IT Knowledgebase Articles

In today’s Ask the Admin, I discuss whether federated authentication is really the most secure way to set up hybrid authentication between Windows Server Active Directory and Office 365.

This article will provide a quick overview of Microsoft’s free Azure Migrate service. This service can help you assess your on-prem VMware environment to determine what workloads are ready for Azure and what your operational expense may look like by providing scaled cost estimates.

The landscape of technology is changing quickly which is why it’s important to understand how companies are staying relevant in the shifting computing landscape. This past week, I was in NYC with Paul Thurrott and Mary Jo Foley to talk Microsoft and it’s health in the technology sector.

Teams is on a roll at present with the number of organizations using the app accelerating past 500,000. Good planning and forethought help enormously to ensure the success of any deployment and Teams is no different. Whether you’re running a migration from Skype for Business Online or a greenfield deployment, thinking before deploying is always a good thing to do.

We know that buying hardware, software, and services can be challenging and we are looking for your feedback about the barriers you face when making a buying decision.

Office 365 retention policies help organizations keep information for as long as needed. But retention consumes storage. This isn’t a problem for Exchange Online, but it is for SharePoint Online, because files held in the Preservation Hold Library are charged against the tenant storage quota. This isn’t a reason to not use retention policies, but you should be careful.

Here’s how to quickly and easily install the Remote Server Administration Tools in Windows 10.

How to run code on a remote Windows Device from Visual Studio Code using PowerShell Remoting.

Azure Security Center has included a new feature in preview called Adaptive Network Hardening which uses machine learning to analyze both ingress and egress traffic from your Azure virtual machines. Once it’s gathered enough data, I will make security recommendations to better harden your resources.

Disaster recovery (DR) methods for protecting today’s IT infrastructure and data are going through a period of substantial change. Today businesses need to do more than protect against service failures and traditional downtime.