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Samsung Electronics America Inc. on Friday began selling a Snapdragon-based 2-in-1 mobile PC with LTE support for always-on connectivity.
11/02/2018
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
PowerShell makes it possible to gain a detailed understanding of what roles do, and of the relationship between roles and features.
11/02/2018
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Microsoft announced on Tuesday that it has enabled presence for coexistence modes when those settings are used to specify collaborations for Microsoft Teams and Skype for Business end users.
11/01/2018
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Microsoft on Wednesday announced the release of SQL Server 2014 Service Pack 3 (SP3).
10/31/2018
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
Here are some PowerShell tricks for finding out which roles and features are installed on Windows Server.
10/31/2018
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Microsoft announced a couple of improvements this month concerning public folder management using its Exchange messaging service.
10/30/2018
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A Microsoft expert offered his views on using "third-party" multicloud management solutions, and generally downplayed the use of multiple clouds as a strategy for organizations.
10/29/2018
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IBM's plan to spend a whopping $34 billion to acquire Red Hat is all about the cloud. This big bet is partially a bet that the cloud gold rush isn't over, with IBM locked in a distant third place.
10/29/2018
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
Despite all of HoloLens' unique uses, Brien never expected to be wearing it while floating around weightless. That's exactly how he spent this morning -- with mixed results.
10/29/2018
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Microsoft announced on Friday that its acquisition of the GitHub open source code repository is complete, having passed regulatory reviews.
10/26/2018
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Microsoft recently clarified its previously declared position that it had planned to drop support for Transport Layer Security (TLS) 1.0 and 1.1 protocols used with Office 365 services by the end of this month.
10/26/2018
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Microsoft made a few notable Azure announcements this week, including an Azure Availability Zones expansion, plus ExpressRoute support for the Azure DevOps service.
10/25/2018
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While analysts on the Microsoft earnings call Wednesday were positive about the quarterly results, they asked CEO Satya Nadella and CFO Amy Hood repeatedly about the growth rate for Microsoft Azure.
10/25/2018
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
Here's a step-by-step guide to setting up Microsoft Teams for video conferencing.
10/25/2018
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Microsoft on Tuesday announced a preview of the ability to use hardware OATH tokens with the Azure multifactor authentication service.
10/24/2018
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Microsoft on Tuesday confirmed a file copy problem with the .ZIP compressed file solution in the Windows 10 "October 2018 Update."
10/24/2018
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
As your organization's Office 365 dataset grows, it becomes increasingly difficult for users to find the data they're looking for. This is where Microsoft Search comes into play.
10/23/2018
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At stake is a fabrication facility that makes 3D XPoint tech, which datacenter analysts see as an answer to the increasing performance demands of AI and HPC.
10/23/2018
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Microsoft on Monday announced the release of its 2019-branded application servers, including Exchange Server, SharePoint Server, Project Server and Skype for Business Server.
10/22/2018
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Rarely any more is Bill Gates deployed by Microsoft as an intentional public spokesman. Yet the Microsoft co-founder is still deeply involved in some operations at the company.
10/22/2018
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Microsoft released its MSIX Packaging Tool via the Microsoft Store this week, according to an announcement.
10/19/2018
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Microsoft's Unified Update Platform may soon see light of day, based on a Thursday Microsoft announcement.
10/19/2018
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
After advances in the Surface pen, Brien didn't think Microsoft could do more to improve the digital inking capabilities in Office. He was wrong.
10/19/2018
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Microsoft on Wednesday described its Component Firmware Update (CFU) effort, which is a new open source protocol that Windows developers can leverage to keep their drivers and firmware properly updated.
10/18/2018
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A SQL Server expert gives his take on the absolute, No. 1, very worst thing IT pros can do when it comes to indexing.
10/18/2018
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Microsoft may be primarily associated with its other co-founder, but Paul Allen has left several significant and lasting markers on the 43-year-old company.
10/18/2018
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Microsoft is starting to clarify some of the SharePoint and OneDrive milestones that were announced during its September Ignite event.
10/18/2018
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Microsoft has released a public preview of a new capability that allows IT pros to disable "basic authentication" when using the Exchange Online service.
10/17/2018
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
The next step is to delete the OEM partition between the C: volume and your unallocated space. You'll need to use an old command-line tool for that.
10/17/2018
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The public preview of Azure Digital Twins was released this week, according to a Microsoft announcement.
10/16/2018
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Microsoft last week announced a new Azure Active Directory Connect Health feature for IT pros that resolves duplicate attribute sync errors with an organization's local Active Directory.
10/15/2018
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Apple, Google, Microsoft and Mozilla are all moving to disable the use of the Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocols versions 1.0 and 1.1 in their browsers, giving notice that they'll be dropping support within the first half of 2020.
10/15/2018
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Microsoft noted on Friday that Intel had "unintentionally" released an updated Intel Smart Sound Technology driver through Microsoft's Windows Update service that caused devices running Windows 10 version 1803 or 1809 to lose sound.
10/15/2018
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
Windows 10 comes with some native tools to help you expand your hard disk space. Here's how to get started on freeing up some room.
10/15/2018
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Microsoft issued a support article on Friday acknowledging "blue screen" issues for users of Hewlett-Packard PCs that were updated to the newly released Windows 10 version 1809, as well as version 1803.
10/12/2018
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The Microsoft Surface is becoming a factor in the U.S. PC market, according to market researchers.
10/12/2018
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Microsoft on Wednesday announced a public preview of Azure confidential computing, which previously had been at the more restricted "Early Access" preview stage about a year ago.
10/11/2018
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Microsoft on Wednesday gave a two years' advance notice that support for its Groove Server 2010 peer-to-peer communications product will be coming to an end on Oct. 13, 2020.
10/11/2018
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
The short answer is, "They don't." Here's how to track down those wayward e-mails and keep them from being hidden again.
10/11/2018
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Microsoft announced on Wednesday that it is joining the Open Invention Network (OIN), an organization that protects its members from patent infringement claims regarding the use of the open source Linux operating system.
10/10/2018
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Microsoft on Tuesday offered an explanation, an apology and a future resolution for its flawed Windows 10 version 1809 release last week, which caused files to go missing for some users.
10/09/2018
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True or not, Bloomberg's report raises an obvious question: What can datacenter managers do to ensure the security of their organizations' hardware? The short answer is, nothing simple.
10/09/2018
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Microsoft on Monday announced a couple of SQL Server changes, including a change to the delivery schedule for cumulative updates (CUs), along with a change to how slipstreamed media will work for new deployments.
10/09/2018
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
IMAP is almost universally supported, making it a good method for migrating from a non-Exchange Server platform to Office 365. But there are several limitations you need to know about before getting started.
10/09/2018
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Microsoft has changed the availability of printer and scanner drivers, starting with the release of Windows 10 version 1809.
10/08/2018
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Just four days after releasing the latest version of Windows 10 and other "version 1809" operating systems, Microsoft is issuing a recall.
10/08/2018
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Microsoft indicated on Thursday that its Azure Active Directory B2C service wasn't affected by the Facebook hack last month that potentially exposed the access tokens of about 50 million Facebook users.
10/05/2018
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
The problem with SharePoint Spaces is that it lacks a compelling business use case. But after testing out the feature at Microsoft Ignite, Brien thinks he's got one figured out.
10/05/2018
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Microsoft announced on Thursday that its Edge and Internet Explorer browsers will stop trusting certain SSL/TLS certificates that were issued by former certificate authority company Symantec.
10/04/2018
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Microsoft announced on Tuesday that Windows Server 2019 has reached "general availability" commercial release status, although the certified hardware from equipment makers is yet to come.
10/03/2018