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Microsoft denies last month's firmware patch, aimed at fixing the longstanding battery drain problems affecting its Surface Pro 3 tablet PCs, have made the problem worse.
09/23/2016
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Windows Insider
Microsoft's PC/tablet hybrid has a serious battery issue -- an issue Microsoft refuses to properly acknowledge.
09/23/2016
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News
Yahoo's network has been hacked, and the information from "at least 500 million user accounts" was stolen.
09/22/2016
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News
Microsoft this week announced some steps to address problems in getting Windows 10 version 1607 via the Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) management solution.
09/22/2016
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
With the direction Microsoft has been going under Nadella, look for third-party partnerships to be a big theme at next week's show.
09/22/2016
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Navigate the uncharted Nano Server deployment waters with this step-by-step guide.
09/21/2016
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News
Microsoft issued an update this week that will finally get rid of the "Get Windows App."
09/21/2016
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While Azure Stack is Microsoft's future private cloud-in-box, some organizations are finding the company's Windows Azure Pack as a viable solution.
09/21/2016
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News
Microsoft released cumulative updates to Exchange Server 2016 and Exchange Server 2013 this month.
09/20/2016
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
Keep an eye on all your online shopping goodies through Office 365.
09/20/2016
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In-Depth
New features such as the Antimalware Scan Interface, Virtualization-Based Security and threat analytics are making Windows much more difficult to exploit, but hackers and researchers demonstrate it's still not impossible.
09/20/2016
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News
Microsoft is appealing to organizations to stop using Server Message Block (SMB) version 1.
09/19/2016
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Oracle's CTO Larry Ellison kicks off company's annual OpenWord conference with a "cloud-first" promise on the delivery new products and services.
09/19/2016
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Here's all the info you need before beginning to deploy Microsoft's latest server configuration.
09/19/2016
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News
Microsoft this week offered some good news, along with some bad news, about Windows Server Update Services 3.0 Service Pack 2.
09/16/2016
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News
Microsoft announced this week that it's planning to initiate a new limited-time blocking scheme for out-of-date Adobe Flash ActiveX used in its Internet Explorer 11 browser.
09/16/2016
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Now that it's liberated from Symantec, data protection provider Veritas charts out a path looking beyond just DR and backup and recovery into information and hyper-scale hybrid cloud-based content management.
09/16/2016
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Recall earlier scripts to save a ton of time.
09/16/2016
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News
Microsoft today initiated a blocking process to address potential "account overlap" issues when end users sign up to access Microsoft services.
09/15/2016
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Reaction to Microsoft's new SharePoint Framework is mixed, though mostly positive because it coexists with old development models.
09/15/2016
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News
Microsoft and Ping Identity announced a partnership today that could help organizations that need to authenticate users that are trying to access older ("legacy") Web applications.
09/14/2016
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
Creating a partnership that strives for practical usability and keeps nagging reminders to a minimum should be the goal.
09/14/2016
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News
Microsoft will be broadening discussion of its Upgrade Analytics preview solution by making its technical team available for questions, starting this week.
09/13/2016
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News
Microsoft plans to show off a new preview of Service Fabric on Linux at its Ignite conference, starting on Sept. 26.
09/13/2016
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News
Microsoft unveiled a preview today of its Azure portal's new Azure Active Directory features for administrators.
09/12/2016
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While the update isn't a groundbreaking next step for Microsoft's latest OS, it did a handful of smaller changes that improve usability.
09/12/2016
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News
Microsoft on Friday offered advice for organizations using System Center Configuration Manager when they are considering upgrading to Windows 10 version 1607.
09/09/2016
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Windows Insider
Even though Microsoft's large acquisition track record has been spotty, at best, the latest big buy could end in a huge win for the company.
09/09/2016
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Intel's plan to divest the McAfee Security business aims to let the CPU giant focus on its core business and emerging technologies, but company will confront a competitive landscape and a founder challenge.
09/09/2016
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News
Microsoft has started turning on a new guest capability in Office 365 groups.
09/08/2016
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News
Microsoft plans to commercially offer its Azure Active Directory Identity Protection service and its Azure Active Directory Privileged Identity Management service, starting on Sept. 15.
09/08/2016
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In-Depth
The forthcoming release of System Center Operations Manager 2016 will provide administrators with scheduled maintenance, improved support for management packs, alert tuning and support for the new Windows Server Nano configuration option.
09/08/2016
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News
Microsoft's Access database management software, as offered through Office 365 service plans, now supports the dBase file format, yet again.
09/07/2016
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EMC and a controlling stake in VMware are now part of Dell Technologies.
09/07/2016
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News
Microsoft today announced the opening of new datacenters in the United Kingdom.
09/07/2016
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News
Microsoft announced this month that it will stop providing updates for its SmartScreen e-mail spam filters on Nov. 1.
09/06/2016
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News
Microsoft late last week announced that its cloud-based security solution, Advanced Threat Analytics (ATA) version 1.7, is now available.
09/06/2016
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In-Depth
The release of Windows Server 2016 will bring a new option of building apps based on micro-services that run in Docker and other standard containers. Does that portend the end of the VM?
09/06/2016
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News
Microsoft is now giving an all-clear signal, of sorts, with regard to PowerShell issues caused by a late August Windows 10 update release.
09/01/2016
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News
Some new SharePoint Online and Office 365 Groups enhancements for end users are coming soon, Microsoft announced this week.
09/01/2016
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News
Microsoft this week reiterated its adapt-or-die message to IT pros responsible for keeping Windows clients and servers updated and patched.
08/31/2016
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New capabilities coming to the AirWatch MDM platform will include VMware's new Unified Endpoint Management approach to Windows 10 configuration deployment, security and lifecycle management.
08/31/2016
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In-Depth
Skype for Business Server and the new Cloud PBX option in Office 365 are gradually becoming viable alternatives to traditional telephone systems, but many key features are still under development.
08/31/2016
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News
Microsoft is issuing a software patch for Surface Pro 3 devices with battery drain issues.
08/30/2016
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News
Microsoft will be swapping out the Intune Groups capability in its Intune mobile management service for its Azure Active Directory Groups approach, starting next month.
08/30/2016
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In-Depth
Microsoft's decision to deliver the first iteration of Azure Stack only to engineered systems from Dell, HPE and Lenovo surprised some customers and partners, but the company believes it will ensure a more consistent and reliable experience.
08/30/2016
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VMware unveiled its new Cross-Cloud services -- SaaS-based tools to enable organizations to deploy, secure and manage applications and workloads across Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, the Google Cloud Platform and IBM Cloud.
08/29/2016
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In-Depth
The on-premises and cloud editions of Skype for Business Server and the Cloud PBX are promising and less-expensive alternatives to traditional phone systems, but come in a complex array of options and require integration.
08/29/2016
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Veeam aims to capitalize on the growth of Microsoft's Office 365 and the hybrid cloud.
08/26/2016
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Foley on Microsoft
Microsoft has bungled most of its largest acquisitions, but Redmond is determined not to see its $8.5 billion acquisition of Skype become one of them.
08/26/2016