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Microsoft announced last week that it's now possible to use Windows Admin Center with Windows Server 2016 to manage hyperconverged infrastructure, although it's still at the testing stage.
04/23/2018
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Network printing doesn't have to be a free-for-all, where anyone with a connection can access any printer on a given network. Microsoft provides a few basic controls to secure and manage access.
04/23/2018
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Microsoft is planning to stop building its OneNote desktop application, with the current OneNote 2016 product being the last of its kind.
04/19/2018
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Microsoft this week announced new passwordless sign-in support, using FIDO2, that's coming to the spring Windows 10 release and now available at preview.
04/18/2018
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Microsoft has answered a few press questions about the newly released Windows Admin Center management tool.
04/13/2018
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Microsoft on Thursday renamed Project Honolulu, calling it the "Windows Admin Center," and released it for use in production environments.
04/12/2018
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Microsoft on Tuesday announced a new channel-release preview of Windows Server build 17639, highlighting two new features.
04/10/2018
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AMD has released microcode updates to its original equipment manufacturing partners to address Spectre variant 2 attack methods for Windows 10 systems.
04/10/2018
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Microsoft has brought back the original Windows 3.0 File Manager as an open source Visual Studio solution that can run on Windows 10.
04/10/2018
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
For starters, don't be surprised if Microsoft takes an axe to Server Manager in favor of Project Honolulu.
04/09/2018
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Microsoft lets Windows Server 2016 users allocate CPU resources at a much more granular level than before. To get started, here's an overview of basic CPU topology.
04/02/2018
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Windows Phone may be dead in the water, but based on Microsoft's recently disclosed plans for Windows 10 on ARM, the company's mobile aspirations are still going strong.
03/30/2018
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The next Windows Server semiannual channel release will arrive in the first half of this year, and it'll be known as "Windows Server version 1803," Microsoft announced Thursday.
03/29/2018
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Security patches to protect Windows 7 from Meltdown reportedly opened up a different, gaping security flaw in the way the OS protected memory.
03/27/2018
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Linux developers got added support from Microsoft this week with the publication of some Windows Subsystem for Linux open source code on the GitHub repository.
03/27/2018
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As far as set-it-and-forget-it backup solutions go, there are few more convenient than the File History feature that's built natively into Windows 10.
03/23/2018
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
Microsoft gives you the ability to create a comprehensive backup of your entire computer in Windows 10. You just have to do a little digging to find it.
03/21/2018
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Windows Server 2019 will reach general availability "in the second half of calendar year 2018," according to a Microsoft announcement today.
03/20/2018
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Microsoft this week announced a bug bounty program to solicit security-researcher contributions about "speculative execution" side-channel CPU vulnerabilities.
03/15/2018
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Security researchers have found a logical flaw in the Credential Security Support Provider protocol used by Remote Desktop and WinRM and affecting all supported versions of Windows.
03/14/2018
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Microsoft announced on Tuesday that it removed an anti-virus compatibility check for some Windows 10 version 1709 devices, and it expanded some Spectre microcode approvals.
03/13/2018
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Windows 10 in "S mode" soon will be available in all Windows 10 editions, and Microsoft plans to drop a proposed charge for users wanting to switch from S mode.
03/08/2018
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Microsoft is readying a new machine learning platform for Windows 10 that will help developers add artificial intelligence (AI) functionality into their apps.
03/07/2018
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Microsoft added a couple of Linux operating system distros to the Windows Store this week, and described some of its ongoing open source work.
03/06/2018
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Microsoft this week described best practices for identity security when using Azure Active Directory or Windows Server Active Directory Federation Services.
03/05/2018