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It's going to be a much leaner year for the PC and smartphone markets due to the coronavirus and its effect on global supply chains.
03/02/2020
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Microsoft announced plans on Thursday to end three certification programs on June 30, 2020, and that separate exams for Windows Server 2019 and SQL Server 2019 won't be available.
02/28/2020
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Microsoft plans to update the user experience associated with its Cortana personal assistant software with the coming spring feature update of Windows 10, according to a Friday announcement.
02/28/2020
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Brien's lunar training often puts him in situations where gravity, as we Earthlings know it, doesn't exist.
02/28/2020
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The new Chromium-based Microsoft Edge browser is getting the ability to block potentially unwanted applications (PUAs), Microsoft announced on Thursday.
02/28/2020
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Applications that use IBM Power processors in "on-premises" datacenters can now be moved to Microsoft Azure datacenters via a "Skytap on Azure" service, according to Thursday announcements by both Microsoft and Skytap.
02/27/2020
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Microsoft on Wednesday warned investors that supply chain impacts from the coronavirus health emergency will put a damper on its third-quarter results.
02/26/2020
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Microsoft explained in a Wednesday announcement that it didn't actually remove Server Message Block 1 (SMB1) from Windows releases.
02/26/2020
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Microsoft on Tuesday offered more details on its plans to end Basic Authentication in Exchange Online, which will cause pain for some organizations.
02/26/2020
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
Earlier this month, Microsoft released a public preview of Windows 10X, a spinoff of the Windows 10 operating system that's designed to run on the forthcoming multiscreen Surface devices. Here's how to take it out for a spin.
02/26/2020
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Microsoft this month announced that its free Mover cloud-to-cloud migration tool is "now available to Microsoft 365 customers worldwide."
02/25/2020
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Microsoft announced that its Azure Sphere solutions for Internet of Things (IoT) devices have reached the "general availability" (GA) commercial-release stage.
02/24/2020
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
To test the Windows 10X emulator, Brien needed to figure out how to configure Hyper-V to run on a Windows 10 virtual machine. Here's how he made it work.
02/24/2020
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Google's Managed Service for Microsoft Active Directory is now a "generally available" service, according to a Thursday Google announcement.
02/21/2020
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Dell's RSA security solutions businesses, including the RSA Conference, were bought by a consortium of companies for about $2 billion, according to Tuesday announcements.
02/21/2020
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
Microsoft's Windows Insider program is invaluable for IT pros who want to test drive new Windows 10 features before the update rolls out to their entire organization. If you haven't already signed up to be an Insider, here's how to do it.
02/21/2020
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The announcements included a few "general availability" announcements, product enhancements and some partner collaborations.
02/20/2020
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Microsoft on Wednesday announced the worldwide "general availability" of its new Office App for both Android and iOS phones.
02/19/2020
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
Put this tip in the "easy but valuable" category.
02/19/2020
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Fresh off its acquisition by Insight Partners last month, Veeam is now rolling out what it's calling "the biggest release" in the company's history.
02/19/2020
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Microsoft's February security updates came with plenty of technical bumps.
02/18/2020
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A recent report documents how widespread the use of HTTPS connections is becoming in malware circles, especially for communicating back to command-and-control servers.
02/18/2020
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Mismanaged security certificates have resulted in "unplanned downtime and outages," per 73 percent of respondents in a recently published Ponemon Institute study, which polled IT security personnel.
02/14/2020
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Microsoft on Wednesday announced previews of two new Office document security protections for Office 365 E5 subscribers that aim to block malicious payloads.
02/13/2020
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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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All told, Microsoft is addressing 99 common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVEs) in this February security bundle.
02/11/2020
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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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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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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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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
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Microsoft's Surface Hub 2X conferencing devices, promised for delivery this year, could be hitting an impasse.
01/31/2020
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Welcome to a new series dedicated to Brien's spaceflight endeavors. For his inaugural post, Brien answers some of your most common questions, from what exactly he's training for to what's the deal with that human-sized centrifuge.
01/31/2020
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Microsoft offered more gritty details for IT pros deploying Extended Security Updates (ESUs) for either Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 systems in a Thursday announcement.
01/30/2020
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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has delivered a more understated -- but no less forceful -- version of Steve Ballmer's wildly enthusiastic "Developers! Developers! Developers! Developers!" outburst.
01/30/2020
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Now that you've created a shared mailbox and a SharePoint team site, Brien walks you through the steps of mail-enabling a document library using Microsoft's Power Automate tool in Office 365.
01/30/2020
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The Internet Explorer 10 browser will reach its end-of-support milestone on Feb. 11, 2020 for both Windows Server 2012 and Windows Embedded 8 Standard, Microsoft announced on Tuesday.
01/29/2020
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Microsoft beat Wall Street expectations on revenues and earnings in second quarter results released Wednesday after the close of markets.
01/29/2020