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Posey's Tips & Tricks
Microsoft lets Windows Server 2016 users allocate CPU resources at a much more granular level than before. To get started, here's an overview of basic CPU topology.
04/02/2018
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Microsoft this week noted March improvements and previews that are starting to arrive for Office 365 subscribers.
03/30/2018
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The Azure Availability Zones uptime assurance offering for hosted workloads is now ready for use by some Azure users, according to a Microsoft announcement on Friday.
03/30/2018
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
Windows Phone may be dead in the water, but based on Microsoft's recently disclosed plans for Windows 10 on ARM, the company's mobile aspirations are still going strong.
03/30/2018
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Microsoft described Project VAST this week, a new tool that promises to visually surface security problems.
03/29/2018
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The next Windows Server semiannual channel release will arrive in the first half of this year, and it'll be known as "Windows Server version 1803," Microsoft announced Thursday.
03/29/2018
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Microsoft on Thursday announced a major reorganization that has significant implications for its Windows business.
03/29/2018
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Azure SQL Data Warehouse service is now available across all 33 Microsoft Azure regions.
03/28/2018
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Microsoft published documentation on Wednesday showing how to deploy a new browser-based Remote Desktop Web Client that's available for testing at the preview stage.
03/28/2018
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Officials from the FBI and Department of Homeland Security are warning network managers to be on the lookout for password-spray attacks.
03/28/2018
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
Here's a quick survey of the newest Web Parts available for SharePoint, including Power BI, Planner and Office 365 Connectors.
03/28/2018
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Security patches to protect Windows 7 from Meltdown reportedly opened up a different, gaping security flaw in the way the OS protected memory.
03/27/2018
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Linux developers got added support from Microsoft this week with the publication of some Windows Subsystem for Linux open source code on the GitHub repository.
03/27/2018
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The Azure Service Health dashboard, used to check the status of Azure services, has reached the "general availability" stage, Microsoft announced this week.
03/27/2018
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Microsoft now has "next-generation" Azure Monitor alert capabilities that can incur costs to use, alongside its free "classic" alerts.
03/26/2018
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Microsoft on Monday announced a preview of a new Serial Console command-line tool for recovering Linux and Windows VMs running on Azure infrastructure.
03/26/2018
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Does Microsoft have a shot in the race to be the first trillion-dollar company?
03/26/2018
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Foley on Microsoft
There's room for more than just business software and services under Microsoft's "intelligent cloud" umbrella. Soon, it will cover its gaming assets, too.
03/26/2018
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Microsoft announced the "current branch" release of Update 1802 for System Center Configuration Manager on Thursday.
03/23/2018
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
As far as set-it-and-forget-it backup solutions go, there are few more convenient than the File History feature that's built natively into Windows 10.
03/23/2018
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AMD indicated on Wednesday that it is working on firmware updates to address processor security issues publicized last week by CTS Labs.
03/22/2018
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Microsoft this week announced the commercial availability of Azure Database services for both MySQL and PostgreSQL.
03/22/2018
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Cloud megavendors like AWS and Microsoft are leading the hyperscale datacenter boom. But legacy workloads mean uncertainty for more average organizations.
03/22/2018
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The SharePoint Hub Sites intranet feature will be coming to Office 365 subscribers as early as the end of this month, Microsoft announced Wednesday.
03/21/2018
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Microsoft highlighted some of its work with the Open Compute Project this week, including its latest effort with CNEX Labs to simplify solid-state drive technology used in datacenters.
03/21/2018
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Microsoft has been steadily incorporating more and more of its enterprise intelligence chops into its business applications, and Dynamics 365 looks poised to be one of the effort's biggest beneficiaries.
03/21/2018
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
Microsoft gives you the ability to create a comprehensive backup of your entire computer in Windows 10. You just have to do a little digging to find it.
03/21/2018
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Windows Server 2019 will reach general availability "in the second half of calendar year 2018," according to a Microsoft announcement today.
03/20/2018
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Azure Traffic Manager now has a couple of new features at the "general availability" stage.
03/19/2018
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Microsoft announced a couple of Azure Active Directory improvements last week.
03/19/2018
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Microsoft's cloud DBaaS has had a whirlwind month with the introduction of managed instances, database migration tools and more. Here's what each feature does and when to use it.
03/19/2018
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Microsoft this week announced a bug bounty program to solicit security-researcher contributions about "speculative execution" side-channel CPU vulnerabilities.
03/15/2018
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Microsoft announced this week that its Azure Service Fabric microservices application development platform is moving to an open development process, which will be housed at the GitHub code repository.
03/15/2018
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Intel's massive effort to protect all of the chips it has released in the past five years against Spectre and Meltdown is now finished.
03/15/2018
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
Microsoft's blockbuster acquisition of the enterprise social network is starting to bear fruit. Here's a quick tour of the built-in LinkedIn integration inside Word.
03/15/2018
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Microsoft on Wednesday announced an expansion of its datacenter regions for delivering Microsoft Azure and Office 365 services.
03/14/2018
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Security researchers have found a logical flaw in the Credential Security Support Provider protocol used by Remote Desktop and WinRM and affecting all supported versions of Windows.
03/14/2018
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Microsoft announced on Tuesday that it removed an anti-virus compatibility check for some Windows 10 version 1709 devices, and it expanded some Spectre microcode approvals.
03/13/2018
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
Though it's tempting to think of SharePoint as a Web-based collaboration platform, it's also possible to synchronize the contents of a SharePoint document library to your PC using OneDrive.
03/13/2018
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Microsoft expanded its Azure Virtual Machine sizes this month with new isolated and GPU offerings.
03/12/2018
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Microsoft on Monday marked the one-year anniversary of rolling out Microsoft Teams by introducing a raft of new features coming to the teamwork hub through this calendar year.
03/12/2018
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In-Depth
The goal of IT infrastructure and application monitoring solutions must be more than to provide insight into IT operations. Here's what to look for.
03/12/2018
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Microsoft this week announced various Azure SQL Database improvements, including migration, high-availability and information protection options.
03/09/2018
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
Some of these assumptions are perfectly valid for most situations, but others -- despite Microsoft's best intentions -- are a bit more puzzling.
03/09/2018
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Microsoft announced new trouble-ticketing support additions to the Office 365 Admin Center portal for IT pros, including one improvement specifically aimed at Microsoft Premier users.
03/08/2018
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Windows 10 in "S mode" soon will be available in all Windows 10 editions, and Microsoft plans to drop a proposed charge for users wanting to switch from S mode.
03/08/2018
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Microsoft gave notice it's ending Outlook Web Apps for Android, iPad and iPhone devices over the next couple of months.
03/07/2018
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McAfee on Wednesday announced newly available and coming security support for Microsoft Azure services via McAfee Cloud Security Platform products.
03/07/2018
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Microsoft is readying a new machine learning platform for Windows 10 that will help developers add artificial intelligence (AI) functionality into their apps.
03/07/2018
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Kali Linux, the distribution dedicated to penetration testing and a favorite of hackers wearing white, gray and black hats all around the world, just hit the Microsoft App Store.
03/07/2018