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The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) announced on Monday that the Web Authentication (WebAuthn) specification is now considered to be an official W3C standard, which likely will accelerate passwordless authentications for Web transactions.
03/04/2019
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
It can be tempting to only back up the Office 365 applications that you actually use and leave the rest to chance. But as Brien explains, that approach carries a huge risk.
03/04/2019
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Microsoft plans to start selling its Windows 7 Extended Security Updates plan to organizations on April 1, 2019, according to a Friday announcement.
03/01/2019
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
The next release of Microsoft's mixed-reality headset corrects some major flaws in its predecessor and opens new possibilities for its practical use.
03/01/2019
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Just days before the 2019 RSA Conference, Microsoft on Thursday announced the preview releases of two new cloud-based security services: Azure Sentinel and Threat Experts.
02/28/2019
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Microsoft announced that it has a Windows Server IoT 2019 product, among other details, during the 2019 Embedded World conference in Nuremberg, Germany.
02/27/2019
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A partnership is in the works between Microsoft and VMware to make it much easier for enterprise customers to move VMware workloads into the Azure public cloud, according to a published report.
02/27/2019
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With $80 million in funding raised, the startup is bent on hastening the death of the datacenter hard drive.
02/27/2019
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Microsoft plans to deliver new page enhancements for SharePoint Online users by the end of February.
02/26/2019
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Microsoft demonstrated its HoloLens 2 headset using a new Azure Kinect camera sensor, while also showcasing various partner efforts using mixed-reality technologies, in a Sunday Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2019 Barcelona keynote talk.
02/25/2019
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
Metadata can say a lot about a given document -- as well as the document's creator. Here's how to manage what types metadata appear in your Office documents to protect your security while still giving useful information.
02/25/2019
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The Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection service can now be used to help address security issues with Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 clients.
02/22/2019
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Microsoft described how to modernize so-called "classic" alert rules to work with the new Azure Monitor service in a Thursday Azure announcement.
02/22/2019
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Microsoft issued Security Advisory ADV190005 on Wednesday concerning a potential HTTP/2 settings issue for users of Internet Information Services (IIS) on Windows Server.
02/21/2019
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
Earlier, Brien walked through the steps of preparing a physical Windows Server 2016 machine for a storage refresh. Now, he shows how to complete the process, all the way to OS restoration.
02/21/2019
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Microsoft is delivering a new Office app for Windows 10 consumer and business users over the new few weeks, according to a Wednesday announcement.
02/20/2019
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Microsoft gave notice this week that .NET Core 1.0 and 1.1 will fall out of support on June 27, 2019.
02/20/2019
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Microsoft on Friday described its 2019 timeline for when it will start distrusting Secure Hash Algorithm-1 (SHA-1) in supported Windows systems, as well as in the Windows Server Update Services 3.0 Service Pack 2 management product.
02/19/2019
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
To spruce up some aging lab hardware, Brien decided to make the jump to all-flash storage. Here's a walk-through of the first half of the process.
02/19/2019
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Tech giants Google, Apple and others are expanding their datacenter footprints at a rapid rate, and it's pushing the industry to find better ways to power all that infrastructure.
02/19/2019
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This week, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) described a high-risk security vulnerability (CVE-2019-5736) for organizations using containers that could lead to compromised host systems.
02/15/2019
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Microsoft on Friday issued an advisory for Windows 10 version 1809 users about possible Visual Studio crashes.
02/15/2019
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
Microsoft typically gives users a blank canvas to compose new e-mails in Outlook. In some corporate environments, however, a blank canvas isn't a good thing.
02/15/2019
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Microsoft plans to slightly alter its Windows servicing lingo and management behavior with its next Windows 10 operating system feature update release, coming this spring.
02/14/2019
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Microsoft's February "update Tuesday" release was notable for delivering major security updates and architectural changes to all supported Exchange Server products, along with a "zero-day" IE patch.
02/13/2019
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
You know that SCVMM libraries can store ISO files, virtual hard disks and various types of templates in a single location for use on all of your managed hosts. But what about unmanaged hosts?
02/13/2019
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Microsoft took the rare step of announcing the release of Exchange Server quarterly updates that will include "critical security" fixes, while also changing the architectures of all supported Exchange Server products.
02/12/2019
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Microsoft's MSIX packaging format has new added support for Windows 10 versions 1803 and 1709, but the support has some limitations.
02/11/2019
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Microsoft on Monday touted its Azure Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) service as being capable of alerting organizations when they are subject to NT LAN Manager (NTLM) relay attacks.
02/11/2019
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
Buggy patches are all but inevitable -- especially, it seems, if they're from Microsoft. Maybe the old wait-and-see approach to Office patching is worth a second look.
02/11/2019
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Microsoft has been adding to its Azure Active Directory capabilities in recent weeks.
02/08/2019
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
If you're new to Hyper-V, here are some pointers that can save you a lot of grief.
02/08/2019
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Microsoft on Monday issued Security Advisory ADV190007 concerning an elevation-of-privilege vulnerability that's present in most Exchange Server versions.
02/07/2019
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Microsoft on Wednesday made the case that organizations shouldn't use Internet Explorer as their default browser for every activity.
02/07/2019
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Organizations using Microsoft's tools to manage Windows updates could be missing out on early fixes to problems because of the way Microsoft classifies its updates.
02/06/2019
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From the beginning, Microsoft's vision for the Azure Stack involved situations where you're getting your hands dirty.
02/06/2019
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
While functions are typically used for computational purposes, they can also be used to change a spreadsheet's overall look. Here's an example using Excel's MOD function.
02/06/2019
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The U.S. National Security Agency issued updated guidance late last month on the various speculative execution side-channel flaws that open up all systems using modern processors to potential attacks.
02/05/2019
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IT is moving toward the cloud and virtualization, but don't write off hardware -- especially for highly critical systems. Here's a look at the newest generation of database hardware and how it impacts performance.
02/05/2019
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Microsoft on Monday announced two new partner deals, plus one product acquisition.
02/04/2019
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
It goes without saying that data should be backed up, but what about the OS? The short answer is, it depends.
02/04/2019
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Microsoft announced a number of security and compliance improvements that mostly apply to users of its Microsoft 365-licensed products.
02/01/2019
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
It may be the buzziest tech trend of the moment, but machine learning is no easy matter. Before you jump into writing machine learning algorithms, here are the basics you need to start a project.
02/01/2019
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The event for organizations and IT pros known as "Domain Name System Flag Day" will kick off on Friday, Feb. 1, 2019.
01/31/2019
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Microsoft reported second quarter revenues on Wednesday that slightly missed financial analysts' targets, but that reflected double-digit growth in strategic business units.
01/30/2019
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Cisco acknowledged vulnerabilities in two of its small business router products last week that could lead to information disclosures.
01/30/2019
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The U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team this week noted that Exchange Server versions from Exchange Server 2013 on up have a vulnerability that could permit the impersonation of any user, leading to "control of an affected system."
01/30/2019
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
Brien walks you through how to make completely custom workflows to suit out-of-the-ordinary situations.
01/30/2019
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Microsoft plans to change the default Office 365 document-saving behavior and have it default to OneDrive and OneDrive for Business folder locations, starting as early as next month.
01/29/2019
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Internet Explorer 10 will fall out of support next year for users of Windows Server 2012 and Windows Embedded 8 Standard, Microsoft noted in a Monday announcement.
01/29/2019