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Posey's Tips & Tricks
Microsoft took its time on Word's ink editing features, making them generally available only recently. Now that Brien has put them through their paces in the real world, here's his take on their usefulness.
07/17/2020
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Microsoft this week repeated some patch warnings to IT pros, with a couple of milestones coming up soon.
07/13/2020
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
With a new Cortana feature, Microsoft brushes off one of its old ideas for helping Outlook users stick to their tasks and answer their e-mails.
07/13/2020
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Microsoft outlined some recent security and compliance enhancements that are either already available or will be coming to Microsoft 365 tenancies using OneDrive and SharePoint by year's end.
07/10/2020
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Microsoft recently described new Teams features to come, with many of them aiming to make the remote videoconferencing experience feel more like an actual physical meeting.
07/09/2020
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
Microsoft's new personal finance tool hints at what's in store for next-generation Office applications, from more third-party integrations to subscription requirements.
07/09/2020
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Microsoft has hired the Romanian operations of software engineering and design services company Movial to develop an Android-based operating system solution for the Microsoft Devices business segment.
07/07/2020
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Microsoft on Monday gave notice that it will be ending support this year for the "workflows" component of SharePoint 2010 Online, as well as deprecating that component for SharePoint 2013 Online.
07/07/2020
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Microsoft last week described the confusion it is attempting to avoid by removing the client graphical user interface (GUI)-based controls to defer Windows 10 feature updates, starting with version 2004.
07/06/2020
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An old flaw in Microsoft Office is being used in targeted attacks, according to researchers at Menlo Security on Tuesday.
06/30/2020
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Microsoft has made it more difficult for organizations to defer a Windows 10 feature update, starting with Windows 10 version 2004, known as the "May 2020 Update."
06/25/2020
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Microsoft on Thursday outlined an updated calendar scheme for IT pros managing updates to Windows 10, Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager.
06/22/2020
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
Working with absolute and relative cell references in Excel, plus retrieving a value from a second sheet.
06/19/2020
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Microsoft this week announced a few sundry news bits for IT pros maintaining Windows and Microsoft 365 environments.
06/18/2020
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
Now that you know how to use Microsoft Word to make barcodes, the next step is to keep track of your barcoded items in Excel. Here's how.
06/17/2020
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Microsoft this week announced some minor name changes to its Windows 10 update process and its test releases, and it rolled out a new baseline tool for IT pros to help with Windows 10 Group Policy settings.
06/16/2020
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Microsoft announced a couple of notable Excel features this month for people who keep track of financial matters.
06/15/2020
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
In this three-part series, Brien shows how to use Microsoft Office to organize personal resources or create a small business inventory-tracking system. Step one: Generate barcodes in Word.
06/15/2020
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Microsoft this week announced a preview of nested virtualization on Windows 10 machines using AMD processors.
06/11/2020
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Microsoft on Tuesday released a total of 129 security patches, with 11 rated "Critical" and 118 deemed "Important" in severity.
06/09/2020
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Functional proof-of-concept code for a Server Message Block 3.1.1 vulnerability in newer Windows systems has been published, the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency warned on Friday.
06/08/2020
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Microsoft this week reminded IT pros that PC connections through virtual private networks can sometimes lead to time synchronization issues, possibly causing reduced functionality for end users.
06/05/2020
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Microsoft this week announced that it is working on a more simplified way for an organization to leverage local end user Internet connections when accessing Microsoft Stream and Microsoft 365 Live Events video feeds.
06/04/2020
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Microsoft this week indicated in an announcement that the MSIX App Attach capability in the Windows Virtual Desktop service can now be tried via a preview of the Windows 10 Enterprise Multisession operating system.
06/03/2020
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Microsoft this week announced that the ability to automatically classify documents using Microsoft Information Protection's sensitivity labels feature is now commercially released.
05/29/2020