IT Knowledgebase Articles

It’s been a busy month for Windows, and in case you didn’t get a chance to catch all the news, here’s everything you need to know from January 2018.

One of the premium features for Office 365 Groups is the ability to use a naming policy so that all groups (and Teams) have a compliant name. The policy is a nice-to-have feature if you are concerned about having a well-organized directory with all your groups gathered in the same place. The question is whether enough business value is gained from a naming policy to make it worthwhile.

Aidan Finn shows you how to backup Web apps that are hosted as an Azure App Service in an App Service Plan.

How do I block Internet access for my Azure virtual machines?

The Windows 10 Fall Creators Update and Windows Server 1709 include a beta OpenSSH server and client. In this Ask the Admin, I will discuss how OpenSSH differs from PowerShell Remoting.

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

Jeff Hicks discusses Microsoft releasing the next generation of PowerShell tools as PowerShell 6.0.

The Meltdown vulnerability is clearly serious, especially if you run on-premises servers. But if you use Office 365, should you be worried? Well, maybe, but when you sign up for a cloud service, you transfer responsibility for understanding and responding to threat to the service provider. Over to Microsoft…

In this Ask the Admin, Russell Smith uses a PowerShell script to populate Active Directory with test user accounts.

Aidan Finn explains how you can use WebJobs to execute tasks on Azure App Service.