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Microsoft on Thursday announced that its Windows Virtual Desktop service is now available as a public preview.
03/21/2019
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Microsoft on Monday announced that Azure Backup for SQL Server had reached "general availability" status, meaning it's deemed ready for production-environment use.
03/19/2019
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
In the early days of Windows, the pagefile helped make up for shortages in physical memory. But should you be using a pagefile on a virtual machine?
03/08/2019
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Microsoft's drive to put Azure SQL Data Warehouse on more equal footing with SQL Server is finally paying off.
03/07/2019
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Microsoft this week introduced a "Guardian Modules" concept, where Azure Sphere microcontroller units can be used to enable secure connections for older Internet of Things (IoT) devices.
03/06/2019
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Microsoft announced the release of Azure DevOps Server 2019 on Tuesday.
03/05/2019
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Microsoft added a few improvements to Azure Firewall, its firewall-as-a-service security offering for organizations using Azure virtual machines.
03/04/2019
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Just days before the 2019 RSA Conference, Microsoft on Thursday announced the preview releases of two new cloud-based security services: Azure Sentinel and Threat Experts.
02/28/2019
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A partnership is in the works between Microsoft and VMware to make it much easier for enterprise customers to move VMware workloads into the Azure public cloud, according to a published report.
02/27/2019
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With $80 million in funding raised, the startup is bent on hastening the death of the datacenter hard drive.
02/27/2019
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The Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection service can now be used to help address security issues with Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 clients.
02/22/2019
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Microsoft described how to modernize so-called "classic" alert rules to work with the new Azure Monitor service in a Thursday Azure announcement.
02/22/2019
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
Earlier, Brien walked through the steps of preparing a physical Windows Server 2016 machine for a storage refresh. Now, he shows how to complete the process, all the way to OS restoration.
02/21/2019
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
To spruce up some aging lab hardware, Brien decided to make the jump to all-flash storage. Here's a walk-through of the first half of the process.
02/19/2019
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Tech giants Google, Apple and others are expanding their datacenter footprints at a rapid rate, and it's pushing the industry to find better ways to power all that infrastructure.
02/19/2019
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This week, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) described a high-risk security vulnerability (CVE-2019-5736) for organizations using containers that could lead to compromised host systems.
02/15/2019
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
You know that SCVMM libraries can store ISO files, virtual hard disks and various types of templates in a single location for use on all of your managed hosts. But what about unmanaged hosts?
02/13/2019
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Microsoft on Monday touted its Azure Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) service as being capable of alerting organizations when they are subject to NT LAN Manager (NTLM) relay attacks.
02/11/2019
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Microsoft has been adding to its Azure Active Directory capabilities in recent weeks.
02/08/2019
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
If you're new to Hyper-V, here are some pointers that can save you a lot of grief.
02/08/2019
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From the beginning, Microsoft's vision for the Azure Stack involved situations where you're getting your hands dirty.
02/06/2019
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IT is moving toward the cloud and virtualization, but don't write off hardware -- especially for highly critical systems. Here's a look at the newest generation of database hardware and how it impacts performance.
02/05/2019
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Microsoft plans to change the default Office 365 document-saving behavior and have it default to OneDrive and OneDrive for Business folder locations, starting as early as next month.
01/29/2019
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Microsoft added a preview feature to its Azure Active Directory Business to Business (B2B) service that makes it easier for business partners to gain access to an organization's network resources.
01/28/2019
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IDC this month published findings on revenues from cloud IT infrastructure spending in the third quarter of 2018, based on server, storage and Ethernet switch sales.
01/22/2019