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Microsoft has set aside time to answer questions about its emerging Windows Virtual Desktop service on Wednesday of next week, according to an announcement.
08/19/2019
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AMD's high-profile EPYC 7002 launch has datacenter analysts wondering if the end of Intel's long reign is nigh.
08/19/2019
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In a bid to support its "continued contributions to open source while driving increased performance for Java workloads on Azure," Microsoft on Monday announced its acquisition of jClarity.
08/19/2019
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
Billed by Microsoft as an all-encompassing API, the Microsoft Graph plays a critical role in how developers access Microsoft's various cloud resources.
08/19/2019
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Microsoft warned this week in a Twitter post that its August security updates won't install for users of Windows 7 Service Pack 1 or Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 if those operating system lack certain March updates.
08/16/2019
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A Microsoft Teams Rooms update now lets organizations use images of physical whiteboards as a dynamic space for videoconferencing communications, although it's at the preview stage and may require having a new camera.
08/16/2019
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
What started out as a handy shortcut to your most-used Windows 10 apps has morphed into another way for Microsoft and developers to pepper you with ads.
08/16/2019
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Microsoft announced on Thursday that it now offers the Azure Ultra Disk solid-state drive (SSD) storage service commercially, or at the "general availability" stage, in a few Azure regions.
08/15/2019
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In-Depth
To know containers is to know Kubernetes, the gold standard for container orchestration and deployment. Here's an explainer for how Kubernetes works and what makes it tick.
08/14/2019
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Microsoft's August security updates address about 93 common vulnerabilities and exposures, several of which are associated with Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP).
08/13/2019
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Microsoft indicated recently that "BlueKeep" exploit code for Windows systems is now "widely available" for use by attackers.
08/12/2019
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In-Depth
What exactly is a container and what makes it different -- and in some cases better -- than a virtual machine? To answer this question, Joey explains why we ever needed containers in the first place.
08/12/2019
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
Exactly where does Microsoft cap the amount of OneDrive storage space you can give each user? As Brien explains, it depends.
08/09/2019
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To entice businesses still using Windows Server 2008 into migrating to its cloud, Microsoft is offering a big carrot: Extended Security Updates (ESU) plans at no cost.
08/08/2019
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London-based IT Lab Group announced late last month that it's now an authorized partner for the Microsoft Managed Desktop service.
08/08/2019
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Intel and Lenovo announced a multiyear collaboration agreement this week, building on their longstanding partnership in the datacenter.
08/07/2019
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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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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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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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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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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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Microsoft on Monday announced the acquisition of BlueTalon, a provider of data governance and compliance solutions.
07/29/2019
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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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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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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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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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Microsoft announced on Tuesday that the Azure Active Directory (AD) Application 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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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
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A $1 billion investment from Microsoft promises to turbocharge the efforts of research outfit OpenAI around artificial general intelligence (AGI).
07/22/2019
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Remote Desktop Protocol is an easy-to-find and popular target for remote attackers, according to a recent study conducted by Sophos.
07/19/2019
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Microsoft has enabled its Azure Monitor for Containers management product to get data from the open source Prometheus monitoring solution.
07/18/2019
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Microsoft earned $33.72 billion in revenues for its fiscal fourth quarter, a 12% gain, as well as earnings per share of $1.37.
07/18/2019
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Microsoft on Thursday announced a "private preview" of a new groups expiration behavior that relies on user activity as a safeguard against inadvertent group deletion.
07/18/2019
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
For power users of Microsoft's various Office services, life just got a little bit easier.
07/18/2019
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Microsoft on Tuesday outlined what's to come with its Chromium-based Microsoft Edge browser, particularly for business and enterprise users.
07/17/2019
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Microsoft and AT&T announced the establishment of a Microsoft 365 business deal, plus a "multiyear" strategic alliance centered on the use of 5G wireless networks to support edge computing and AI.
07/17/2019
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Windows 10 version 1903 will be arriving soon for many of those individuals and organizations not presently using it.
07/16/2019
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
Now that he's had a few months to test drive Microsoft's new browser, Brien shares his thoughts on what makes Edge tick.
07/16/2019
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Microsoft on Monday announced a preview of Proximity Placement Groups, which add assurances that networking latencies won't be an issue for organizations managing complex applications across Azure infrastructure.
07/15/2019
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IT pros using Microsoft Intune to manage devices got some polished tools from Microsoft this week.
07/12/2019
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Organizations wanting a future without passwords will likely face some hurdles getting there, Microsoft admitted in an announcement this week.
07/12/2019
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Microsoft Teams will be getting a few improvements, plus it now has more than "13 million daily active users," according to a Thursday Microsoft announcement.
07/11/2019
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
Of the many security improvements Microsoft made to the latest Windows 10 release, the ability to wall-off the Edge browser against malware attacks is one of the most critical.
07/11/2019
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Microsoft on Wednesday announced the availability of a public preview of Azure Active Directory's FIDO2 support, which enables user authentications without passwords.
07/10/2019