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Microsoft announced on Friday that an update will be arriving this month to address a Windows 10 "dual-scan" update problem for users of Windows Server Update Services.
08/07/2017
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The company must now aim for strong cloud gains that doesn't come at the cost of its legacy business.
08/07/2017
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News
SharePoint is getting mobile application support for the new Communication Site feature, along with list improvements, Microsoft announced this week.
08/04/2017
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Windows Insider
The Windows 10 Fall Creators Update will be packed with the kind of security features that could really help small businesses, but they'll have to become enterprise customers.
08/04/2017
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Following a targeted brute force attack on Office 365 accounts, a new survey shows growing concerns about cyberespionage campaigns, with a majority who believe the culprits are those looking to steal critical information.
08/04/2017
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News
Microsoft recently announced some coming Office 365 Teams improvements, including IT administrative controls over the "third-party" applications.
08/03/2017
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Foley on Microsoft
With its July reorg, Microsoft finally has gone 'round the Digital Transformation bend.
08/03/2017
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News
Microsoft this week rolled out the ability to permit or block guest access to Office 365 groups, but the feature appears to be at a rudimentary test level.
08/02/2017
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Microsoft this week offered yet another preview of a new Operations Management Suite (OMS) feature, this time focused on checking the security compliance of Windows Web servers.
08/02/2017
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Microsoft 365 Business -- the company's licensing package aimed at small business -- has been released as a public preview.
08/02/2017
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News
Microsoft is previewing yet another sign-in experience for Azure Active Directory and Microsoft account users, giving organizations notice of changes that will get established this fall.
08/02/2017
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
The issue might lie with juggling multiple Hyper-V virtual machine unique security identifiers.
08/02/2017
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News
Microsoft announced two Surface computer leasing plans on Tuesday, one for small and medium businesses, and another for students.
08/01/2017
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Microsoft this week released a public preview of Device Health, a new service that checks Windows 10 client devices for crashes and driver issues.
08/01/2017
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Microsoft released System Center Configuration Manager update 1706 last week, adding new management capabilities.
07/31/2017
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Keyboard with fingerprint reader extends Windows Hello to all PCs.
07/31/2017
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In-Depth
The Samsung Android-based Galaxy S8 smartphone is available with a new peripheral that will let it function like a virtual Windows desktop running Office 365 natively.
07/31/2017
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News
Microsoft plans to advance the Windows Subsystem for Linux from its current beta-test phase with the "fall creators update" version of Windows 10.
07/28/2017
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News
Organizations with Enterprise Agreements (EA) should consider negotiating protections or special discounts up front to avoid compliance issues likely associated with Microsoft's cloud services.
07/28/2017
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
The ability to perform group checkpoints and rollbacks will make a good feature truly great.
07/28/2017
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News
Microsoft today suggested that the Windows 10 creators update was "fully available" worldwide for commercial deployment.
07/27/2017
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Microsoft's new Azure Container Instances goes up the infrastructure stack, eliminating the need to provision and manage virtual machines when deploying containers.
07/27/2017
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
The feature allows you to create customizable forms or quizzes with multiple-choice questions.
07/27/2017
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Microsoft released the latest version of its Advanced Threat Analytics forensic security solution this week.
07/26/2017
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Microsoft's new Azure Container Instances and Kubernetes orchestration connector will allow much faster deployment and management of containers by eliminating the need to manage VMs.
07/26/2017
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News
Adobe will stop supporting its Flash Player browser plug-in by the end of 2020, the company announced today.
07/25/2017
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Despite a number of obituaries for Microsoft's Paint, the company said its 32-year-old graphics, illustration and photo editing tool isn't completely going away.
07/25/2017
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In-Depth
Learn how to configure and protect cloud-based apps in Azure.
07/25/2017
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News
Windows PowerShell 2.0 will be one of the features that won't survive when Microsoft releases the Windows 10 "fall creators update."
07/24/2017
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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella told investors that SharePoint Online usage nearly doubled last quarter and while that's a strong sign it's unclear how that measures in proportion with on-premises and hybrid infrastructure implementations.
07/24/2017
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News
Applied Voice and Speech Technologies is coming to the rescue following Microsoft's announcement that it plans to drop session border control support for PBX systems.
07/21/2017
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Microsoft reported that commercial sales of Office 365 for the first time have exceeded revenues from traditional software licenses.
07/21/2017
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In-Depth
The new Azure Active Directory B2B aims to simplify how administrators offer controlled access to partners, suppliers and customers.
07/21/2017
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Microsoft beat analyst forecasts for Q4 of its 2017 fiscal year thanks to strong Azure revenue growth.
07/20/2017
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Microsoft disclosed plans today to extend Windows 10 support to machines running Intel's "Clover Trail" Atom processors, but only via the Windows 10 "anniversary update," not the current "creators update."
07/20/2017
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In-Depth
A senior product manager on Microsoft's Windows Server engineering team tells how the Windows Server Software Defined program works.
07/19/2017
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DataON, Fujitsu, HPE, Lenovo, QCT and Supermicro are the first to offer storage and hyper-converged systems based on Microsoft's new Windows Server Software-Defined (WSSD) program.
07/19/2017
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A few licensing tidbits, and other Microsoft product changes, are showing up in obscure places.
07/18/2017
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The company is looking to take datacenter security into the future by making sure data is secure at every point.
07/18/2017
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In-Depth
The upcoming release of the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update, the fourth in two years, could be the most significant to date, applying the intelligence of the Microsoft Graph across PCs and non-Windows devices.
07/18/2017
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News
Microsoft on Monday announced that the first release candidate for SQL Server 2017 is now available to the public.
07/18/2017
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News
Microsoft recently explained its Windows PowerShell roadmap plans, which will increasingly focus on PowerShell Core, going forward.
07/17/2017
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
Here's a test drive on the newest addition to Microsoft's Office 365 service, along with a look at what is different from its current streaming video service.
07/17/2017
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Microsoft this week released its first preview build of Windows Server 2016 to its Windows Insider Program testers.
07/14/2017
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This month's Redmond magazine cover story exploring Microsoft's fast-track blockchain strategy came to life this week as two leaders of the company's initiative participated in a panel discussion at the Inspire partner conference in Washington, D.C.
07/14/2017
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In-Depth
Since bringing blockchain tools and distributed ledgers to its Azure cloud, Microsoft's Ethereum-based framework has begun evolving rapidly with three core components either in preview or under development.
07/14/2017
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Microsoft this week offered a proposal to jumpstart rural broadband access in the United States, but the plan was immediately condemned by the National Association of Broadcasters.
07/13/2017
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News
Microsoft is starting to deliver an intelligent search capability that will make it easier to find photos of drawings, whiteboards, signs and receipts that get stored using the OneDrive cloud storage service.
07/12/2017
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Microsoft's first Azure Stack are set for release from Dell EMC, HPE and Lenovo in September with initial architecture and pricing now available.
07/12/2017
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News
After less than two years as CEO of Citrix, Kirill Tatarionov is leaving the company.
07/12/2017