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Posey's Tips & Tricks
Microsoft recently lifted the device limit for Personal and Home subscribers of Office 365. That's great news for individual users, but what's in it for Microsoft? Here are some possible reasons for the move.
10/03/2018
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Microsoft on Tuesday announced the release of Windows 10 version 1809, otherwise known as the "October 2018 Update" release.
10/02/2018
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Microsoft on Tuesday refreshed three devices in the Surface hardware line, teased Surface-branded headphones that integrate with Cortana, and revealed a new consumer financing program for Surface buyers.
10/02/2018
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Microsoft provided updates on SharePoint Online and SharePoint Server 2019 last week during its Ignite conference.
10/02/2018
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Just in time for the expected unveiling of some new Surface hardware on Tuesday, the current generation of Microsoft Surface devices got an "all clear" from the editors of Consumer Reports.
10/01/2018
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Microsoft is working to bring the Linux-based Robot Operating System (ROS) to Windows.
10/01/2018
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
Today's IT conferences are no longer the three-ring circuses they were during the dot-com boom, but they're also not the fuddy-duddy events that became common right after the crash. Case in point: Microsoft Ignite 2018.
10/01/2018
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IT pros likely are too busy addressing failed Windows patches to focus on the latest marketing push from Microsoft, but "modern desktop" and even "managed desktop" seem to be the latest things.
09/28/2018
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Microsoft this week announced a few coming improvements for its various configuration, deployment and management tools.
09/27/2018
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SQL Server 2019, Azure Sphere, in-use encryption in Azure and a major Azure IoT initiative called "digital twin" headlined a bounty of new technology previews from Microsoft for customers and partners to test and evaluate.
09/27/2018
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Microsoft announced a new approach on Thursday to reduce the download size of Windows 10 feature updates, but it only affects organizations upgrading x64 systems using Windows Server Update Services.
09/27/2018
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
As Brien demonstrates, string validation is not the only type of input validation that PowerShell can perform.
09/27/2018
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Microsoft Threat Protection, a newly assembled bundle of security solutions for enterprise organizations, was announced this week as part of the ongoing Microsoft Ignite event.
09/26/2018
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With its rapid growth, partnership with Lenovo and aggressive roadmap, the startup is taking direct aim at CEO Renee James' former company, Intel.
09/26/2018
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Microsoft is planning to ship its Surface Hub 2S conferencing room product in the second quarter of 2019, according to a Monday announcement.
09/25/2018
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Microsoft on Monday announced a coming preview of Windows Virtual Desktop, a new service that will deliver virtual Windows desktops and apps to end users from Microsoft Azure infrastructure.
09/25/2018
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The biggest feature in the SQL Server 2019 preview launched at Ignite is SQL Server Big Data clusters. Travis Wright, Microsoft's principal program manager for SQL Server, explains exactly what this means for administrators.
09/25/2018
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
If your automated script takes action based on a value, it's critical to make sure the value is correct. Good thing PowerShell has ways to validate the values that are passed to a function.
09/25/2018
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Microsoft on Monday released Office 2019, its "perpetual-license" product for both Windows 10 and the Mac platform.
09/24/2018
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Windows Server 2019 will reach "general availability" commercial release next month, Microsoft announced on Monday during its Ignite 2018 conference.
09/24/2018
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Windows Server 2019, IoT Central, Azure Firewall and a dozen other releases have entered the phase of being fully ready and supported for production use.
09/24/2018
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Azure Data Box, Microsoft's heavy-duty data transfer appliance for the cloud, is now generally available after a nearly year-long preview phase.
09/24/2018
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Microsoft announced the latest preview of its next-gen SQL Server product at Ignite. Here's a rundown of everything the new release promises, from performance enhancements to security and availability perks.
09/24/2018
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
Unlike previous years' opening keynotes, Monday's was less focused on product announcements and demos, and more on CEO Satya Nadella's vision for digital transformation across industries.
09/24/2018
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Microsoft plans to release future Windows servicing stack updates as part of its monthly update rollups to avoid issues that have affected some Windows 7 users in recent months.
09/21/2018
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Microsoft's No. 1 networking feature for the forthcoming Windows Server 2019 product is Kubernetes support, according to a Wednesday announcement.
09/21/2018
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Windows Admin Center version 1809 and an updated software development kit (SDK) have reached "general availability" status, Microsoft announced on Thursday.
09/20/2018
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Microsoft is planning initiate a modified .NET Framework monthly patch delivery scheme for newer Windows systems, possibly starting next month, according to a Wednesday announcement.
09/20/2018
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
A grab-bag of predictions for Microsoft's upcoming IT event. Also in the cards: open source getting short shrift.
09/20/2018
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Microsoft gave the green light this week for organizations to deploy the Microsoft Teams app on Surface Hub devices.
09/19/2018
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Constant equipment refreshes mean a constant need for new power configurations. One company has a fix for that particular side effect of all this expansion.
09/19/2018
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Microsoft is initiating a new service for organizations in which it'll take over managing Windows 10 desktops, from the initial provisioning process to routine patching.
09/18/2018
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Microsoft gave notice last week that its "classic" Microsoft Intune device management portal won't have support for managing Windows 7 devices when that operating system reaches its end-of-support date.
09/18/2018
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A challenge with AI and mixed reality is figuring out how to apply futuristic concepts to everyday business problems. Microsoft is trying to move that process along within its business applications suite, Dynamics 365.
09/18/2018
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
If Microsoft can run its massive, land-bound datacenters with almost no tech staff, the idea of letting a submerged datacenter operate for five years without any direct human contact seems at least plausible.
09/18/2018
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Microsoft has turned on a technology to protect against malicious macros for Office 365 ProPlus subscribers, the company announced last week.
09/17/2018
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Microsoft highlighted its changed views about open source software development during a recent day-long Open Source Virtual Conference.
09/17/2018
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Microsoft announced on Thursday that its open source PowerShell Core 6.1 product is now available.
09/14/2018
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
There's a rumor that Microsoft is planning to replace Hyper-V with an alternative feature called simply "Virtual Machines." Brien breaks down just how little sense that would make.
09/14/2018
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Microsoft's No. 2 top networking feature in Windows Server 2019 is a technical boost for independent software vendors working in the broadcast video space, according to a Wednesday announcement.
09/13/2018
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San Francisco, Calif.-based Lobe, an artificial intelligence startup that offers a "no code" approach for developing AI projects, is now part of Microsoft.
09/13/2018
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A new server designed to support deep learning projects is coming from Cisco Systems Inc.
09/13/2018
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Microsoft announced some news earlier this month of concern to IT pros that maintain SharePoint Online intranets, including the nuances of adding "branding" to sites.
09/12/2018
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Thinking scripts instead of functions is just one of the many ways you're missing out on the true power of PowerShell.
09/12/2018
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Microsoft's September security updates, released on Tuesday, included a fix for a zero-day local privilege escalation flaw that was disclosed with lots of drama last month.
09/12/2018
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
A relatively new type of phishing attack is targeting Office 365 users while completely circumventing all of the usual security defenses.
09/12/2018
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The Visual Studio team on Monday issued a postmortem analysis for a Sept. 4 service outage that happened in Microsoft's U.S. South Central region.
09/11/2018
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The company's plan to modernize its infrastructure also includes tapping open source technologies and -- as Microsoft and Facebook have done -- open sourcing its server designs in turn.
09/11/2018
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Microsoft's Project VAST is now a supported product that's offered to Microsoft Premier customers, Microsoft announced last week.
09/10/2018
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Microsoft is highlighting the ability to quickly set up connections to Azure virtual networks as a top Windows Server 2019 networking feature.
09/10/2018