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Should you be Using Disaster-Recovery-as-a-Service?

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

There’s no doubt that building disaster recovery (DR) plans for your organization can be tough. There are an amazing number of factors that you have to consider, plan for, and purchase.

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Understanding Application Security Groups in the Azure Portal

Last Update: May 08, 2025

Aidan shows you how to deploy application security groups to create granular (per-NIC) network security group rules in the Azure Portal.

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Modern SharePoint – Working with Document Templates

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Jasper Oosterveld takes a look at the new document template experience within the Modern SharePoint Document Libraries.

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Docker For Windows: Create a Linux Container on Windows 10

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Looking to create a Linux container in Windows 10? Russell shows you how with easy step-by-step instructions.

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Looking Forward to Office 365 at Ignite 2018

Last Update: Nov 19, 2024

Microsoft has scheduled 1,500+ sessions for the Ignite 2018 conference in Orlando next week. What’s happening for Office 365? Well, there are many sessions to attend, but the interesting thing is the huge number of sessions assigned to Teams compared to other workloads. SharePoint does OK, but Exchange is low, and Yammer gets a surprising allocation.

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Replicating Between File Servers Using Azure File Sync

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Aidan explains how you can easily synchronize folders between multiple file servers via Azure File Sync.

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Patch Tuesday September 2018

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Microsoft patches 62 vulnerabilities, 17 of which are rated Critical. Including a patch for the zero-day ALPC vulnerability that was publicly disclosed on Twitter at the end of August.

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Azure Update Management Part 2: Schedule Updates, Check Update Compliance, and Enroll Non-Azure VMs

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

In the first part of this series, Russell showed you how to enroll Azure virtual machines to Azure Update Management. In the final part, Russell demonstrates scheduling updates, checking update compliance, and how to enable Update Management on non-Azure VMs.

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Preserving Teams Messages for an Ex-Employee

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

When someone leaves your company, you might need to preserve their Office 365 data. Email, OneDrive, and SharePoint are straightforward, but what about Teams? As it turns out, a content search or an Office 365 DSR is a good way to retrieve information about Teams messages and information about their activities can be found in the audit log.

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How to Use Azure Update Manager

Last Update: Nov 19, 2024

In today’s Ask the Admin, Russell shows you how to enroll Azure virtual machines to Azure Update Management and provide a general overview of how the solution works.

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