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In-Depth
The new service aims to make Enterprise Mobility + Security (EMS) more appealing than ever.
11/07/2017
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News
Most organizations (82 percent) typically use the premises-installed Microsoft Office productivity suite products, according to an industry survey of 1,168 IT pros.
11/06/2017
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At last week's PASS Summit, Microsoft introduced its new SQL Operations Studio, a lightweight tool for both database developers and administrators.
11/06/2017
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In-Depth
Microsoft recently announced a new on-premises SharePoint server release set for preview next year, but most of the details are a mystery. Microsoft MVP and SharePoint architect Oliver Wirkus shares what he hopes and expects are planned.
11/06/2017
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In-Depth
Microsoft's Michael Niehaus and Nathan Mercer field some questions on the status of Windows and highlight some of the new tech coming to the latest version of the OS.
11/03/2017
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Microsoft demonstrated the ability for its Power BI business intelligence tool to query datasets with up to 1 trillion rows, up from its current threshold of 10 billion.
11/03/2017
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Foley on Microsoft
Under CEO Satya Nadella, Microsoft increasingly has been focusing on its enterprise software and services strengths.
11/03/2017
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News
Microsoft today described Windows 10 Internet of Things (IoT) "fall creators update" features that were added.
11/02/2017
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News
Microsoft's various 2019-branded server products are planned for release in "late 2018," according to a recent talk.
11/01/2017
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The latest release of the new Microsoft 365 service includes Office 365 for Business, Windows 10 upgrades and select features of Enterprise Mobility and Security (EMS).
11/01/2017
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News
Microsoft's coming Surface Pro laptop with Long Term Evolution (LTE) Advanced connectivity will ship in "December 2017," the company announced today.
10/31/2017
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Windows Insider
As the threat landscape gets more complicated, one possible solution seems obvious: Deploy more third-party security software. But what happens when those programs turn out to be part of the problem?
10/31/2017
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News
The Microsoft Intune service, as managed using the Azure Portal, now has a new troubleshooting capability, Microsoft announced this month.
10/30/2017
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News
Organizations using Azure Active Directory with federation should make a configuration change to take advantage of newly added resilience improvements, Microsoft advised late last week.
10/30/2017
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News
Microsoft this week announced progress with Skype Room Systems (SRS) products built by its hardware partners.
10/27/2017
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News
Microsoft on Thursday reported $24.5 billion in revenues for its first FY18 quarter, more than $1 billion higher than analysts had forecast.
10/26/2017
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News
Microsoft this week gave assurances that phones certified to work with its Skype for Business Online service will continue to work when capabilities get transitioned over to the Microsoft Teams service.
10/26/2017
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Using MAMR technology, the high-capacity hard drive disks will be perfectly suited for enterprise datacenters.
10/26/2017
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News
Microsoft is no longer manufacturing Kinect cameras, according to a press account today, citing Microsoft officials.
10/25/2017
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A new partnership between Cisco and Google will enable workloads to run both on-premises on engineered Cisco UCS hyper-converged infrastructure and the public Google Cloud Platform service.
10/25/2017
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News
Microsoft today described some of its upcoming roadmap milestones for bringing Skype for Business capabilities into Microsoft Teams.
10/24/2017
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News
Microsoft today announced previews of new services aimed at making Kubernetes on Azure easier to manage for developers and IT pros.
10/24/2017
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News
Microsoft issued a reminder today that IT pros should switch Azure Active Directory conditional access policies that were created using the "classic" Azure portal to policies supported by the new Azure Portal.
10/23/2017
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Building on its promise to bring supercomputing capabilities to Azure, Microsoft and Cray are partnering to offer Cray's supercomputers and storage systems in the cloud for the first time.
10/23/2017
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News
Windows Server version 1709, released earlier this week, doesn't include Microsoft's highly touted Storage Spaces Direct capability.
10/20/2017
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Microsoft certifies Intel's new Xeon Scalable Processor platform for Azure Stack, clearing a key milestone for deployment of the appliances for workloads requiring high-performance, density and future expansion.
10/20/2017
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News
Microsoft this week said it was announcing the "general availability of Visio Online, including two new subscription plans: Visio Online Plan 1 and Visio Online Plan 2," according to a Microsoft spokesperson, via e-mail.
10/19/2017
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
Create general or custom alerts when configuration changes have been made in Office 365.
10/19/2017
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News
Microsoft on Tuesday released Windows Server version 1709, its first "semiannual channel" release for organizations wanting to get new operating system releases at a faster pace.
10/18/2017
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News
Microsoft today released the Windows 10 fall creators update, which is broadly available.
10/17/2017
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News
Microsoft's latest operating system update, released today, contains plenty for IT pros.
10/17/2017
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Windows 10 Fall Creators Update comes with the announcement of the new Surface Book 2, Microsoft's most powerful PC to date, available Nov. 16.
10/17/2017
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In-Depth
Admins should benefit from the recent integration of Intune with the Azure portal and support for conditional access, but should prepare to encounter some migration issues.
10/17/2017
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News
On Monday Adobe alerted the public that attackers are taking advantage of a remote code execution security vulnerability in its Flash platform in Web browsers.
10/17/2017
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News
Microsoft announced today that its Azure infrastructure is being used by software security firm Symantec Corp.
10/16/2017
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News
The U.S. Supreme Court today ordered a review of an appellate court's ruling in favor of Microsoft in a search-warrant case involving Microsoft's cloud services.
10/16/2017
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News
Security researchers on Monday revealed a major flaw in the widely used wireless network protocol WPA2.
10/16/2017
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Few businesses leaders have been more outspoken than Microsoft President Brad Smith, backed by his boss CEO Satya Nadella, himself an immigrant, about Trump's move to end DACA.
10/16/2017
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News
A Dutch regulatory authority has found that Microsoft's privacy measures in the Home and Pro editions of the Windows 10 "anniversary update" and the "creators update" operating system editions are violating the country's privacy law.
10/13/2017
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Public preview of Java runtime for Microsoft Azure Functions released at last week's JavaOne conference.
10/13/2017
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Windows Insider
The "Calvin & Hobbes" cartoon's imaginary game of making the rules up as you go is a near-perfect representation of what modern IT has become.
10/13/2017
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News
Microsoft will be delivering major Windows and Linux Console changes with the arrival of the Windows 10 "fall creators update" next week.
10/12/2017
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
Outlook's new LinkedIn hooks will help personalize e-mails to those you might not know too much about.
10/12/2017
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News
Microsoft this week explained a bit more about the effects of using System Center Configuration Manager with Windows Update for Business deferral policies.
10/11/2017
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News
Organizations using Microsoft's Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) tool to control Windows client updates may have ended up with dead PCs this week after a Microsoft release mistake.
10/11/2017
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Reports that HP will not continue manufacturing its Elite x3 Windows-based phone appear to have triggered Microsoft's official confirmation that it has no further plans to add new Windows Mobile operating system features for Windows Phone devices.
10/11/2017
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News
Microsoft exec Joe Belfiore on Sunday sent a tweet that signaled the end for Windows 10 Mobile.
10/10/2017
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News
Microsoft will make it a little easier to read update log files with the release of the Windows 10 "fall creators update" (version 1709).
10/10/2017
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In-Depth
Now that using multiple devices, apps and OSes is ubiquitous in the workplace, new unified endpoint management tools are introducing a common approach to configuration, security and administration.
10/10/2017
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News
Microsoft is highlighting three Azure Active Directory previews for controlling user access to network resources.
10/09/2017