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Despite the strangeness of the keynote, Microsoft pulled off some its most geek-worthy product demos at Ignite this week.
09/23/2020
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To kick off the Microsoft Ignite virtual conference, CEO Satya Nadella made a bold claim about the public cloud with the second-largest market share behind Amazon.
09/22/2020
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Microsoft flooded virtual attendees of its Ignite conference with general availability announcements ranging from the high-profile Project Cortex to Azure SQL to major and minor components of Microsoft's three clouds.
09/22/2020
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Microsoft has been working to make it easier for organizations to deploy its Windows Virtual Desktop (WVD) service, according to a recent podcast chat.
09/14/2020
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In the second part of this series, Joey describes the methods that Microsoft uses to manage code rollouts, and how it detects hardware and software problems on Azure SQL.
09/10/2020
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Microsoft and VMware on Wednesday announced the "general availability" commercial release of Azure Spring Cloud, which provides infrastructure support for Spring Boot Java application developers.
09/02/2020
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Microsoft engineers outlined a way to find vulnerable Netlogon channel connections for organizations using newer Windows Server systems.
08/28/2020
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New Windows Terminal and Azure CLI (command line interface) updates were released this week.
08/27/2020
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Microsoft this week talked about how it has been improving communications for IT pros dealing with software patch and Azure service issues.
08/18/2020
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Microsoft announced a couple of Azure Active Directory-based security enhancements this week, which are now available for end users.
08/04/2020
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Microsoft announced this week that it's possible to use the Azure Active Directory Application Proxy service with Remote Desktop Services (RDS)-based Web clients to add additional security for remote connections.
07/31/2020
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
Microsoft's Hyper-V snapshots feature is a convenience, not a backup replacement. But with different cloud vendors using the term "snapshots" in different ways, that's easy to forget.
07/29/2020
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The Windows Virtual Desktop (WVD) service now has Azure Portal integration, plus Audio/Video (A/V) Redirect support for Microsoft Teams client sessions, Microsoft announced on Monday.
07/28/2020
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Microsoft announced a preview this week of a revamped Azure Stack HCI product that runs its own operating system, known as "version 20H2."
07/22/2020
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Microsoft has a "Cloud PC" effort under works that apparently will be somewhat different from existing Microsoft services, such as the Windows Virtual Desktop virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) service.
07/20/2020
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Microsoft and Citrix this week outlined the current direction of their longtime collaborative partnership efforts.
07/15/2020
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Microsoft outlined some recent security and compliance enhancements that are either already available or will be coming to Microsoft 365 tenancies using OneDrive and SharePoint by year's end.
07/10/2020
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A recent study from U.K.-based Sophos indicates that public cloud security incidents were becoming disturbingly frequent since the start of 2020, even before the COVID-19 pandemic forced organizations to lean more on public cloud platforms to support remote work.
07/09/2020
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
One of the lesser-known capabilities of System Center Virtual Machine Manager is its ability to convert VMware virtual machines so they can run on Microsoft Hyper-V. The process isn't without its quirks, however.
06/25/2020
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Microsoft on Monday announced the acquisition of CyberX, which will help bolster Microsoft's Internet of Things (IoT) security solutions.
06/22/2020
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Microsoft announced on Thursday that it bought ADRM Software Inc., a maker of data models for various industries.
06/18/2020
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Microsoft and the SAS Institute Inc. are expanding their partnership, with Microsoft Azure serving as SAS' preferred cloud service provider, according to a Monday announcement.
06/15/2020
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Microsoft this week announced a few milestones for its Azure Files cloud-based file share service.
06/12/2020
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Microsoft this week announced a preview of nested virtualization on Windows 10 machines using AMD processors.
06/11/2020
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Microsoft this week indicated in an announcement that the MSIX App Attach capability in the Windows Virtual Desktop service can now be tried via a preview of the Windows 10 Enterprise Multisession operating system.
06/03/2020