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Posey's Tips & Tricks
For decades, group policies have been the go-to method for securing devices on a Windows network. In this age of BYOD, however, that may not be enough.
06/11/2019
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Microsoft used the occasion of its Business Applications Summit on Monday to announce its "Wave 2" product release plans for its Dynamics 365 enterprise resource planning solutions, as well as its Power Platform (Power BI, PowerApps and Flow).
06/10/2019
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Microsoft recently added an improvement to its Office Customization Tool for Office 365 users that lets IT pros save configuration files in Microsoft's datacenters (the "cloud") for later use, including access via URL links.
06/06/2019
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Microsoft described some newly released Office 365 perks in recent days.
06/03/2019
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
With hackers infiltrating one in three Office 365 customers, an IT pro's best bet is to be suspicious of almost everything.
05/30/2019
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The news associated with Microsoft's recent SharePoint Conference was the typical dense affair.
05/23/2019
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A federal computer security watchdog agency on Monday warned Office 365 users and their technology partners about common Office 365 misconfigurations.
05/13/2019
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A "Critical"-rated vulnerability in SharePoint Server versions that Microsoft issued a patch for back in March is now getting actively targeted, according to some security authorities.
05/10/2019
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
Reimaging might be the easiest option but, as Brien explains, there are certain situations where that just won't work.
05/10/2019
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
It's easy enough to tell if Office 365 is having performance issues (or is plain down). It's a litle harder to figure out whether the problem is with Microsoft or with you.
05/08/2019
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
A recent report suggests that Microsoft's own e-mail security protections have trouble differentiating between real and fraudulent messages from itself.
05/06/2019
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Microsoft announced some Teams news this week, including clarifications about its Commercial Cloud Trial, and a coming Teams communications blocking capability called "Information Barriers."
05/03/2019
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On Thursday afternoon a number of U.S.-based (and some Europe-based) users of Microsoft SharePoint, Azure, Office 365 and other cloud services reported an outage, with the downtime lasting at least an hour.
05/02/2019
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Microsoft announced this week that it will be reorganizing its Office 365 ProPlus privacy controls with an aim toward becoming more "transparent" about the information it collects.
05/01/2019
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Microsoft on Tuesday announced various Office 365 security and compliance improvements, mostly for Microsoft 365 subscribers.
04/30/2019
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Organizations using Office 365 ProPlus productivity suite applications are getting an alternative to Group Policy for managing user-based policies.
04/25/2019
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Microsoft announced on Wednesday that the Microsoft Teams PowerShell Module reached the "general availability" release stage.
04/24/2019
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Ongoing strength in its cloud business and a recovery on the Windows side helped power a strong third quarter for Microsoft, according to the company's latest financial results.
04/24/2019
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Microsoft described coming additions to its News pages in SharePoint Online that will be arriving this month or the next.
04/24/2019
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Microsoft on Monday announced that it's delivering its Files Restore feature for SharePoint Online and Microsoft Teams to Office 365 tenancies as early as this month.
04/22/2019
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Microsoft's Exchange Admin Center will be getting the ability to move Google G Suite calendar, contacts and e-mail data over to the Office 365 service "in the coming weeks."
04/17/2019
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
New "intelligent" features that Microsoft just announced aim to help Outlook users with wrangling meeting attendees and hunting down relevant documents.
04/15/2019
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
With 3-D support in apps like PowerPoint and SharePoint, Microsoft is showing skeptics how mixed reality can make a lot of business sense.
04/12/2019
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
Brien revisits the LinkedIn-powered Resume Assistant in Word, which has only gotten more intuitive and useful over the past year.
04/05/2019
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Microsoft this week announced a couple of changes coming to organizations that use its Exchange Online e-mail service.
04/03/2019