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Microsoft this week announced progress with Skype Room Systems (SRS) products built by its hardware partners.
10/27/2017
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Microsoft on Thursday reported $24.5 billion in revenues for its first FY18 quarter, more than $1 billion higher than analysts had forecast.
10/26/2017
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Microsoft this week gave assurances that phones certified to work with its Skype for Business Online service will continue to work when capabilities get transitioned over to the Microsoft Teams service.
10/26/2017
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Using MAMR technology, the high-capacity hard drive disks will be perfectly suited for enterprise datacenters.
10/26/2017
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Microsoft is no longer manufacturing Kinect cameras, according to a press account today, citing Microsoft officials.
10/25/2017
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A new partnership between Cisco and Google will enable workloads to run both on-premises on engineered Cisco UCS hyper-converged infrastructure and the public Google Cloud Platform service.
10/25/2017
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Microsoft today described some of its upcoming roadmap milestones for bringing Skype for Business capabilities into Microsoft Teams.
10/24/2017
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Microsoft today announced previews of new services aimed at making Kubernetes on Azure easier to manage for developers and IT pros.
10/24/2017
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Microsoft issued a reminder today that IT pros should switch Azure Active Directory conditional access policies that were created using the "classic" Azure portal to policies supported by the new Azure Portal.
10/23/2017
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Building on its promise to bring supercomputing capabilities to Azure, Microsoft and Cray are partnering to offer Cray's supercomputers and storage systems in the cloud for the first time.
10/23/2017
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Windows Server version 1709, released earlier this week, doesn't include Microsoft's highly touted Storage Spaces Direct capability.
10/20/2017
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Microsoft certifies Intel's new Xeon Scalable Processor platform for Azure Stack, clearing a key milestone for deployment of the appliances for workloads requiring high-performance, density and future expansion.
10/20/2017
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Microsoft this week said it was announcing the "general availability of Visio Online, including two new subscription plans: Visio Online Plan 1 and Visio Online Plan 2," according to a Microsoft spokesperson, via e-mail.
10/19/2017
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
Create general or custom alerts when configuration changes have been made in Office 365.
10/19/2017
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Microsoft on Tuesday released Windows Server version 1709, its first "semiannual channel" release for organizations wanting to get new operating system releases at a faster pace.
10/18/2017
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Microsoft today released the Windows 10 fall creators update, which is broadly available.
10/17/2017
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Microsoft's latest operating system update, released today, contains plenty for IT pros.
10/17/2017
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Windows 10 Fall Creators Update comes with the announcement of the new Surface Book 2, Microsoft's most powerful PC to date, available Nov. 16.
10/17/2017
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In-Depth
Admins should benefit from the recent integration of Intune with the Azure portal and support for conditional access, but should prepare to encounter some migration issues.
10/17/2017
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On Monday Adobe alerted the public that attackers are taking advantage of a remote code execution security vulnerability in its Flash platform in Web browsers.
10/17/2017
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Microsoft announced today that its Azure infrastructure is being used by software security firm Symantec Corp.
10/16/2017
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The U.S. Supreme Court today ordered a review of an appellate court's ruling in favor of Microsoft in a search-warrant case involving Microsoft's cloud services.
10/16/2017
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Security researchers on Monday revealed a major flaw in the widely used wireless network protocol WPA2.
10/16/2017
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Few businesses leaders have been more outspoken than Microsoft President Brad Smith, backed by his boss CEO Satya Nadella, himself an immigrant, about Trump's move to end DACA.
10/16/2017
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A Dutch regulatory authority has found that Microsoft's privacy measures in the Home and Pro editions of the Windows 10 "anniversary update" and the "creators update" operating system editions are violating the country's privacy law.
10/13/2017
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Public preview of Java runtime for Microsoft Azure Functions released at last week's JavaOne conference.
10/13/2017
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Windows Insider
The "Calvin & Hobbes" cartoon's imaginary game of making the rules up as you go is a near-perfect representation of what modern IT has become.
10/13/2017
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Microsoft will be delivering major Windows and Linux Console changes with the arrival of the Windows 10 "fall creators update" next week.
10/12/2017
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
Outlook's new LinkedIn hooks will help personalize e-mails to those you might not know too much about.
10/12/2017
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Microsoft this week explained a bit more about the effects of using System Center Configuration Manager with Windows Update for Business deferral policies.
10/11/2017
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Organizations using Microsoft's Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) tool to control Windows client updates may have ended up with dead PCs this week after a Microsoft release mistake.
10/11/2017
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Reports that HP will not continue manufacturing its Elite x3 Windows-based phone appear to have triggered Microsoft's official confirmation that it has no further plans to add new Windows Mobile operating system features for Windows Phone devices.
10/11/2017
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Microsoft exec Joe Belfiore on Sunday sent a tweet that signaled the end for Windows 10 Mobile.
10/10/2017
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Microsoft will make it a little easier to read update log files with the release of the Windows 10 "fall creators update" (version 1709).
10/10/2017
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In-Depth
Now that using multiple devices, apps and OSes is ubiquitous in the workplace, new unified endpoint management tools are introducing a common approach to configuration, security and administration.
10/10/2017
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Microsoft is highlighting three Azure Active Directory previews for controlling user access to network resources.
10/09/2017
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Microsoft's progress with its Advanced Threat Protection services seemed to be a unifying theme at Ignite.
10/06/2017
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Microsoft today announced that the final service pack for SQL Server 2012 is now available for download.
10/06/2017
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In-Depth
Microsoft's Power BI Premium brings new data visualization and analytics capabilities, as well as feature changes across all license tiers.
10/06/2017
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Amazon Web Services announced that General Electric has chosen AWS as it's "preferred cloud provider."
10/06/2017
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The Microsoft Edge browser is coming in preview form to iOS- and Android-based devices, according to a Microsoft announcement today.
10/05/2017
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
While there are many tools out there that will help you keep on top of your tasks and assignments, Office 365 Planner integrates useful collaboration tools in its offering.
10/05/2017
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Microsoft is developing an appliance to physically transfer large volumes of data from customer environments to its cloud.
10/04/2017
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Microsoft and NetApp to deliver native version of its Data ONTAP enterprise network file system to Azure and will offer added protection of Office 365 data.
10/04/2017
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Microsoft hasn't said much about SharePoint Server 2019, except that a preview is expected to arrive in mid-2018.
10/03/2017
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Microsoft's Windows 10 deployment direction dispenses with the traditional imaging process and instead relies on Azure Active Directory domain joins, mobile device management (MDM) and self-provisioning by end users.
10/03/2017
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Attendees arriving at large NetApp conference for IT pros found event hotel Mandalay Bay under lockdown and yesterday’s sessions were cancelled, though the event is scheduled to resume today.
10/02/2017
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In-Depth
See the destructive path of an intentional ransomware exploit in a lab environment consisting of Linux and Windows workstations and servers, and learn how implementing some simple steps will ensure you can recover from such an attack.
10/02/2017
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Microsoft Cloud App Security will get a new capability that adds conditional access protections to software-as-a-service applications.
09/29/2017
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Microsoft announced this week that a faster update release pace will be coming to its newly announced SQL Server 2017 product.
09/29/2017