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Microsoft has somewhat altered its plans to permit end users to buy Power Platform products outside of IT controls, according to a Thursday update to its self-service purchase FAQ.
11/01/2019
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Microsoft is replacing its TechNet and MSDN forums with a new site, called "Microsoft Q&A," with completion planned for "mid-2020."
10/31/2019
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The Microsoft Teams collaboration application for Office 365 subscribers is starting to get more file access and sharing capabilities derived from SharePoint Online, Microsoft announced on Wednesday.
10/31/2019
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
Creating a shared virtual hard disk is a relatively easy process. Brien walks you through it.
10/30/2019
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Microsoft is planning a "general availability" release of PowerShell 7 for production environments sometime in January.
10/29/2019
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Microsoft on Monday announced new modified group expiration controls for Office 365, allowing groups to automatically renew if there's been user activity.
10/28/2019
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One of the biggest government contract events in, well, ever, happened Friday when Microsoft was named the winner of JEDI, the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure deal.
10/28/2019
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Microsoft on Monday announced that its "experts on demand" security consulting service, part of its Threat Experts service, has reached the "general availability" (GA) commercial-release stage.
10/28/2019
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Microsoft on Monday set a February 2020 general availability date for Azure Sphere and revealed a handful of new features for Azure IoT Central among a raft of Internet of Things (IoT) announcements.
10/28/2019
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
While you wait for PowerShell to add support for ternary operators, here's a method you can use now to evaluate Boolean conditions without the need to write If – Then – Else statements.
10/28/2019
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The number of large datacenters around the globe operated by hyperscale providers grew to 504 in the third quarter, which is triple their number at the beginning of 2013.
10/25/2019
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Organizations purchasing Microsoft 365 subscription licenses can easily face licensing compliance issues, upping their costs.
10/24/2019
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
Instead of viewing data in a static list, use PowerShell's grid view capability to manipulate how your data is displayed.
10/24/2019
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Microsoft on Monday announced that it will permit Power Platform purchasing next month that'll be apart from typical IT departmental controls.
10/23/2019
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Microsoft is off to a strong start in the first quarter of its fiscal 2020, beating Wall Street expectations as cloud products continued to perform well and the PC business benefitted from end-of-life deadlines for Windows 7.
10/23/2019
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Microsoft and its hardware partners recently described new "Secured-core" PCs, which add protections against firmware-based attacks.
10/22/2019
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
Backups are the only guaranteed way to save your data after a ransomware attack. Here's how to make sure your backup strategy has ransomware mitigation built right in.
10/22/2019
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Microsoft announced on Monday that it bought Mover to help organizations migrate data and shift to using Microsoft 365 services.
10/21/2019
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Oracle co-CEO and former Hewlett-Packard chief executive Mark Hurd died last Friday at the age of 62 from unspecified causes.
10/21/2019
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SAP, a major player in the enterprise application software space, is partnering with Microsoft to entice more customers to move their on-premises implementations to the Azure cloud.
10/21/2019
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Microsoft this week described installation instructions for volume licensing users of Windows 7 Service Pack 1 to get Extended Security Updates (ESU) activated on PCs.
10/18/2019
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Issues affecting the Azure Active Directory service blocked customers from accessing applications early on the morning of Oct. 18 for about 2.5 hours.
10/18/2019
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
A new AI-powered feature in Office scans your e-mails and documents to help you tell one "SaaS" apart from another.
10/18/2019
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Microsoft and Alibaba Cloud on Wednesday described an Open Application Model (OAM) for Web applications.
10/17/2019
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Desktop Analytics, Microsoft's service for viewing Windows device information, is now deemed ready for use by organizations.
10/16/2019
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Does the rise of the public cloud mean the end of the enterprise datacenter? That's an oversimplification of a complex issue, according to one CEO whose company specializes in hyperscale, modular datacenters.
10/16/2019
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
How a new capability is succeeding where Cortana failed at taming the Outlook beast.
10/16/2019
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Microsoft's Internet of Things (IoT) product line is continuing to grow, with a few new developments highlighted this week.
10/15/2019
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The Microsoft Defender Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) E5 subscription plan now has an optional "tamper protection" security feature, Microsoft announced on Monday.
10/14/2019
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
Microsoft recently added a new optical character recognition feature to Excel that lets users import data from a photograph taken from a smartphone. Here's how to use it.
10/14/2019
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Microsoft is working on adding capabilities to its Microsoft Authenticator app to help defeat security breaches enabled by advanced attack techniques, including phishing and man-in-the-middle methods.
10/11/2019
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
If you need to generate Hyper-V inventory reports but don't want the hassle of writing your own custom PowerShell script, here is a shortcut.
10/11/2019
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Microsoft this week announced a couple of noteworthy previews of new capabilities for IT pros using the Azure Active Directory identity and access management service.
10/10/2019
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An effort to help enterprise organizations better patch their software will be "kicking off soon," according to a Wednesday Microsoft announcement.
10/09/2019
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In-Depth
How many of these data security offenses is your organization guilty of, and how can you correct them? Play the Data Breach Game and find out.
10/09/2019
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Pivotal Software and Microsoft introduced a private preview of Azure Spring Cloud on Tuesday.
10/09/2019
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October is not looking like it's a too frightful of a patch month, with 60 software vulnerabilities getting addressed in Microsoft's "update Tuesday" security release.
10/08/2019
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Microsoft recently updated its SharePoint Server migration tool and issued an updated diagnostic tool for assessing SharePoint Server 2019 and SharePoint Server 2016 environments.
10/07/2019
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
The cloud has long been touted as the future of computing. But for some organizations, cloud computing has only added more complexity and not enough cost-savings.
10/07/2019
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Microsoft's OneDrive cloud-based storage service for consumers now has a new security feature for file storage, Microsoft announced last week.
10/04/2019
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
Microsoft's "automatic virtual machine activation" feature lets you spin up a short-lived VM without wasting a license key. Here's how to use it.
10/03/2019
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Microsoft showcased its coming Surface PC and device innovations during a New York City presentation.
10/02/2019
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Microsoft announced on Tuesday that its Extended Security Updates program for Windows 7 Service Pack 1 users won't be restricted to organizations that made their Windows purchases through its volume licensing offerings.
10/01/2019
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
While useful in plenty of ways, Microsoft's task-management service doesn't have a feature to manage repeating tasks. The solution? Create a "template plan."
10/01/2019
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Microsoft Defender Advanced Threat Protection's endpoint detection and response capability is now at "general availability" commercial-release status for users of Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1.
09/30/2019
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Microsoft on Monday announced the worldwide "general availability" of its new Windows Virtual Desktop service.
09/30/2019
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Microsoft recently elaborated on how its machine learning algorithms help ensure that Windows 10 feature upgrades will be successful.
09/27/2019
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
Microsoft is expected to unveil new Surface hardware next week, but unless a standalone Surface Studio monitor is one of them, it might be time to consider some of the other (cheaper) options from its OEM partners.
09/27/2019
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IT spending likely will increase in 2020 because of a need to carry out infrastructure upgrades and address security concerns, according to a Spiceworks study published this week.
09/26/2019
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There's been a slight speedbump in the steady drive by hyperscale service providers toward ever more compute, storage and networking gear in their datacenters.
09/26/2019