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Microsoft this week described some Office 365 improvements that are coming to subscribers.
12/01/2017
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Microsoft's latest Teams development efforts have delivered some management perks for IT pros, plus end user improvements.
11/30/2017
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Microsoft Edge apps for Android and iOS devices are now out of preview, Microsoft announced today.
11/30/2017
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
With help from the Microsoft Office Services Sign-In Assistant, you can delay or pause synchronizations in Office 365.
11/30/2017
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HPE sets its sights on bringing artificial intelligence to the datacenter, while the multitenant datacenter market is poised to grow thanks to the innovations of green technology.
11/30/2017
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Microsoft this week previewed Azure Location Based Services for adding geographical information to apps.
11/29/2017
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Apple is issuing a patch today for macOS High Sierra users that fixes a major password-bypass flaw in that operating system.
11/29/2017
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The Box collaboration service is now available in the Microsoft Azure cloud, suited for external collaboration, Office 365 integration and for organizations with data sovereignty needs.
11/29/2017
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Microsoft provided an explanation this month for an apparent security flaw in Address Space Layout Randomization, a Windows protection scheme.
11/28/2017
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Microsoft and SAP have expanded their 20-year partnership by engineering SAP's cloud and enterprise resource planning (ERP) solutions to run on Microsoft Azure datacenter infrastructure.
11/28/2017
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Microsoft this month provoked VMware by announcing a preview of a "bare metal" VMware stack that runs on Microsoft Azure hardware.
11/27/2017
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The acquisition of Skyhigh Networks aims to fill a key void in McAfee's security portfolio, which will take on Symantec, Cisco, Netskope, Microsoft and others.
11/27/2017
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In-Depth
In his first book as CEO, Satya Nadella reveals much about what motivates him as a leader, and how he wants to use Microsoft's existing strengths to vault to new heights.
11/27/2017
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Microsoft is joining the MariaDB open source project as a platinum sponsor and has plans for a release of the relational database platform as an Azure service.
11/20/2017
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Independent consultancy Directions on Microsoft offered guidance this week on Skype for Business, and how organizations could be affected by Microsoft's plans to shift its capabilities into Teams.
11/17/2017
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Microsoft today released a preview of Compliance Manager, a new dashboard tool designed to show the regulatory compliance status of Microsoft's controls for its solutions, as well as the status of the controls used in customer environments.
11/16/2017
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Visual Studio Live Share will let dev teams interactively share code to edit and debug, troubleshoot, iterate or optimize apps, along with other tools previewed.
11/16/2017
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Azure Cloud Shell now supports the Linux-based Bash command-line interface (CLI), Microsoft announced this week.
11/16/2017
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In-Depth
Microsoft outlined what it leaned with VSTS and provided some DevOp tips and tricks to the audience at this year's Live! 360.
11/16/2017
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The Microsoft Intune mobile management service can now include security protections for Android devices enabled by Google Play Protect services.
11/15/2017
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Apache Spark creator Databricks and Microsoft have joined together to build a streaming analytics platform for machine learning, AI and geodistributed graph processing.
11/15/2017
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In-Depth
A refreshed technology portfolio and roadmap revealed at Ignite suggests Satya Nadella's hybrid cloud, modern workspace management and intelligent communications vision is blooming.
11/15/2017
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When looking at Microsoft's recent enhancements to business intelligence platforms, database administrators may scratch their heads that user interfaces look like they're getting dumbed down.
11/15/2017
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Azure Active Directory now supports the setting of macOS device conditional access policies using Microsoft Intune, Microsoft announced on Tuesday.
11/14/2017
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Microsoft today announced that it has extended the support time available for users of the Enterprise and Education editions of Windows 10 version 1511 by about six months.
11/14/2017
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Microsoft announced a preview of Skype Professional Account this week, which adds scheduling and billing tools for Skype consumer service users who leverage it for small business purposes.
11/14/2017
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Microsoft announced a preview of a new Azure ExpressRoute monitoring capability last week.
11/13/2017
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Microsoft today offered a snapshot of its Azure Active Directory service and how organizations are using it, based on October stats.
11/13/2017
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A survey by the Cloud Foundry Foundation shows adoption is still early but has accelerated this year, among those who are embracing it because of its promise to provide portability across multiple clouds.
11/13/2017
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In-Depth
Many large enterprises are modernizing their businesses with Cloud Foundry, a PaaS environment that's become popular for DevOps, multi-platform runtimes, back-end services and multi-cloud configurations. Here's how it works.
11/13/2017
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System Center version 1711 preview is now available for download, Microsoft announced this week.
11/09/2017
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
While the app has potential to be a great way to keep on top of tasks, it needs some improvements.
11/09/2017
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The Project Olympus specification is now complete and being used in product designs by hardware vendors, Microsoft announced today.
11/08/2017
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Microsoft today announced partnerships with Bitdefender, Lookout and Ziften to integrate their threat protection services into the Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) service.
11/08/2017
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Nearly two months after Equifax revealed perhaps the worst breach of consumer data to date, more revelations of incompetence emerge, and yet the only ones who pay the price are the customers.
11/08/2017
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Microsoft demonstrated today how its "free" Windows Analytics tools can support getting ready for Windows 10 deployments.
11/07/2017
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In-Depth
The new service aims to make Enterprise Mobility + Security (EMS) more appealing than ever.
11/07/2017
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Most organizations (82 percent) typically use the premises-installed Microsoft Office productivity suite products, according to an industry survey of 1,168 IT pros.
11/06/2017
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At last week's PASS Summit, Microsoft introduced its new SQL Operations Studio, a lightweight tool for both database developers and administrators.
11/06/2017
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In-Depth
Microsoft recently announced a new on-premises SharePoint server release set for preview next year, but most of the details are a mystery. Microsoft MVP and SharePoint architect Oliver Wirkus shares what he hopes and expects are planned.
11/06/2017
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In-Depth
Microsoft's Michael Niehaus and Nathan Mercer field some questions on the status of Windows and highlight some of the new tech coming to the latest version of the OS.
11/03/2017
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Microsoft demonstrated the ability for its Power BI business intelligence tool to query datasets with up to 1 trillion rows, up from its current threshold of 10 billion.
11/03/2017
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Foley on Microsoft
Under CEO Satya Nadella, Microsoft increasingly has been focusing on its enterprise software and services strengths.
11/03/2017
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Microsoft today described Windows 10 Internet of Things (IoT) "fall creators update" features that were added.
11/02/2017
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Microsoft's various 2019-branded server products are planned for release in "late 2018," according to a recent talk.
11/01/2017
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The latest release of the new Microsoft 365 service includes Office 365 for Business, Windows 10 upgrades and select features of Enterprise Mobility and Security (EMS).
11/01/2017
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Microsoft's coming Surface Pro laptop with Long Term Evolution (LTE) Advanced connectivity will ship in "December 2017," the company announced today.
10/31/2017
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Windows Insider
As the threat landscape gets more complicated, one possible solution seems obvious: Deploy more third-party security software. But what happens when those programs turn out to be part of the problem?
10/31/2017
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The Microsoft Intune service, as managed using the Azure Portal, now has a new troubleshooting capability, Microsoft announced this month.
10/30/2017
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Organizations using Azure Active Directory with federation should make a configuration change to take advantage of newly added resilience improvements, Microsoft advised late last week.
10/30/2017