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Microsoft published a notice on Wednesday that System Center Configuration Manager 2007 (SCCM) and Forefront Endpoint Protection 2010 (FEP) both will fall out of support on July 9, 2019.
04/11/2019
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Google announced on Wednesday that it's making it easier for organizations with Windows operating systems and Microsoft applications to move them onto its Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
04/10/2019
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It turns out that Microsoft is counting on customers to end up paying more for Azure than they may have planned to.
04/10/2019
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Microsoft announced the release of its April security patches on Tuesday, addressing 74 unique vulnerabilities.
04/09/2019
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Microsoft on Monday announced that early versions of its new Chromium-based Microsoft Edge browser for Windows 10 are now available for testing as part of the Microsoft Edge Insider testing program.
04/08/2019
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
A recently added "tamper protection" feature finally corrects an obvious security gap in Microsoft's anti-malware solution.
04/08/2019
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Microsoft on Friday announced plans to replace Windows PowerShell with its newest Core product, which will be called "PowerShell 7."
04/05/2019
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
Brien revisits the LinkedIn-powered Resume Assistant in Word, which has only gotten more intuitive and useful over the past year.
04/05/2019
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The newest Windows 10 feature update, version 1903, is expected to arrive next month, but Microsoft is planning to give users greater control over when it arrives.
04/04/2019
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Microsoft this week announced a couple of changes coming to organizations that use its Exchange Online e-mail service.
04/03/2019
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It's not enough to have a backup and recovery plan. Today's IT pros need to practice salesmanship and PR savvy to get through a disaster.
04/03/2019
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Microsoft's Azure Active Directory Password Protection feature is now deemed ready for deployment by organizations, having reached "general availability" status, according to Microsoft's announcement on Tuesday.
04/02/2019
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Visual Studio 2019 and Visual Studio 2019 for Mac both hit the "general availability" stage on Tuesday, introducing new functionality for developers.
04/02/2019
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
Microsoft's move to build Edge on Chromium raises a big question: With Firefox and Chrome dominating the browser market, why does it still matter what Microsoft does?
04/01/2019
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Microsoft this week announced release milestones for some of its management, security and compliance tools.
03/29/2019
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A new survey finds a dangerous gap between organizations' perceptions and actions when it comes to Office 365 compliance and security.
03/29/2019
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
The trickiest thing about making a stretched cluster work with Hyper-V is getting the underlying storage to work properly.
03/29/2019
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Microsoft has declared that Windows 10 version 1809 was "designated for broad deployment."
03/28/2019
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A "live events" video broadcasting feature is now at the "general availability" stage for Office 365 users, Microsoft announced this week.
03/27/2019
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Intel's launch of the CXL Consortium draws fresh battle lines in the interconnect wars.
03/27/2019
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Microsoft on Tuesday announced the general availability of Azure Data Box Edge and Azure Data Box Gateway.
03/26/2019
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Microsoft on Tuesday announced a new product in its Azure Stack line that adds hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) capabilities to its "Azure in a box" solution.
03/26/2019
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Software security firm Kaspersky Lab announced that Asus computer users were targeted last year with malware via Asus' update utility in a so-called "supply-chain attack."
03/25/2019
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
When mysterious changes to the Hyper-V virtual switch caused all of his virtual machines to lose connectivity, Brien was left puzzling over the source of the problem and the workaround.
03/25/2019
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Microsoft this week announced a bunch of security product enhancements.
03/22/2019
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Microsoft on Thursday announced that its Windows Virtual Desktop service is now available as a public preview.
03/21/2019
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The GPU maker has unveiled the CUDA-X AI, its latest technology to advance artificial intelligence in the datacenter.
03/20/2019
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Microsoft Teams is now a 2-year-old product, but it's been getting rapid enhancements, including new ones announced this week.
03/20/2019
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Microsoft on Monday announced that Azure Backup for SQL Server had reached "general availability" status, meaning it's deemed ready for production-environment use.
03/19/2019
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Microsoft is planning to activate "Insights for MyAnalytics" sometime late this month for most Office 365 users, but the ability of organizations to manage this feature won't be available until possibly mid-May.
03/18/2019
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One of the biggest deadlines in the history of IT is only 300 days away.
03/18/2019
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Microsoft this week announced that SharePoint Framework 1.8 had reached "general availability" status, although some features are still at the preview stage.
03/15/2019
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
Manual account creation can be tedious, time-consuming and prone to human error, especially if you have more than a handful of Office 365 users to set up. Brien shows you a better way.
03/15/2019
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System Center 2019 has now reached the "general availability" product stage, Microsoft indicated in a Thursday update.
03/14/2019
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Microsoft plans to roll out new capabilities for SharePoint Online users this month that will add greater control over how News articles appear in SharePoint sites, according to a Wednesday announcement.
03/13/2019
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Microsoft plans to issue regular notices starting next month that will inform Windows 7 Service Pack 1 (SP1) users that the operating system will reach its end-of-support phase on Jan. 14, 2020.
03/13/2019
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Microsoft released security patches on "update Tuesday" to address 64 common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVEs), which were typically associated with products like Windows, Office services and Microsoft's browsers.
03/12/2019
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Microsoft demonstrated how to create a new Teams Site "modern" page using an existing "classic" SharePoint page in a demo presentation late last month.
03/12/2019
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Microsoft stopped using its System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) product to address operations support for its own applications back in July, the company noted last week.
03/11/2019
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
It's unlikely that machines will ever perfectly mimic a human brain, but next-generation computers could come very close. Here are some educated guesses as to what the future of computing could look like.
03/11/2019
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Microsoft announced on Friday that its new naming policy for Office 365 Groups has reached "general availability" status.
03/08/2019
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Google on Thursday described two "zero-day" vulnerabilities affecting both the Google Chrome browser and Windows 7 systems that are being actively used in targeted attacks.
03/08/2019
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
In the early days of Windows, the pagefile helped make up for shortages in physical memory. But should you be using a pagefile on a virtual machine?
03/08/2019
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System Center 2019 will reach "general availability" status sometime this month, Microsoft announced on Thursday.
03/07/2019
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Most organizations admitted to not being compliant with the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) after it took effect last year, according to 2018 survey results from Forrester.
03/07/2019
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Microsoft's drive to put Azure SQL Data Warehouse on more equal footing with SQL Server is finally paying off.
03/07/2019
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Microsoft this week introduced a "Guardian Modules" concept, where Azure Sphere microcontroller units can be used to enable secure connections for older Internet of Things (IoT) devices.
03/06/2019
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
With Office 365 emerging as a big target for today's hackers, it's important to know how your organization's security measures up.
03/06/2019
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Microsoft announced the release of Azure DevOps Server 2019 on Tuesday.
03/05/2019
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Microsoft added a few improvements to Azure Firewall, its firewall-as-a-service security offering for organizations using Azure virtual machines.
03/04/2019