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SQL Server 2019, Azure Sphere, in-use encryption in Azure and a major Azure IoT initiative called "digital twin" headlined a bounty of new technology previews from Microsoft for customers and partners to test and evaluate.
09/27/2018
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Microsoft on Monday announced a coming preview of Windows Virtual Desktop, a new service that will deliver virtual Windows desktops and apps to end users from Microsoft Azure infrastructure.
09/25/2018
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Windows Server 2019, IoT Central, Azure Firewall and a dozen other releases have entered the phase of being fully ready and supported for production use.
09/24/2018
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Azure Data Box, Microsoft's heavy-duty data transfer appliance for the cloud, is now generally available after a nearly year-long preview phase.
09/24/2018
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
A grab-bag of predictions for Microsoft's upcoming IT event. Also in the cards: open source getting short shrift.
09/20/2018
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
There's a rumor that Microsoft is planning to replace Hyper-V with an alternative feature called simply "Virtual Machines." Brien breaks down just how little sense that would make.
09/14/2018
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The Visual Studio team on Monday issued a postmortem analysis for a Sept. 4 service outage that happened in Microsoft's U.S. South Central region.
09/11/2018
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Microsoft is highlighting the ability to quickly set up connections to Azure virtual networks as a top Windows Server 2019 networking feature.
09/10/2018
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Microsoft is rebranding Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS), the DevOps offering that has been a part of the Visual Studio IDE for years, to be the cloud-hosted "Azure DevOps."
09/10/2018
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Organizations with Microsoft Premier support accounts soon will need to create their Microsoft Intune support requests using the Azure Portal.
09/05/2018
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Microsoft's datacenters in the South Central U.S. region were affected by a lightning strike on Sept. 4, disabling Microsoft Azure and Office 365 services.
09/04/2018
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The Azure Active Directory Business to Business (B2B) service now supports the use of Google as an identity provider for connecting partners, Microsoft announced on Tuesday.
08/28/2018
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
Microsoft's forthcoming Windows Server product looks to be jam-packed with new features. Here are some of the standouts, specific to Hyper-V.
08/15/2018
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Intel, Microsoft and Red Hat issued security advisories on Tuesday for yet another speculative execution side-channel attack method, this time going by the "L1 Terminal Fault" name.
08/14/2018
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Microsoft last week announced plans for releasing a new BizTalk Server product, along with details about its Azure Integration Services vision.
08/13/2018
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Microsoft is consolidating a number of ports for Azure Stack in a move that should significantly reduce the hybrid cloud platform's attack surface and simplify network integration.
08/13/2018
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
Managing Integration Services used to be a pain until Microsoft began including it in all Windows OSes, starting with Windows Server 2016. But administrators of older platforms don't need to be left high and dry.
08/10/2018
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As Microsoft steadily shifts its focus to the cloud and ramps up release cadences for all of its code, the future of Windows is a pressing question.
08/09/2018
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If you've turned away from OneDrive or stopped paying attention to Microsoft's file hosting service, it may be time to take another look.
08/08/2018
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
There is actually quite a bit of VM info that is hidden from view, but that can be exposed through the Get-VM cmdlet if you know how. Brien walks you through the steps.
08/08/2018
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You're going to need a bigger network connection.
08/06/2018
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Organizations wanting to enable single sign-on access to Office 365 applications while using Ping Identity's PingFederate as the federation provider now have a more honed tool to get there.
08/03/2018
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
As Brien explains, creating a virtual disk in Windows Storage Spaces is akin to creating a map to the underlying raw storage that will be used by the volumes on the virtual disk.
08/02/2018
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
In this introduction to Microsoft's Storage Spaces technology, Brien walks you through the steps of creating a storage space and a virtual disk.
07/31/2018
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Microsoft on Monday announced a preview of IT roles management improvements in the Azure Portal for organizations using the Azure Active Directory identity and access management service.
07/30/2018