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Posey's Tips & Tricks
Natively integrated into Windows Server, the Best Practices Analyzer is a key tool for assessing how much (or how little) your Hyper-V configurations align with Microsoft's recommendations.
02/13/2020
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This week, Microsoft announced a bunch of product enhancement milestones for users of Office 365 applications.
02/12/2020
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Participants in Microsoft's Extended Security Updates (ESU) program for out-of-support Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 machines faced new installation requirements on Tuesday.
02/12/2020
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Microsoft has reversed course on its plan to deliver an extension to Office 365 ProPlus users that would switch their Chrome and Firefox browser search engines to Bing.
02/11/2020
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
While Hyper-V doesn't have a tool that controls the order in which VMs boot up, there are some workarounds available, some of them involving PowerShell.
02/11/2020
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Coming changes to the Microsoft Secure Score security assessment service for organizations will make it a "killer productivity app for security administrators," Microsoft promised in a Monday announcement.
02/10/2020
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Joey on SQL Server
There are plenty of ways to get the most out of SQL Server without just upgrading to the latest version. For database admins working with older (maybe much older) SQL Server systems, here are four ways to make life easier.
02/10/2020
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Google is planning to issue warnings to Chrome browser users about potentially insecure content that can get downloaded when visiting Web sites.
02/07/2020
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
While imperfect, the HoloLens 2 is a dramatic improvement over its predecessor. Brien details where the new mixed-reality headset excels and where it still falls short.
02/07/2020
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Microsoft described progress on its coming PowerShell Secrets Management Module in a Thursday announcement.
02/06/2020
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The biggest cloud security issue plaguing organizations is misconfigurations, according to the National Security Agency (NSA), which recently published a security report titled "Mitigating Cloud Vulnerabilities."
02/05/2020
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Microsoft announced on Wednesday that its Backup Explorer tool for Azure services is available as a preview.
02/05/2020
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
Has Brien finally found a viable alternative to Microsoft's cool but pricey drafting table of a PC? Here's how the Dell Canvas stacks up against the second-generation Surface Studio.
02/05/2020
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Microsoft expects to delay enforcement of configuration changes to the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) until the second half of this year, according to a Tuesday update to Security Advisory ADV190023.
02/04/2020
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Microsoft on Tuesday announced a preview of Azure Active Directory conditional access policies for Office 365 applications.
02/04/2020
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A recent endpoint security survey of 671 IT pros suggested that most organizations have been attacked and their confidence in the effectiveness of anti-virus protections continues to be low.
02/03/2020
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
Microsoft's new browser seems zippier than its predecessor, but while it has retained one of Brien's most-used features, it also seems to have done away with another.
02/03/2020
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Google is now previewing Kubernetes orchestration support for Windows Server containers housed on the Google Cloud Platform (GCP), according to a Thursday announcement.
01/31/2020