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Researchers disclosed a new variant 1-type Spectre attack method earlier this week, but Microsoft's software apparently isn't affected by it.
07/13/2018
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Microsoft will highlight new features and programs around Azure and Microsoft 365 during the Microsoft Inspire 2018 partner conference that kicks off on Sunday.
07/13/2018
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Microsoft on Thursday announced new Extended Security Updates plans that add three years of patch support for organizations using SQL Server 2008/R2 and Windows Server 2008/R2 products.
07/12/2018
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It might be easy to dismiss Microsoft's planned Office 365 changes as purely cosmetic, but as Brien argues, the upcoming redesign goes way past skin-deep.
07/12/2018
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Microsoft announced plans on Wednesday to end distribution of its monthly Windows 10 "delta updates," starting on Feb. 12, 2019.
07/11/2018
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Windows 10 version 1803 reached the semiannual channel release stage on Tuesday, according to Microsoft's documentation.
07/11/2018
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Microsoft announced earlier this month that it's planning to deprecate the Exchange Web Services API for Office 365 users.
07/10/2018
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Microsoft on Tuesday began taking orders for a new, slightly smaller and slightly less expensive Surface device that will start shipping Aug. 2 in several markets, including the United States.
07/10/2018
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Microsoft is planning to update its Microsoft Teams and Skype for Business Admin Center management portal, adding a few new perks for IT pros.
07/10/2018
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Microsoft's SQL Server toolbox is a complicated ecosystem, and differentiating one tool from another is a challenge. Vicky Harp, lead program manager of the SQL Server tools team, clarifies Microsoft's vision for its tools landscape.
07/10/2018
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Microsoft will accelerate feature updates for users of its Dynamics 365 Online products, with major updates expected to arrive in April and October of each year.
07/09/2018
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Cryptocurrency is still at the frontier of cybercriminal activity, but the vehicle to exploit it is taking a different form.
07/05/2018
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
Microsoft's preference for the subscription-based Office 365 over the "perpetual license" version is starting to show up in its feature descriptions.
07/03/2018
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One of Microsoft's most innovative contributions to productivity is on hiatus.
07/02/2018
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Microsoft is rolling out a one-button option that will make it easier for end users to move their files into OneDrive for Business cloud storage.
06/29/2018
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Microsoft announced on Thursday that its Direct Routing phone service capability reached "general availability."
06/28/2018
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Microsoft this week summarized the top Storage Spaces Direct improvements that will be coming to Windows Server 2019.
06/28/2018
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Azure IoT Edge, Microsoft's cloud-based solution for bringing local intelligence to distributed Internet of Things devices, is now generally available via open source code repository GitHub.
06/28/2018
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There are a few reasons why a VM might be placed in a saved state, but the most common is that it needs to be backed up. Here's how to fix this.
06/28/2018
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Microsoft on Wednesday announced a preview of a new Windows Server container image, which is available for testing by Windows Insider Program participants.
06/27/2018
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Microsoft conducted an online Windows Server Summit event on Tuesday, with company luminaries offering a broad outline of what's to come with Windows Server 2019.
06/27/2018
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That long-awaited USB-C dongle is coming to the Microsoft Surface.
06/26/2018
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The answer lies in Hyper-V's Edit Virtual Hard Disk Wizard. Here's a walk-through.
06/26/2018
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Microsoft earlier this month issued an advisory for the "lazy floating point state restore" security problem (CVE-2018-3665) that potentially could affect users of Windows and Intel Core processors.
06/25/2018
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Microsoft is bringing multifactor authentication (MFA) to organizations that manage Azure Active Directory tenancies.
06/25/2018
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The Microsoft Exchange team got more talkative this week regarding a few improvements and changes, mostly on the server side.
06/22/2018
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Microsoft this week declared the "general availability" of Traffic Analytics, a service that checks network activity across Microsoft Azure public cloud infrastructure.
06/21/2018
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Brian Krzanich is out as CEO of Intel after an investigation into a past consensual relationship with an Intel employee.
06/21/2018
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Microsoft this week announced the previews of two password security capabilities for organizations using the Azure Active Directory service or Windows Server Active Directory.
06/20/2018
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Bonsai, an AI startup that was founded by two former Microsoft employees and partially funded by Microsoft Ventures, is now officially part of Microsoft.
06/20/2018
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Microsoft on Tuesday announced a preview of System Insights for Windows Server 2019, which promises to put predictive analytical tools into the hands of IT pros.
06/19/2018
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Microsoft's Office 365 Hybrid Configuration Wizard tool, when used by organizations to move Exchange Server configuration settings to Exchange Online, will be getting the ability to transfer policies, too, by the end of this month.
06/18/2018
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Microsoft issued a few Azure Active Directory previews this month, adding role-based access control improvements and the ability to block so-called "legacy" or older authentication approaches.
06/15/2018
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This week, yet another speculative execution processor vulnerability was uncovered, namely "lazy floating point state save/restore."
06/14/2018
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Microsoft has declared the Windows 10 April 2018 release (version 1803) to be a successful one, at least in terms of its telemetry findings, and is now labeling the release as being "fully available."
06/14/2018
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Close on the heels of Microsoft's "Project Natick" announcement, Facebook took the wraps off its own water-based cooling technology.
06/14/2018
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Microsoft plans to switch users of Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2 to a monthly rollup patch model, starting in September, according to an announcement this week.
06/13/2018
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The Microsoft Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) reached "general availability" status on Wednesday, and can now be commercially used in 10 Azure regions.
06/13/2018
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Microsoft on Wednesday unveiled big feature changes -- on a slow timetable -- for the Office user experience, including a simplified ribbon, new colors and icons, and a search overhaul.
06/13/2018
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Microsoft MVP Orin Thomas lays out the most common security pitfalls IT administrators face, and how everything from the cloud to company management can make them worse.
06/13/2018
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Since Bill Gates stepped back from the company where he amassed one of history's largest fortunes, he's become arguably the world's most influential philanthropist and social change-minded investor.
06/13/2018
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The Microsoft Teams collaboration workspace application is getting added to various Microsoft-certified conference room devices, including the Surface Hub, Microsoft announced late last week.
06/12/2018
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Microsoft plans to stop the active participation of its employees in Microsoft Community forum discussions starting next month for certain older Windows and Office products, plus a few others.
06/12/2018
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As Brien recently discovered, a glitch in Azure can cause a virtual machine to fail when it's manually configured to use a specific DNS server. Here's how the problem went down and how he fixed it.
06/12/2018
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Microsoft on Monday argued against organizations using Windows 10's long-term servicing channel update option.
06/11/2018
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Microsoft announced this week that it's planning to expand the availability of Azure Stack to 92 countries, along with other Azure news.
06/08/2018
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Microsoft is continuing to improve Windows AutoPilot, with a few new previews announced this week.
06/08/2018
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
Before you resign yourself to a potentially frustrating and lengthy tech support call to fix an Office 365 problem, try a little DIY.
06/08/2018
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Microsoft announced enhancements this week at Computex, an IT event in Taipei aimed at hardware partners building Internet of Things and "intelligent edge" devices.
06/07/2018
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Even on the heels of a breakout 2017, the world's biggest datacenter operators -- among them Google, Microsoft and Amazon Web Services -- have outdone themselves.
06/07/2018