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Microsoft added a preview feature to its Azure Active Directory Business to Business (B2B) service that makes it easier for business partners to gain access to an organization's network resources.
01/28/2019
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
A quick primer on one of the most useful tools in PowerShell scripting.
01/28/2019
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News
Apple now offers Microsoft's Office 365 for Mac productivity suite from the Mac App Store.
01/25/2019
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Microsoft announced a subtle change to its .NET Framework patch labeling earlier this week that's notable for IT pros handling the monthly patching of Windows 10 and Windows Server 2019 environments.
01/25/2019
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Microsoft announced on Thursday that it bought San Francisco-based Citus Data, a provider of an extension that scales out the open source PostgreSQL relational database management system in datacenters.
01/24/2019
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
Now that you know how to make SteamVR work with Microsoft's Mixed Reality environment, it's time to actually run apps that are designed for the Oculus Rift.
01/24/2019
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Microsoft on Wednesday announced the rebranding of its Skype Room Systems product line of partner-built videoconferencing and meeting room devices, which are now called "Microsoft Teams Rooms."
01/23/2019
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Amid all the flash of this month's Consumer Electronics Show (CES), there was an unlikely datacenter announcement: Intel is now shipping its new Xeon Scalable CPU.
01/23/2019
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Microsoft released Azure DevOps Server 2019 Release Candidate 2 (RC2), according to a Tuesday announcement.
01/22/2019
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IDC this month published findings on revenues from cloud IT infrastructure spending in the third quarter of 2018, based on server, storage and Ethernet switch sales.
01/22/2019
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
A lack of apps has been the biggest thorn in the side of Microsoft's mixed reality efforts. One way to get around it is to use apps that were designed for Oculus Rift instead.
01/22/2019
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Microsoft will end support for the Windows 10 Mobile operating system on Dec. 10, 2019, according to an announcement.
01/18/2019
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
Brien comes across a handy, but imperfect, feature in Outlook that lets you annotate specific e-mails. Its provenance is something of a mystery, though.
01/18/2019
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Microsoft on Wednesday once more resumed its general rollout of the Windows 10 version 1809 upgrade, also known as the "October 2018 Update."
01/17/2019
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Microsoft gave assurances this week that organizations adopting Windows 10 likely won't face application compatibility issues.
01/16/2019
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Microsoft plans to alter some of the tenant-level blocking capabilities that may have been set up by organizations and deliver its so-called "modern" user interface (UI) to Lists and Libraries for SharePoint Online users, starting in April.
01/16/2019
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
Despite its weird name, splatting can be a really handy technique if you create a lot of PowerShell scripts.
01/16/2019
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Microsoft will have a new approach for organizations buying Azure services called the "Microsoft Customer Agreement," which will be available for some customers starting as early as this March.
01/15/2019
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News
January 14 marks a one-year period before the end of support for Windows 7.
01/14/2019
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In-Depth
Microsoft's PC partners are increasingly focused on polishing existing features to target freelancers, remote workers and creatives.
01/14/2019
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Microsoft wants about 7GB of your PC's storage space to keep Windows 10 up to date and reliable.
01/11/2019
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
Your screen doesn't have to be PowerShell's only output device. As Brien shows, the Out verb lets you redirect PowerShell's output in a variety of useful ways.
01/11/2019
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Windows 7 was a notable victim of this month's "update Tuesday" security patch releases by Microsoft, according to various accounts.
01/10/2019
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Microsoft this week introduced a preview of a new Office Client Policy Service for organizations using the Office 365 ProPlus productivity suite.
01/09/2019
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Microsoft Teams will be getting a few enhancements for so-called "firstline" workers, the company announced on Wednesday.
01/09/2019
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
Now that you've cleared all the system requirements, the next step is to install SCVMM version 1801 and then update from there. Brien shows you how.
01/09/2019
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Microsoft offered a relatively mild "update Tuesday" bundle of security fixes in its January release this month.
01/08/2019
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Microsoft is making a few notable changes this year for Office 365 business subscribers, but they could be flying somewhat under the radar screens of IT pros.
01/08/2019
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Microsoft has improved its free SharePoint Migration Tool, which is used to shift files from SharePoint Server 2013 to SharePoint Online and OneDrive.
01/07/2019
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The end of the great Windows migration is in sight.
01/07/2019
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
Brien walks you through the migration process so you can start benefiting from the newest SCVMM features. The first step: Get your system in line with the latest version's prerequisites. And there are plenty.
01/07/2019
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News
Organizations using the Exchange Online e-mail messaging service now are getting the ability to use session ID information in Exchange Online audit logs to better detect attacks.
01/04/2019
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If you're a DBA, now is the time to re-evaluate your current database management habits, as well as figure out how to take your career as a database professional to the next level.
01/04/2019
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Microsoft recently described a bunch of SharePoint Online improvements, some of which may be starting to arrive for Office 365 subscribers.
01/03/2019
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Two new Microsoft 365 service bundles will be available next month, with one focused on security and the other on compliance.
01/02/2019
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
From the common-sense to the outlandish, here are the big tech industry moves that Brien is betting on for the new year.
01/02/2019
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Microsoft product milestones and updates dominated our most popular news articles of the year.
12/20/2018
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Here are the year's most popular explainers and how-to columns -- along with some plain, old "Why did Microsoft do that?" musings thrown in.
12/18/2018
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
From guessing the fate of Windows 10 S to predicting Microsoft's next big move with Linux, Brien's predictions from a year ago were on the mark more than they weren't.
12/17/2018
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Microsoft expects organizations using its Delivery Optimization peer-to-peer update scheme will optimally see 60 percent to 70 percent improvements in terms of network bandwidth use.
12/14/2018
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
Hyper-V usually makes it easy to configure virtual network adapters within VMs. That is, until you need to create a VM containing multiple virtual NICs.
12/14/2018
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Microsoft this week highlighted some emerging efforts to improve both the scalability and governance of the open source Kubernetes container orchestration service.
12/13/2018
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Microsoft gave notice earlier this month that it will be ending its Azure Container Service on Jan. 31, 2020.
12/12/2018
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Microsoft released a new tool, Surface Diagnostic Toolkit for Business, earlier this month, providing a means for IT pros to find and troubleshoot problems on Microsoft Surface devices.
12/12/2018
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In case you hadn't noticed, server sales are booming.
12/12/2018
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
While it's possible to give outside users access to certain content in your organization's Office 365 environment, the process of setting them up requires a few extra steps.
12/12/2018
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News
Microsoft announced on Tuesday that the OpenSSH solution used for remote management is now a supported "Features on Demand" addition in both Windows 10 version 1809 and Windows Server 2019.
12/11/2018
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Microsoft ended the patch year on Tuesday with a whimper of sorts, releasing an estimated 39 security fixes in its December bundle plus one security advisory, according to a count by Trend Micro's Zero Day Initiative.
12/11/2018
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Microsoft isn't exactly killing off its EdgeHTML rendering engine, even after declaring plans to use Chromium open source technologies in its Edge browser.
12/10/2018
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Microsoft offered yet another explanation of its monthly Windows update process as part of its transparency-in-communications blog series.
12/10/2018