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The Office 2019 "commercial preview" for Windows 10 is available as of today, according to a Microsoft announcement.
04/27/2018
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Microsoft's next semiannual channel release of the Windows 10 client is bringing new operating system features and will be available starting on Monday, April 30.
04/27/2018
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
Home is where your data is. If you need to access data remotely, and neither a VPN connection nor traditional cloud storage will do the trick, consider using OneDrive as a proxy for remote file access.
04/27/2018
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Microsoft is bringing its OneDrive file-sharing and collaboration capabilities seen with Windows desktop and Web applications to Office for Mac, as well as to Android and iOS mobile applications.
04/26/2018
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Microsoft on Wednesday announced the "general availability" of Azure Container Instances, a serverless runtime that's designed to make it easier for developers to spin up containers on Microsoft's public datacenter infrastructure.
04/26/2018
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Microsoft reported earnings on Thursday of $0.95 per share on revenues of $26.82 billion.
04/26/2018
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The new technology from Intel comes as hardware-based security and modern CPU threats like Meltdown and Spectre increasingly make headlines.
04/26/2018
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Windows Insider Program testers got a new preview build of Windows Server 2019 this week.
04/25/2018
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Microsoft announced the availability of SQL Server 2016 Service Pack 2 on Tuesday.
04/25/2018
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Foley on Microsoft
If Microsoft makes a bunch of updates to its Dynamics business but nobody is around to communicate it, does it make a sound?
04/25/2018
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Microsoft has expanded its Exchange Online public folder limits, once again.
04/24/2018
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Microsoft is switching the groups privacy setting in Outlook and SharePoint Online from its current "public" default setting to "private" by default.
04/24/2018
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Microsoft plans to end three Windows Phone applications on May 20, 2018.
04/24/2018
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Microsoft announced last week that it's now possible to use Windows Admin Center with Windows Server 2016 to manage hyperconverged infrastructure, although it's still at the testing stage.
04/23/2018
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
Network printing doesn't have to be a free-for-all, where anyone with a connection can access any printer on a given network. Microsoft provides a few basic controls to secure and manage access.
04/23/2018
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Microsoft this week announced tooling enhancements to help organizations using Azure and Office 365 services meet the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation requirements.
04/20/2018
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Microsoft this week announced the availability of a preview of a new Privileged Access Management capability for IT departments overseeing Office 365 tenancies.
04/20/2018
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
We can say it now: From its hardware quality to its ecosystem of third-party apps, Microsoft's answer to Apple's MacBook Pro has been a pleasant surprise.
04/20/2018
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Microsoft this week described progress on its sprawling collection of security services, including its Advanced Threat Protection, Conditional Access, Information Protection and Security Graph solutions.
04/19/2018
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Microsoft is planning to stop building its OneNote desktop application, with the current OneNote 2016 product being the last of its kind.
04/19/2018
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Microsoft this week announced new passwordless sign-in support, using FIDO2, that's coming to the spring Windows 10 release and now available at preview.
04/18/2018
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The Cybersecurity Tech Accord was announced today, with 34 tech companies joining.
04/17/2018
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Microsoft hearts Linux and all, but the company is reaching a new level.
04/17/2018
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Microsoft outlined a major new security vision this week called Azure Sphere that aims to secure the billions of devices on the Internet of Things (IoT) from device hardware to software to cloud, and gives Microsoft a central role.
04/17/2018
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
A step-by-step guide to moving your organization's mailboxes from Google's cloud productivity suite to Microsoft's.
04/16/2018
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Gartner and IDC this week both released their reports on the worldwide PC market. It's a tale of two markets -- with neither of the stories being very happy.
04/13/2018
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Microsoft has answered a few press questions about the newly released Windows Admin Center management tool.
04/13/2018
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
Be careful what you say -- and how slowly you say it.
04/13/2018
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Microsoft on Thursday renamed Project Honolulu, calling it the "Windows Admin Center," and released it for use in production environments.
04/12/2018
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Microsoft on Wednesday announced previews that are coming to SharePoint Online users, including a new migration tool plus perks for end users.
04/11/2018
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
How to let SharePoint users add just the right amount of information to make searching for files easier, without going overboard.
04/11/2018
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Microsoft on Tuesday announced a new channel-release preview of Windows Server build 17639, highlighting two new features.
04/10/2018
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AMD has released microcode updates to its original equipment manufacturing partners to address Spectre variant 2 attack methods for Windows 10 systems.
04/10/2018
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Microsoft has brought back the original Windows 3.0 File Manager as an open source Visual Studio solution that can run on Windows 10.
04/10/2018
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Microsoft now enables the use of Outlook e-mail client applications for Android or iOS devices with some Exchange Server products in "hybrid modern authentication" scenarios.
04/09/2018
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Microsoft gave advance notice this month that it's planning to change the user interface for carrying out Azure Active Directory logins, yet again.
04/09/2018
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Adam Kujawa, director of Malwarebytes Labs, has a strong reaction to the amount of cryptomining malware his company saw in the first quarter of 2018.
04/09/2018
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
For starters, don't be surprised if Microsoft takes an axe to Server Manager in favor of Project Honolulu.
04/09/2018
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Microsoft is planning to narrow options in June for Office 365 tenancies by effectively ending the "native" SharePoint Online public newsfeed that they may use.
04/06/2018
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Microsoft this week offered some practical advice on how to set up its hybrid cloud printing capability.
04/06/2018
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
Microsoft's CPU Groups tool lets you group CPU resources, cap resource consumption, and bind individual VMs to the group. Here's how.
04/06/2018
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Microsoft has created a new management portal with combined controls for both Skype for Business Online and Teams, and it gave notice to IT pros on Thursday that it is transitioning them toward this new experience.
04/05/2018
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Microsoft announced a $5 billion Internet of Things investment plan on Wednesday, with spending occurring "over the next four years."
04/04/2018
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Microsoft has lobbied consistently for the CLOUD Act, but the speed with which the federal legislation went from bill to presidential signature took even the technology giant by surprise.
04/04/2018
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Intel this week indicated that it isn't planning to release microcode updates for some of its processors to prevent Spectre attack methods.
04/04/2018
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In-Depth
The cloud solves a lot of traditional Windows network problems, but printing isn't one of them. And while the market offers some solutions, each one comes with its own baggage.
04/04/2018
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Microsoft is previewing a new Web service that publishes network data endpoints that are used to connect to Office 365 services.
04/03/2018
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Microsoft announced two new Azure datacenter regions in Australia this week.
04/02/2018
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Microsoft announced last week that it has started enabling Microsoft Teams retention policies for Office 365 tenancies.
04/02/2018
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A new training module in Microsoft's Professional Program gives tens of thousands of people a chance to brush up their AI skills.
04/02/2018