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Microsoft announced the preview release of Azure Purview, a new data governance solution, as well as the "general availability" commercial release of Azure Synapse Analytics and Azure Synapse Studio.
12/03/2020
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Microsoft announced a new SharePoint Success Site template for SharePoint Online intranet users on Tuesday, adding another tool to better steer site creators.
12/01/2020
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Microsoft on Monday announced new Microsoft 365 and SharePoint Online improvements that are getting rolled out to subscribers.
11/30/2020
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Microsoft may have started something new by attempting to charge its customers for software that uses its application programming interfaces (APIs).
11/20/2020
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Microsoft announced on Tuesday that its Azure Hybrid Benefit program for Linux, previously at preview, is now commercially available.
11/17/2020
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Database protection goes far beyond backups; ensuring the quality and consistency of those backups is equally important. Here are the maintenance tasks that will make sure your databases stay in top shape.
11/16/2020
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Microsoft this week announced that the Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 Extended Security Update (ESU) program is approaching Year 2.
11/13/2020
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
We all know how important it is to back up your data, but should you be backing up your IT infrastructure, too? Here are the key factors that will tell you if you need to back up infrastructure items or if you can safely skip it.
11/12/2020
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Microsoft's plans for its enterprise video streaming platform could greatly improve how organizations manage, store and search through video data.
11/10/2020
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A more unified Microsoft Search reporting capability for IT pros overseeing SharePoint Online sites will be arriving sometime next month, Microsoft announced this week.
11/04/2020
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
The pandemic has forced IT pros to work much longer hours than usual to keep their organizations running. Reclaiming that personal time can be tough, but help is available from an unlikely source: Microsoft 365.
11/02/2020
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Microsoft on Thursday announced some Excel and Power BI enhancements that add "connected data types" on top of the standard strings and numbers options.
10/29/2020
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Occasionally, restarting a failed System Center Virtual Machine Manager job can leave your virtualization infrastructure in an unknown state. Here's how to avoid that.
10/28/2020
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Microsoft has joined the MEF, a nonprofit industry association that aims to standardize various software-defined networking (SDN) technologies used by service providers and enterprises.
10/27/2020
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One of the most useful features in Microsoft System Center Operations Manager is its reporting engine. Installing it can get a little tricky, though. Here's a step-by-step guide.
10/26/2020
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Microsoft this week introduced the Microsoft Azure Modular Datacenter as part of its overall Azure Space effort.
10/21/2020
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Microsoft on Tuesday announced the "semiannual channel" release of Windows 10 version 20H2, otherwise known as the "October 2020 Update," and it also released Windows Server version 20H2.
10/20/2020
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Microsoft this week described the launch of a so-called "Zero Trust Deployment Center," which essentially is a Web page landing point for accessing Microsoft documents on its zero-trust security approach.
10/16/2020
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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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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