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Joey on SQL Server
It's not 2008 anymore. Joey details the ins and outs of upgrading these aging Microsoft servers, including licensing changes, support options and potential pitfalls.
08/07/2019
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In an effort to get more on-premises data warehouses onto its Azure cloud, Microsoft has launched a migration initiative in partnership with Informatica.
08/06/2019
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News
Concerns about ethics and security aside, spending around machine learning is poised to grow sharply over the next five years.
08/06/2019
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
In another example of "everything old is new again," you can now recapture that old-school Microsoft feeling without even a single floppy disk drive.
08/05/2019
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News
Microsoft has announced a preview of a new service that gives organizations access to unshared or "dedicated" Azure hardware infrastructure for hosting their workloads on Azure virtual machines.
08/01/2019
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
The final part of Brien's Hyper-V upgrade involves using a 10GbE connection for replication traffic -- without having access to enterprise-class hardware.
08/01/2019
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News
Microsoft recently published a new version of its service-level agreement (SLA) for Azure SQL Database, adding uptime perks for organizations that use the "Business Critical" tier.
08/01/2019
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News
Microsoft is planning to end its Skype for Business Online service on July 31, 2021, encouraging customers to use the Microsoft Teams service instead.
07/30/2019
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
The first half of Brien's project to replace his outdated Hyper-V servers took nearly 10 days and multiple replication failures. Here's what went wrong and how he fixed it.
07/30/2019
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News
Microsoft on Monday announced the acquisition of BlueTalon, a provider of data governance and compliance solutions.
07/29/2019
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News
Microsoft this week announced the availability of a service availability notifications preview for some Power BI subscribers, as well as coming general Power BI user experience changes.
07/25/2019
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News
Microsoft on Wednesday "accidentally released" Windows 10 build 18947 to a "limited number of Windows Insiders."
07/25/2019
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
In a move that will be well-received by many users, Microsoft has lifted some key restrictions on how companies can brand their Office 365 environments.
07/25/2019
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News
In a linguistic simplification of sorts, Microsoft has jettisoned the object of the preposition, as well as the preposition itself and even the article of the preposition, from its formerly known "Office on the Web" product branding.
07/24/2019
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Datacenter Trends
Now in the next phase of expansion, the Equinix ECX Fabric service is bringing secure datacenter cloud connections to even more businesses around the world.
07/24/2019
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News
Microsoft announced on Tuesday that the Azure Active Directory (AD) Proxy service now works with applications that use the Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) 2.0 for user authentications.
07/23/2019
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
The new Sandbox feature in Windows 10 lets organizations run potentially risky executables in isolation, without having to set up a virtual machine.
07/23/2019
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News
Microsoft plans to ease the Office 365 app installation experience for end users, starting as early as next month, for organizations using some monthly subscription plans, according to a Monday announcement.
07/22/2019