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Posey's Tips & Tricks
If you're familiar with how to access a USB device from inside a VMware environment, be aware -- the process isn't quite as seamless as it is in Hyper-V. Here's how to do it in Hyper-V at the host and client levels.
05/17/2018
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A standard reaction to a private company sharing fairly specific financial results on a regular basis is to assume that they're trying to attract a buyer, but Veeam insists that's not the case.
05/15/2018
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Microsoft announced the preview of Project Brainwave, "programmable hardware" that sits on Intel's FPGA chips and is designed to help "greatly speed up" AI calculations.
05/14/2018
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Microsoft this week offered a progress report on its Azure confidential computing project, mostly highlighting its partner efforts.
05/10/2018
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Red Hat and Microsoft offered a progress report on their collaboration efforts this week and promised to deliver a preview of Red Hat OpenShift on Azure "in the coming months."
05/08/2018
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Microsoft announced during this week's Build Conference that its Azure Kubernetes Service, formerly known as "managed Kubernetes on Azure," will reach general availability status "in the next few weeks."
05/08/2018
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Artificial intelligence and machine learning took center stage at the Microsoft Build 2018 conference in Seattle on Monday.
05/07/2018
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At Build 2018, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella unveiled a fourth-generation version of the company's discontinued Kinect motion-sensing device, which is being repurposed for AI, Azure, edge computing and IoT.
05/07/2018
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
Private virtual networks are the most secure virtual network because they never communicate with the Hyper-V host or with the physical network. But what exactly happens when you create one?
05/04/2018
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Databases usually lag behind other servers in moving to new architecture, but containerization brings enough major improvements to convince even the most old-school DBAs.
05/02/2018
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Satya Nadella says he's never seen a database scale as quickly as Cosmos DB.
04/30/2018
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
Home is where your data is. If you need to access data remotely, and neither a VPN connection nor traditional cloud storage will do the trick, consider using OneDrive as a proxy for remote file access.
04/27/2018
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Microsoft is bringing its OneDrive file-sharing and collaboration capabilities seen with Windows desktop and Web applications to Office for Mac, as well as to Android and iOS mobile applications.
04/26/2018
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Microsoft on Wednesday announced the "general availability" of Azure Container Instances, a serverless runtime that's designed to make it easier for developers to spin up containers on Microsoft's public datacenter infrastructure.
04/26/2018
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Microsoft reported earnings on Thursday of $0.95 per share on revenues of $26.82 billion.
04/26/2018
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Foley on Microsoft
If Microsoft makes a bunch of updates to its Dynamics business but nobody is around to communicate it, does it make a sound?
04/25/2018
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Microsoft this week announced tooling enhancements to help organizations using Azure and Office 365 services meet the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation requirements.
04/20/2018
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Microsoft this week described progress on its sprawling collection of security services, including its Advanced Threat Protection, Conditional Access, Information Protection and Security Graph solutions.
04/19/2018
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Microsoft hearts Linux and all, but the company is reaching a new level.
04/17/2018
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Microsoft outlined a major new security vision this week called Azure Sphere that aims to secure the billions of devices on the Internet of Things (IoT) from device hardware to software to cloud, and gives Microsoft a central role.
04/17/2018
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News
Microsoft now enables the use of Outlook e-mail client applications for Android or iOS devices with some Exchange Server products in "hybrid modern authentication" scenarios.
04/09/2018
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News
Microsoft gave advance notice this month that it's planning to change the user interface for carrying out Azure Active Directory logins, yet again.
04/09/2018
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
For starters, don't be surprised if Microsoft takes an axe to Server Manager in favor of Project Honolulu.
04/09/2018
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Microsoft this week offered some practical advice on how to set up its hybrid cloud printing capability.
04/06/2018
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
Microsoft's CPU Groups tool lets you group CPU resources, cap resource consumption, and bind individual VMs to the group. Here's how.
04/06/2018