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Microsoft Teams is riding the Office 365 rocket to market share among collaborative chat applications, a new survey suggests.
12/10/2018
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
For starters, the cloud-based CRM/ERP software has some surprising integrations with PowerApps, Microsoft's low-code developer environment.
12/10/2018
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News
Microsoft has started a new Microsoft 365 Insider Program for organizations to test its software, but the program's name and scope could be changing.
12/07/2018
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
Don't be the IT pro who spends way too many hours each day keeping their users secure only to neglect their own home networks. Brien describes the two steps he took to avoid this trap.
12/07/2018
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Microsoft plans to align its Microsoft Edge browser production efforts with the open source Chromium Web platform for the desktop version of the browser, the company announced on Thursday.
12/06/2018
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For the emerging area of Internet of Things (IoT), developers face a confusing array of choices in a few different areas within Microsoft's catalog of Azure services.
12/06/2018
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News
A Tuesday broadcast by Microsoft President Brad Smith served as a reminder that Microsoft is still proceeding with its efforts to expand broadband Internet access in rural and underserved areas of the United States.
12/05/2018
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Kubernetes deployments have "Critical" flaws that could permit information disclosures, according to a Kubernetes announcement.
12/05/2018
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Microsoft's artificial intelligence capabilities are popping up all over the stack, sometimes in surprising places.
12/05/2018
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
Once a milestone of modern technology, Microsoft's original mixed-reality device is now starting to show its age.
12/05/2018
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News
Microsoft and Docker on Tuesday announced a new specification and a new tool for organizations and developers managing distributed applications.
12/04/2018
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Microsoft is open sourcing some of the most popular Windows-centric .NET Framework components, particularly Windows Presentation Foundation, Windows Forms and Windows UI XAML Library.
12/04/2018
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Microsoft debuted SQL Server 2019 at Ignite, but a more technically detailed picture of the next-gen database platform emerged only later at the PASS Summit. Here are some of the standout additions and improvements.
12/04/2018
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Intel announced late last month that it has started introducing "Windows Modern Drivers" for its processors on Windows 10 version 1809-based machines.
12/03/2018
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Artificial intelligence (AI) will come into focus at the Live! 360 conference for Microsoft-focused developers and IT professionals this week in Orlando, Fla.
12/03/2018
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News
Microsoft this week highlighted new and coming improvements for Office 365 users.
11/30/2018
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
PowerShell sometimes displays far more information than you can comfortably digest. Thankfully, there are ways to display only the information that really matters.
11/30/2018
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In-Depth
IT pros got an earful about Windows 10 servicing, plus lots of talk about Windows Autopilot, in a recent Microsoft Web presentation.
11/29/2018
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
A common way to attach a virtual hard disk to a virtual machine is via the Hyper-V Manager. But, as Brien shows, you can use PowerShell instead.
11/28/2018
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The cloud giant just delivered some big news to datacenter managers watching the rapidly evolving Arm processor market.
11/28/2018
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News
Microsoft is planning to expand the availability of its new "account manager" multiple sign-in capability, which will be available across various Microsoft online services sometime next year.
11/27/2018
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Microsoft apparently has addressed an Azure multifactor authentication (MFA) service outage for the second time in as many weeks.
11/27/2018
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News
Microsoft indicated that it's possible now to use devices based on the Fast IDentity Online 2.0 protocol with a Microsoft account and Windows 10 version 1809, obviating the need for a password.
11/26/2018
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News
The Microsoft Teams collaboration service now supports the assignment of four different IT administrator roles, Microsoft announced last week.
11/26/2018
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As the tides fall in the tech sector, Microsoft's market cap has emerged as the largest.
11/26/2018
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
A few minutes of clock skew might seem like a non-issue, but don't be fooled. There are multiple scenarios where having differing clocks could wreak minor havoc. Here's how to address the problem.
11/26/2018
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Expert and consultant Vlad Catrinescu offers some thoughts for organizations contemplating impending SharePoint Server moves.
11/19/2018
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News
Microsoft on Thursday announced the release of the Windows Compatibility Module 1.0.0 for PowerShell Core 6.
11/16/2018
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
If you're getting error messages while trying to manage a remote Hyper-V host from a Windows 10 desktop, here's one possible reason -- and a solution.
11/16/2018
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News
Microsoft on Tuesday kicked off a discussion series in which the company is promising to be more transparent about Windows 10 servicing and associated quality issues.
11/14/2018
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An acquisition this week layers some new resources onto Microsoft's already rich capabilities in the area of conversational AI.
11/14/2018
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
As Brien shows, here's where WMI filtering comes in handy.
11/14/2018
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News
Microsoft on Tuesday rereleased the Windows 10 October 2018 Update (version 1809), as well as Windows Server 2019 and its Windows Server-as-a-service cousins.
11/13/2018
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
Here's how to use PowerShell to manage Hyper-V virtual machines without having to jump through the usual hoops.
11/12/2018
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News
Microsoft on Friday updated its advice to Windows 10 Pro edition users frustrated by a recent activation glitch.
11/09/2018
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The datacenter of 2020 and beyond will look quite different from the datacenter of today, according to researchers at IDC.
11/09/2018
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Docker announced a new Windows Server Application Migration program on Thursday.
11/08/2018
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Symantec Corp. is buying its way into the business of defending Active Directory against reconnaissance attacks.
11/08/2018
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
Inking tools have existed within PowerPoint for a while now, but Microsoft has recently upped their capabilities and creativity.
11/08/2018
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News
Microsoft announced some SQL Server-associated news as part of the PASS Summit event for database administrators and developers, which is ongoing this week.
11/07/2018
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Security researchers at Kaspersky Labs this week provided an update on what personal digital data is worth on dark Web markets.
11/07/2018
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There used to be few good options for a DBA with a bunch of systems stuck on SQL Server 2008. But thanks to one easy trick, businesses on aging infrastructure can take advantage of Microsoft's modern data platform.
11/07/2018
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Microsoft issued security advisory ADV180028 on Tuesday for computer users that have self-encrypting solid-state drives (SSDs) that are ostensibly protected by Microsoft's BitLocker encryption scheme.
11/06/2018
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
More than a perk for hobbyists, Microsoft's new SDK will -- for the first time -- give anyone who has basic development skills a way to build apps for an emerging class of IoT device.
11/06/2018
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News
Microsoft plans to deliver more Linux love with the Windows Subsystem for Linux when it finally releases Windows 10 version 1809, otherwise known as the "October 2018 Update."
11/05/2018
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Microsoft killed its Easy Fix service for Windows systems last month, and this month appeared to be ending the Microsoft Hotfix Service.
11/05/2018
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Microsoft's collaborative deal with Walmart is shaping up to be a digital transformation laboratory.
11/05/2018
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Microsoft indicated this week that improvements to the Skype Meetings App, plus Mac client improvements, will be arriving fairly soon or "over the next two months."
11/02/2018
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Originally, the game was to become the first company with a trillion-dollar market capitalization. After a brutal October, the next phase of the game appears is who can stay a trillion-dollar company.
11/02/2018
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Microsoft now permits Azure Active Directory licensing to be assigned based on groups within an organization.
11/02/2018