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Microsoft on Tuesday gave notice that support for hybrid mobile device management with Intune and System Center Configuration Manager, known as "hybrid MDM," will be coming to an end next year.
08/15/2018
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The long-promised public play date between Alexa and Cortana is here.
08/15/2018
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
Microsoft's forthcoming Windows Server product looks to be jam-packed with new features. Here are some of the standouts, specific to Hyper-V.
08/15/2018
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Intel, Microsoft and Red Hat issued security advisories on Tuesday for yet another speculative execution side-channel attack method, this time going by the "L1 Terminal Fault" name.
08/14/2018
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Microsoft last week announced plans for releasing a new BizTalk Server product, along with details about its Azure Integration Services vision.
08/13/2018
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Microsoft is consolidating a number of ports for Azure Stack in a move that should significantly reduce the hybrid cloud platform's attack surface and simplify network integration.
08/13/2018
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
Microsoft has been giving some longstanding Windows features like Notepad a facelift with each new Windows 10 preview build. But as Brien notes, some of the changes are more annoying than helpful.
08/13/2018
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Microsoft this week offered an overview of its update process for IT pros managing Office 365 ProPlus tenancies.
08/10/2018
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Office 365 migrations can have marked effects on IT personnel and budgets, perhaps in unexpected ways. A Directions on Microsoft analyst described some steps to take.
08/10/2018
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
Managing Integration Services used to be a pain until Microsoft began including it in all Windows OSes, starting with Windows Server 2016. But administrators of older platforms don't need to be left high and dry.
08/10/2018
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As Microsoft steadily shifts its focus to the cloud and ramps up release cadences for all of its code, the future of Windows is a pressing question.
08/09/2018
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Software-defined networking is one of the top 10 networking features supported by Windows Server 2019, and it'll power so-called "software-defined datacenters," Microsoft claimed in a Wednesday announcement.
08/09/2018
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Microsoft should slow down its patch release process and it should only deliver new feature updates to Windows 10 and Office once per year.
08/08/2018
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If you've turned away from OneDrive or stopped paying attention to Microsoft's file hosting service, it may be time to take another look.
08/08/2018
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
There is actually quite a bit of VM info that is hidden from view, but that can be exposed through the Get-VM cmdlet if you know how. Brien walks you through the steps.
08/08/2018
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Microsoft gave notice late last month that a preview of its MSIX packaging tool, which will supplant the MSI and AppX formats, is available for testing and installation from the Microsoft Store.
08/07/2018
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Microsoft on Friday announced that .NET Framework fixes are available to address problems caused by its July 10 patches.
08/06/2018
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You're going to need a bigger network connection.
08/06/2018
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Organizations wanting to enable single sign-on access to Office 365 applications while using Ping Identity's PingFederate as the federation provider now have a more honed tool to get there.
08/03/2018
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What exactly will this new, nearly datacenter-less world look like? Gartner's head of research sees enterprises making a number of adaptive moves.
08/03/2018
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PowerShell Core 6.1 is expected to hit "general availability" at the end of this month, but compatibility with some Windows PowerShell modules will lag.
08/02/2018
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Microsoft on Wednesday offered clarifications on its monthly Windows operating system update release process, and described how IT pros should think about it.
08/02/2018
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The smallest of Microsoft's "Surface" family of 2-in-1 devices is now available in the United States and Canada, three weeks after it was first announced.
08/02/2018
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
As Brien explains, creating a virtual disk in Windows Storage Spaces is akin to creating a map to the underlying raw storage that will be used by the volumes on the virtual disk.
08/02/2018
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Microsoft announced on Tuesday that System Center Configuration Manager update 1806 will be arriving in the next few weeks.
08/01/2018
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Microsoft on Tuesday announced another test build of Windows Server 2019 (build 17723), which includes a new bandwidth control scheme, plus Kubernetes additions.
08/01/2018
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Microsoft released updates to .NET Framework versions on Monday to address problems caused by its botched July 10 patches, but they only address some Windows systems.
07/31/2018
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
In this introduction to Microsoft's Storage Spaces technology, Brien walks you through the steps of creating a storage space and a virtual disk.
07/31/2018
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Microsoft announced on Monday that its Microsoft Edge browser now supports the Web Authentication spec at the preview stage.
07/30/2018
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Microsoft on Monday announced a preview of IT roles management improvements in the Azure Portal for organizations using the Azure Active Directory identity and access management service.
07/30/2018
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Microsoft this week announced that it will be changing how Team Sites and Communication Sites get created by end users in a coming update to SharePoint Online for Office 365 users.
07/27/2018
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Organizations that applied Microsoft's July 10 "update Tuesday" Windows patches may have experienced SQL Server failures after rebooting their servers.
07/27/2018
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Customers who don't want to follow Microsoft into the cloud for their Office productivity products will be paying more for that on-premises option starting next quarter.
07/27/2018
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Microsoft on Thursday announced a preview release of Azure Active Directory Activity Logs, which show up in Azure Monitor.
07/26/2018
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
Thinking of creating some 360-degree videos using Microsoft's mixed reality technology? Here are a few more tips.
07/26/2018
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Microsoft on Tuesday announced a public preview release of SharePoint Server 2019.
07/25/2018
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Much like it beat a drum around the end-of-life deadline for Windows XP, Microsoft is now starting to warn customers and partners that a popular desktop configuration's time is limited.
07/25/2018
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Microsoft on Tuesday announced the release of System Center version 1807, its latest semiannual channel update to its suite of management tools.
07/24/2018
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Microsoft on Tuesday announced that "commercial previews" of Exchange Server 2019 and Skype for Business Server 2019 are now available.
07/24/2018
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
Brien uses Microsoft's mixed-reality technology to take some 360-degree videos, and comes away with a couple of pointers.
07/24/2018
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Microsoft acknowledged that some organizations were adversely affected by the .NET Framework monthly updates that were released almost two weeks ago on "update Tuesday" (July 10).
07/23/2018
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Microsoft has wrapped up its Inspire conference this month in Las Vegas, where it combined the annual partner event with its annual internal sales event, Microsoft Ready.
07/23/2018
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Microsoft this week announced that its Azure File Sync service, used for enabling centralized file shares, has reached "general availability" status.
07/20/2018
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Microsoft this week added a preview of a graphical code editor within its Azure Cloud Shell developer tools.
07/19/2018
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Microsoft's latest fiscal year earnings are in, and it's official: Microsoft is now a $100 billion company.
07/19/2018
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Microsoft's July 10 "update Tuesday" patches negatively affected organizations using Lync Server 2013, Skype for Business Server 2015 and Exchange Server, Microsoft admitted this week.
07/18/2018
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In his keynote at Microsoft Inspire on Wednesday, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella detailed the Microsoft products and tools he uses to stay productive.
07/18/2018
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Microsoft announced on Monday that Azure Service Fabric Mesh, a "serverless" means of hosting applications, is now available as a public preview.
07/17/2018
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
PowerShell has a reputation for being complicated, and for good reason. Luckily, there is a lot of help available -- if you know where to look for it.
07/17/2018
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The Remote Desktop Web client for Windows Server is now ready for use in production environments, having reached the "general availability" stage on Monday.
07/16/2018