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Microsoft product milestones and updates dominated our most popular news articles of the year.
12/20/2018
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Here are the year's most popular explainers and how-to columns -- along with some plain, old "Why did Microsoft do that?" musings thrown in.
12/18/2018
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
From guessing the fate of Windows 10 S to predicting Microsoft's next big move with Linux, Brien's predictions from a year ago were on the mark more than they weren't.
12/17/2018
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Microsoft expects organizations using its Delivery Optimization peer-to-peer update scheme will optimally see 60 percent to 70 percent improvements in terms of network bandwidth use.
12/14/2018
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
Hyper-V usually makes it easy to configure virtual network adapters within VMs. That is, until you need to create a VM containing multiple virtual NICs.
12/14/2018
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Microsoft this week highlighted some emerging efforts to improve both the scalability and governance of the open source Kubernetes container orchestration service.
12/13/2018
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Microsoft gave notice earlier this month that it will be ending its Azure Container Service on Jan. 31, 2020.
12/12/2018
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Microsoft released a new tool, Surface Diagnostic Toolkit for Business, earlier this month, providing a means for IT pros to find and troubleshoot problems on Microsoft Surface devices.
12/12/2018
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In case you hadn't noticed, server sales are booming.
12/12/2018
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
While it's possible to give outside users access to certain content in your organization's Office 365 environment, the process of setting them up requires a few extra steps.
12/12/2018
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Microsoft announced on Tuesday that the OpenSSH solution used for remote management is now a supported "Features on Demand" addition in both Windows 10 version 1809 and Windows Server 2019.
12/11/2018
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Microsoft ended the patch year on Tuesday with a whimper of sorts, releasing an estimated 39 security fixes in its December bundle plus one security advisory, according to a count by Trend Micro's Zero Day Initiative.
12/11/2018
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Microsoft isn't exactly killing off its EdgeHTML rendering engine, even after declaring plans to use Chromium open source technologies in its Edge browser.
12/10/2018
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Microsoft offered yet another explanation of its monthly Windows update process as part of its transparency-in-communications blog series.
12/10/2018
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Microsoft Teams is riding the Office 365 rocket to market share among collaborative chat applications, a new survey suggests.
12/10/2018
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
For starters, the cloud-based CRM/ERP software has some surprising integrations with PowerApps, Microsoft's low-code developer environment.
12/10/2018
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Microsoft has started a new Microsoft 365 Insider Program for organizations to test its software, but the program's name and scope could be changing.
12/07/2018
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
Don't be the IT pro who spends way too many hours each day keeping their users secure only to neglect their own home networks. Brien describes the two steps he took to avoid this trap.
12/07/2018
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Microsoft plans to align its Microsoft Edge browser production efforts with the open source Chromium Web platform for the desktop version of the browser, the company announced on Thursday.
12/06/2018
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For the emerging area of Internet of Things (IoT), developers face a confusing array of choices in a few different areas within Microsoft's catalog of Azure services.
12/06/2018
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A Tuesday broadcast by Microsoft President Brad Smith served as a reminder that Microsoft is still proceeding with its efforts to expand broadband Internet access in rural and underserved areas of the United States.
12/05/2018
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Kubernetes deployments have "Critical" flaws that could permit information disclosures, according to a Kubernetes announcement.
12/05/2018
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Microsoft's artificial intelligence capabilities are popping up all over the stack, sometimes in surprising places.
12/05/2018
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
Once a milestone of modern technology, Microsoft's original mixed-reality device is now starting to show its age.
12/05/2018
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Microsoft and Docker on Tuesday announced a new specification and a new tool for organizations and developers managing distributed applications.
12/04/2018
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Microsoft is open sourcing some of the most popular Windows-centric .NET Framework components, particularly Windows Presentation Foundation, Windows Forms and Windows UI XAML Library.
12/04/2018
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Microsoft debuted SQL Server 2019 at Ignite, but a more technically detailed picture of the next-gen database platform emerged only later at the PASS Summit. Here are some of the standout additions and improvements.
12/04/2018
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Intel announced late last month that it has started introducing "Windows Modern Drivers" for its processors on Windows 10 version 1809-based machines.
12/03/2018
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Artificial intelligence (AI) will come into focus at the Live! 360 conference for Microsoft-focused developers and IT professionals this week in Orlando, Fla.
12/03/2018
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Microsoft this week highlighted new and coming improvements for Office 365 users.
11/30/2018
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
PowerShell sometimes displays far more information than you can comfortably digest. Thankfully, there are ways to display only the information that really matters.
11/30/2018
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IT pros got an earful about Windows 10 servicing, plus lots of talk about Windows Autopilot, in a recent Microsoft Web presentation.
11/29/2018
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
A common way to attach a virtual hard disk to a virtual machine is via the Hyper-V Manager. But, as Brien shows, you can use PowerShell instead.
11/28/2018
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The cloud giant just delivered some big news to datacenter managers watching the rapidly evolving Arm processor market.
11/28/2018
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Microsoft is planning to expand the availability of its new "account manager" multiple sign-in capability, which will be available across various Microsoft online services sometime next year.
11/27/2018
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Microsoft apparently has addressed an Azure multifactor authentication (MFA) service outage for the second time in as many weeks.
11/27/2018
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Microsoft indicated that it's possible now to use devices based on the Fast IDentity Online 2.0 protocol with a Microsoft account and Windows 10 version 1809, obviating the need for a password.
11/26/2018
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The Microsoft Teams collaboration service now supports the assignment of four different IT administrator roles, Microsoft announced last week.
11/26/2018
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As the tides fall in the tech sector, Microsoft's market cap has emerged as the largest.
11/26/2018
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
A few minutes of clock skew might seem like a non-issue, but don't be fooled. There are multiple scenarios where having differing clocks could wreak minor havoc. Here's how to address the problem.
11/26/2018
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Expert and consultant Vlad Catrinescu offers some thoughts for organizations contemplating impending SharePoint Server moves.
11/19/2018
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Microsoft on Thursday announced the release of the Windows Compatibility Module 1.0.0 for PowerShell Core 6.
11/16/2018
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
If you're getting error messages while trying to manage a remote Hyper-V host from a Windows 10 desktop, here's one possible reason -- and a solution.
11/16/2018
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Microsoft on Tuesday kicked off a discussion series in which the company is promising to be more transparent about Windows 10 servicing and associated quality issues.
11/14/2018
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An acquisition this week layers some new resources onto Microsoft's already rich capabilities in the area of conversational AI.
11/14/2018
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
As Brien shows, here's where WMI filtering comes in handy.
11/14/2018
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Microsoft on Tuesday rereleased the Windows 10 October 2018 Update (version 1809), as well as Windows Server 2019 and its Windows Server-as-a-service cousins.
11/13/2018
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
Here's how to use PowerShell to manage Hyper-V virtual machines without having to jump through the usual hoops.
11/12/2018
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Microsoft on Friday updated its advice to Windows 10 Pro edition users frustrated by a recent activation glitch.
11/09/2018
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The datacenter of 2020 and beyond will look quite different from the datacenter of today, according to researchers at IDC.
11/09/2018