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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.
10/15/2020
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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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Microsoft on Monday noted the end of support for Office 2010 and Office 2016 for Mac, which are "perpetual-license" versions of Microsoft's productivity suite software.
10/14/2020
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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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Cloud data management and backup solutions company Veeam has bought its partner Kasten, a provider of Kubernetes backup and disaster recovery solutions.
10/06/2020
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Microsoft announced on Monday that it's planning to end its 20-year-old Open License program for small and midsize organizations, starting on Jan. 1, 2022.
10/01/2020
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Microsoft announced last week in an Exchange Teams post and in at least one Ignite session that it will offer new application server products next year, but only via subscription-based licensing models.
10/01/2020
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Microsoft has announced the release of its "Digital Defense Report," which is described as "a reimagining" of Microsoft's "Security Intelligence Report" (SIR).
09/29/2020
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Microsoft has affirmed its software-defined networking infrastructure support for telecom companies, especially as they move more toward rolling out 5G wireless services.
09/28/2020
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Microsoft took the occasion of its Ignite event last week to rebrand its enterprise security solutions for premises and cloud environments, mostly by putting "Microsoft Defender" on their names.
09/28/2020
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Project Cortex team members Naomi Moneypenny and Dan Holme explain the origins of SharePoint Syntex, how it benefits orgs with content management problems, and addresses security and governance concerns.
09/25/2020
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
Your personal data is just as vulnerable to disk failures and ransomware as corporate data. But right now, there are threats that are more difficult to protect against: wildfires and hurricanes.
09/24/2020
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Microsoft described a couple of developments along SharePoint product lines during a Tuesday Ignite online keynote talk.
09/23/2020
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Microsoft flooded virtual attendees of its Ignite conference with general availability announcements ranging from the high-profile Project Cortex to Azure SQL to major and minor components of Microsoft's three clouds.
09/22/2020
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Back on dry land after spending two years submerged in the waters off the coast of Scotland, Project Natick, Microsoft's experimental underwater datacenter prototype, has been deemed a success.
09/15/2020
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The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) affirmed in a Monday announcement that code is publicly accessible that could be used to exploit a "Critical"-rated Netlogon vulnerability in newer Windows Server versions.
09/14/2020
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Microsoft has been working to make it easier for organizations to deploy its Windows Virtual Desktop (WVD) service, according to a recent podcast chat.
09/14/2020
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Microsoft on Tuesday announced limited-time offerings for Microsoft Teams users, particularly when organizations select its Audio Conferencing or Advanced Communications add-on plans.
09/10/2020
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Microsoft on Tuesday released security patches to address 129 common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVEs) this month in its software products.
09/08/2020
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Microsoft on Tuesday announced the ability to run Windows 10 Pro or Enterprise operating systems on Surface Hub 2S conference devices.
09/02/2020
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Members of the Windows Insider Program can now test the next long-term servicing channel (LTSC) release of Windows Server, Microsoft announced on Wednesday.
08/27/2020
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Microsoft has renamed Microsoft Forms Pro, a product for sending surveys, to "Microsoft Dynamics 365 Customer Voice."
08/19/2020
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Microsoft released August security patches on Tuesday, addressing 120 common vulnerabilities and exposures.
08/11/2020
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
Microsoft's Hyper-V snapshots feature is a convenience, not a backup replacement. But with different cloud vendors using the term "snapshots" in different ways, that's easy to forget.
07/29/2020
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The Windows Virtual Desktop (WVD) service now has Azure Portal integration, plus Audio/Video (A/V) Redirect support for Microsoft Teams client sessions, Microsoft announced on Monday.
07/28/2020