the world.
07/24/2019
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Microsoft announced on Tuesday that the Azure Active Directory (AD) Application Proxy service now works with applications that use the Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) 2.0 for user authentications.
07/23/2019
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The new Sandbox feature in Windows 10 lets organizations run potentially risky executables in isolation, without having to set up a virtual machine.
07/23/2019
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Microsoft plans to ease the Office 365 app installation experience for end users, starting as early as next month, for organizations using some monthly subscription plans, according to a Monday announcement.
07/22/2019
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A $1 billion investment from Microsoft promises to turbocharge the efforts of research outfit OpenAI around artificial general intelligence (AGI).
07/22/2019
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Remote Desktop Protocol is an easy-to-find and popular target for remote attackers, according to a recent study conducted by Sophos.
07/19/2019
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Microsoft has enabled its Azure Monitor for Containers management product to get data from the open source Prometheus monitoring solution.
07/18/2019
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Microsoft earned $33.72 billion in revenues for its fiscal fourth quarter, a 12% gain, as well as earnings per share of $1.37.
07/18/2019
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Microsoft on Thursday announced a "private preview" of a new groups expiration behavior that relies on user activity as a safeguard against inadvertent group deletion.
07/18/2019
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For power users of Microsoft's various Office services, life just got a little bit easier.
07/18/2019
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Microsoft on Tuesday outlined what's to come with its Chromium-based Microsoft Edge browser, particularly for business and enterprise users.
07/17/2019
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Microsoft and AT&T announced the establishment of a Microsoft 365 business deal, plus a "multiyear" strategic alliance centered on the use of 5G wireless networks to support edge computing and AI.
07/17/2019
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Windows 10 version 1903 will be arriving soon for many of those individuals and organizations not presently using it.
07/16/2019
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Now that he's had a few months to test drive Microsoft's new browser, Brien shares his thoughts on what makes Edge tick.
07/16/2019
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Microsoft on Monday announced a preview of Proximity Placement Groups, which add assurances that networking latencies won't be an issue for organizations managing complex applications across Azure infrastructure.
07/15/2019
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IT pros using Microsoft Intune to manage devices got some polished tools from Microsoft this week.
07/12/2019
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Organizations wanting a future without passwords will likely face some hurdles getting there, Microsoft admitted in an announcement this week.
07/12/2019
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Microsoft Teams will be getting a few improvements, plus it now has more than "13 million daily active users," according to a Thursday Microsoft announcement.
07/11/2019
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Of the many security improvements Microsoft made to the latest Windows 10 release, the ability to wall-off the Edge browser against malware attacks is one of the most critical.
07/11/2019
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Microsoft on Wednesday announced the availability of a public preview of Azure Active Directory's FIDO2 support, which enables user authentications without passwords.
07/10/2019
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Datacenter managers already have a tough time convincing the top brass to embrace cloud. Last week's high-profile service failures at Google, Facebook and Apple haven't helped.
07/10/2019
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Microsoft on Tuesday released its July security patch bundle, which addresses about 77 common vulnerabilities and exposures across various Microsoft products.
07/09/2019
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Microsoft issued some reminders this week that July 9, 2019, is the last day of patch support for SQL Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008 R2.
07/09/2019
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ServiceNow and Microsoft on Tuesday extended their strategic partnership in a move designed to appeal to governments and enterprises in highly regulated industries.
07/09/2019
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Microsoft has reversed an earlier position and now plans to support the use of Office 365 ProPlus on Windows Server 2019, even for organizations using it in virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) scenarios.
07/09/2019
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Microsoft's newest Office 365 addition seems like a solid business app, but does it bring any functionality that isn't already scattered throughout the rest of the suite?
07/09/2019
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Microsoft announced on Monday that a preview of its Desktop Analytics service is now available for testing.
07/08/2019
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Microsoft broke new ground in scalability when it launched Azure SQL Database Hyperscale. Here's what it took to make Microsoft's hyperscale vision work with the existing Azure infrastructure.
07/03/2019
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About 10 years ago, a worm dubbed Conficker began constructing a botnet that ran away to over 10 million Windows computers.
07/01/2019
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Few things are more frustrating that being interrupted by an unwanted reboot. Here's how to make Microsoft's Windows 10 updates work around your schedule.
07/01/2019
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Microsoft plans to add Kaizala Pro capabilities into Microsoft Teams over the next 12 to 18 months, according to a Thursday announcement.
06/28/2019
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Microsoft plans to activate its Teams collaboration app for organizations with existing Office 365 Business or Office 365 ProPlus subscriptions starting as early as July 9.
06/28/2019
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Windows Server has a built-in iSCSI initiator that it can use to connect to an iSCSI target. Before it can do so, however, you'll need to enable and configure the initiator. Here's how.
06/28/2019
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The Microsoft Excel spreadsheet program, in combination with its Power Query data-fetching component, can be leveraged in so-called "Dynamic Data Exchange" (DDE) types of attacks.
06/27/2019