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Posey's Tips & Tricks
Planning to run Hyper-V VMs on your Windows desktop? Here's how to ensure that you don't deplete Windows of the resources it needs to run smoothly.
01/13/2021
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Security expert Sergey Chubarov on the current security landscape and how the SolarWinds attack can change cybersecurity for the better.
01/11/2021
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An advanced persistent threat actor associated with the SolarWinds Orion attacks used their ability to create credentials to compromise a victim's Microsoft 365 and Azure services, but they didn't always tap the so-called "Solorigate" vulnerability to do so.
01/09/2021
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Microsoft is planning to bump up its service-level agreement (SLA) uptime assurance for users of the Azure Active Directory service to "four nines" per month, or 99.99 percent, starting on April 1.
01/06/2021
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Microsoft is planning to turn on a one-time passcode feature in March that will grant temporary network access to business collaborators for organizations that use the Azure Active Directory B2B service.
01/05/2021
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The most popular how-to and commentary articles of the year (plus a few honorable mentions).
12/23/2020
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Microsoft recently announced that it has released Azure Stack HCI, in conjunction with hardware partners, at the "general availability" commercial-release stage.
12/14/2020
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Microsoft this week announced that its Azure Digital Twins service has reached the "general availability" commercial-release stage.
12/09/2020
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
Microsoft's venerable flowchart app had been getting a little dusty, but some recent tweaks have managed to bring it closer in line with modern IT needs.
12/09/2020
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Microsoft announced the preview release of Azure Purview, a new data governance solution, as well as the "general availability" commercial release of Azure Synapse Analytics and Azure Synapse Studio.
12/04/2020
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Last week's AWS outage that broke the Internet showed how critical it is to build applications that can withstand transient failure. Here's what you need to know to design a resilient cloud app (and it doesn't involve multicloud).
12/02/2020
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MessageOps, one of the pioneering toolsets for Office 365, is now part of Sirius Computer Solutions.
12/02/2020
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Microsoft announced on Tuesday that its Azure Hybrid Benefit program for Linux, previously at preview, is now commercially available.
11/18/2020
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
Occasionally, restarting a failed System Center Virtual Machine Manager job can leave your virtualization infrastructure in an unknown state. Here's how to avoid that.
10/28/2020
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Microsoft has joined the MEF, a nonprofit industry association that aims to standardize various software-defined networking (SDN) technologies used by service providers and enterprises.
10/27/2020
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Microsoft this week introduced the Microsoft Azure Modular Datacenter as part of its overall Azure Space effort.
10/22/2020
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Worldwide revenue in the IT and business services sector decreased 1.9 percent in the first half of 2020 in comparison with the same period last year, according to updated stats announced this week by research and consulting firm IDC.
10/16/2020
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
Brien details the pros and cons of Hyper-V replication versus clustering, and what scenarios work best for each method.
10/15/2020
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
Backup solutions are more reliable now than they've ever been, but it's still important to have a second data-protection measure in case your backup fails. That's where Hyper-V comes in.
10/13/2020
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Microsoft issued a Thursday announcement promising to deliver improved Azure-based tools to developers working on "intelligent edge devices" that use Arm-based processors and artificial intelligence solutions.
10/09/2020
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Big Blue announced a major restructuring move on Thursday that would split its operations between its managed infrastructure business and its hybrid cloud and AI solutions.
10/08/2020
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Microsoft plans to turn on a new Azure Active Directory "Publisher Verification" security feature that will block end user consent to unverified app publishers starting next month.
10/07/2020
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Microsoft has shelled out $374,300 in security bounties as part of its Azure Sphere Security Research Challenge, the company said this week.
10/06/2020
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Microsoft highlighted a few Azure Active Directory improvements during last week's Ignite event.
10/02/2020
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Ignite 2020 saw the public preview of Azure Arc enabled data services, the latest step in Microsoft's bid to demystify multicloud. Principal program manager Travis Wright explains how it works.
09/29/2020