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Posey's Tips & Tricks
Brien Posey explains how to convert an expired Windows Server evaluation VM into a production server using DISM and proper license activation steps.
06/03/2026
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News
Microsoft used its Build developer conference Tuesday to push Copilot deeper into agentic AI, announcing Microsoft Scout, a new "always-on" personal agent designed to operate across Microsoft 365 apps, coordinate work in the background and act within enterprise security controls.
06/02/2026
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Microsoft is making its agentic AI platform for research and development generally available, extending the company’s AI strategy beyond workplace copilots and developer tools into scientific and engineering workflows.
06/02/2026
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A week after Microsoft Fabric's worldwide network-access issue, customers still have little information about what caused the outage or how Microsoft plans to prevent a repeat.
05/26/2026
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News
Microsoft is now accelerating its Linux strategy with the debut of Azure Linux 4.0 and the general availability of Azure Container Linux.
05/19/2026
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New integration aims to embed identity governance workflows directly into enterprise collaboration environments.
05/18/2026
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
A PowerShell-based Hyper-V health check can be automated through Task Scheduler to provide a daily status report while also running hourly in silent mode unless a problem is detected.
05/05/2026
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
A PowerShell-based Hyper-V health monitor can give admins a quick, color-coded view of host, VM, replication, disk and memory issues before they become larger problems.
05/01/2026
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New capability aims to streamline high-availability operations and reduce downtime in backup environments.
04/29/2026
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Changes aim to improve security by phasing out outdated protocols and authentication methods.
04/28/2026
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New preview feature allows users to trigger cloud PC provisioning on demand.
04/28/2026
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
A failed Hyper-V replication setup prompts a PowerShell-based approach to building lightweight, do-it-yourself health monitoring without the cost or complexity of an enterprise-grade tool
04/28/2026
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Public Preview 2 feature aims to simplify management of virtualized environments from a centralized interface.
04/21/2026
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Updates aim to extend data protection and cyber resilience across hybrid storage environments.
04/15/2026
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Microsoft this week released one of the largest Patch Tuesday bundles in its history, delivering fixes for 163 new Microsoft CVEs in a month that includes three zero-days and eight Critical-rated vulnerabilities.
04/15/2026
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New integration expands model options for developers building and deploying AI applications.
04/14/2026
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Microsoft’s new Azure database savings plans promise more flexible, cross-service cost reductions than traditional reservations, giving IT teams another lever to manage rising cloud database spend while preserving deployment options across regions and platforms.
04/10/2026
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New preview offering provides visibility into cloud PC performance and usage across enterprise environments.
04/10/2026
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New event targets practical AI use cases for small and mid-sized businesses seeking measurable results.
04/02/2026
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
SD cards may be cheap and portable, but their limited write endurance, greater risk of corruption and physical loss, uneven long-term reliability, and poor cost-per-capacity make them a weak choice for dependable data backups.
04/02/2026
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News
Microsoft announced three new artificial intelligence models Thursday, marking an expansion of its MAI (Microsoft AI) portfolio with offerings designed to compete directly on price and performance with others, including Google.
04/02/2026
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New integration enables automation and orchestration of cloud PC workflows across enterprise systems.
04/02/2026
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New offering is aimed at taming the operational complexity and unpredictable spending that often come with large-scale Desktop-as-a-Service deployments.
03/31/2026
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
While Hyper-V largely handles NUMA placement automatically, admins can still hurt VM performance by overallocating virtual CPUs past a single physical CPU's core count, making it important to size VMs to stay within one NUMA node when possible.
03/26/2026
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
NUMA in Hyper-V isn't something you have to master--it's something you need to avoid accidentally breaking, and understanding a host's NUMA layout helps you do that.
03/24/2026