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Posey's Tips & Tricks
A close look at Microsoft's new Power BI Web Part, currently in preview, which expands your ability to publish and share Power BI data.
03/07/2018
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Microsoft added a couple of Linux operating system distros to the Windows Store this week, and described some of its ongoing open source work.
03/06/2018
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Microsoft this week described best practices for identity security when using Azure Active Directory or Windows Server Active Directory Federation Services.
03/05/2018
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
Microsoft's digital inking device has finally outgrown its awkward start to become a truly effortless productivity tool.
03/05/2018
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Microsoft announced this week that it made available some Intel Skylake microcode updates that address Spectre variant 2 types of attacks for Windows 10 version 1709.
03/02/2018
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The server business was booming in the fourth quarter of 2017, according to market research from IDC. PCs and smartphones, not so much.
03/02/2018
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The Azure Migrate tool can now be used by organizations to help plan moves of their on-premises virtual machines and applications to Azure datacenter infrastructure.
03/01/2018
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The product, now deemed ready for use in production environments, is a cloud-based service for detecting and analyzing security incidents in an organization.
03/01/2018
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
With his advocacy of everything from Bluetooth to quantum computers, CEO Satya Nadella doesn't seem as eager to abandon his predecessor's hardware focus as he once was.
03/01/2018
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The Microsoft Teams collaboration solution will be getting a new capability to invite people with consumer e-mail addresses to join an organization's teams spaces.
02/28/2018
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In a lively one-hour discussion ranging from privacy rights to latency issues to robots conducting overseas seizures, U.S. Supreme Court justices sparred with lawyers from Microsoft and the government in oral arguments on Tuesday.
02/28/2018
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Microsoft has released a solution that converts data stored by StorSimple into a format that can be used with various Azure services.
02/27/2018
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Microsoft Intune now works with Pradeo Security for Mobile Defense, which can add additional security protections for organizations that use Android and iOS mobile devices.
02/27/2018
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
It's not 2008 anymore; go ahead and virtualize all of your domain controllers.
02/27/2018
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Microsoft last week announced a preview of new Naming Policy, available with the Azure Active Directory Premium service, that adds some controls over Office 365 groups creation.
02/26/2018
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Microsoft will make its arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court in a final bid to sway a case that's central to the willingness of international customers to trust U.S.-based cloud providers with their data.
02/26/2018
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Foley on Microsoft
In a departure from its other acquisitions, Microsoft seems content to let LinkedIn do its own thing. At least for now.
02/26/2018
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Organizations looking at their client operating system futures may find that they'll have little choice except to buy Windows 10 Enterprise edition licensing.
02/23/2018
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Intel has released an updated "Microcode Revision Guidance" document that includes more detailed information about the state of its firmware patches to address potential Meltdown and Spectre attack scenarios.
02/23/2018
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Also in the tea leaves: The rapid ascendance of hyperscale datacenters the likes of Microsoft, Amazon and Google need to run their massive clouds.
02/23/2018
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
The new feature is incredibly handy for power users, but could cause some stress if you don't like the thought of all of your activities being logged.
02/23/2018
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Microsoft this week announced the "general availability" (GA) status of some compliance and information protection tools for use by Microsoft 365 product licensees.
02/22/2018
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Windows 10 PCs powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon Mobile PC processors, which are known as "Always Connected PCs," are seeing some progress.
02/21/2018
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Microsoft this week shared minimal information about its new "paid supplemental servicing" option for volume licensing customers using the Enterprise or Education editions of Windows 10.
02/21/2018
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Security researchers at FireEye have concluded that a series of attacks represent a discrete cyber-espionage group operating on behalf of North Korea.
02/21/2018
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More from Microsoft's lead SQL architect about how telemetry data is helping the company deliver regular, highly requested and targeted feature improvements at a massive scale.
02/21/2018
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Microsoft on Friday warned users of Skype Room Systems version 2 that they should not try to upgrade to Windows 10 version 1709.
02/20/2018
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Microsoft is planning to distribute new and updated SharePoint Online WebParts, with test versions arriving in about two weeks' time for Office 365 subscribers.
02/20/2018
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A recent report from RightScale Inc. sheds further light on the contest between cloud market leader Amazon Web Services (AWS) and its closest competitor, Microsoft Azure.
02/20/2018
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
Installing the new Windows Server management tool is easy enough, but figuring out how to make it work for you will take some time and experimentation.
02/19/2018
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News
Various Microsoft Azure services hit "general availability" status this month, meaning that Microsoft views them as ready for production use.
02/16/2018
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This is one of Oracle's most ambitious infrastructure projects to date, but is it too late to unseat leaders AWS, Microsoft and Google?
02/16/2018
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
Here are some of the more practical ways Microsoft is using its vast machine learning and AI assets to make its productivity suite more useful.
02/16/2018
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Microsoft issued some security help and advisories for IT pros this month.
02/15/2018
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The Microsoft Identity Division, which is responsible for Active Directory developments, is embracing blockchain technologies to improve digital identity security and increase overall control by end users.
02/14/2018
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Peter Bauer's perch offers a commanding view of one of the greatest migrations in the history of IT -- the movement from on-premises Exchange servers to Office 365.
02/14/2018
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In the first of this two-part series, Microsoft's lead SQL architect explains how the company collects -- and secures -- telemetry data from Azure SQL Database customers to improve its engineering process.
02/14/2018
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Microsoft last week announced that its entire System Center suite of management tools now follows a channel-release update model.
02/13/2018
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Microsoft has added capabilities to its Windows Analytics tools that can help IT pros check on the status of client device Meltdown and Spectre protections, according to a Tuesday announcement.
02/13/2018
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Microsoft wants Office 365 customers to stop using the old Transport Layer Security 1.0 and 1.1 protocols, and use TLS 1.2 instead.
02/12/2018
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Microsoft on Monday indicated that its Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) security service soon will be coming to Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 clients.
02/12/2018
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
Where the Surface Pro fell short, the newer Surface Book 2 more than makes up for it.
02/12/2018
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Microsoft's principal explainer of "Windows as a Service" has a new role, and this time he'll be talking more about Microsoft's so-called "modern deployment" technologies for IT pros.
02/09/2018
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Microsoft plans to add a Standard edition when it rolls out its Skype for Business Server 2019 product this year, according to a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP).
02/09/2018
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
From Brien's perspective (floating in outer space high above Mars), Microsoft's latest efforts at melding virtual reality and augmented reality are a vast improvement over the HoloLens.
02/09/2018
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Intel offered a few words about its progress in releasing microcode updates to address Meltdown and Spectre attack methods.
02/08/2018
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In the great debate over whether the robots will save us or destroy us, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is staking out a more activist position.
02/08/2018
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Symantec and Microsoft announced a collaborative effort on Wednesday that has brought Symantec Web Security Service protections to Microsoft Azure and Office 365 services.
02/07/2018
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Microsoft made it easier to publish applications using the Azure Active Directory (AD) Application Proxy service, and also added Business to Consumer (B2C) features this week.
02/07/2018
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Now that Windows 10 has surpassed Windows 7 for the first time in global usage statistics, it's not just the latest round of Microsoft's reigning OS passing the torch to the newest release.
02/07/2018