IT Knowledgebase Articles

In this Ask the Admin, I’ll look at new functionality and examine whether performance has improved.

If you are thinking about updating to SharePoint 2019, it’s time to take a serious look at how upgrades work in the real world.

The news that Microsoft will make mailbox auditing the default in Exchange Online is very welcome, as is the new mechanism they plan to use. Microsoft won’t get the new feature rolled out across Office 365 until the end of 2018, so there’s still a gap to fill to make sure that audit records are gathered for mailbox activity.

Aidan Finn talks about the new automatic management of tiered Azure blob storage by a new preview Azure feature called Lifecycle Management.

Aidan Finn discusses a new preview recycle bin feature for Azure blob storage called Soft Delete.

This month’s Patch Tuesday was a relatively quiet one. Microsoft made a minor update to Spectre v4 patches, issued critical updates only for desktop editions of Windows, and patched three vulnerabilities that had already been publicly disclosed.

In this Ask the Admin, I’ll show you the new Diagnostic Data Viewer in Windows 10.

Jasper Oosterveld compares the Modern SharePoint experience to the Classic SharePoint experience.

Microsoft made a mistake in their provisioning process for Exchange Online shared mailboxes, so lots of mailboxes have 100 GB quotas. Things are changing now and new shared mailboxes will have 50 GB quotas, unless you license them. Here’s how to check the status of your shared mailboxes.

Aidan Finn shows you how you can use the snapshot feature of managed disks to create an exact copy (including identity and SID) of a virtual machine.