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Microsoft Lists is the evolution of the SharePoint List feature. Several years ago, the Microsoft brain trust set out to make this ultra-powerful tool more accessible to the masses. By removing ‘SharePoint’ from the marketing pages, and making it ‘an app’, they succeeded in surprisingly productive ways. In this article, I will explain what is…

In this post, I want to discuss a topic that is getting an increasing amount of attention in Europe: the impact of cloud computing on the energy sector. This was already a concern before the current energy crisis started, but the power consumption of cloud computing is rarely out of the news now. First of…

In this article, I will explain what are affinity and anti-affinity rules and how to use them with Azure Stack HCI and Windows Server Hyper-V. If you’ve been using other hypervisors, you may already be familiar with affinity and anti-affinity rules, which are used to define the relationship between virtual machines and hosts. What are…

Cloud Conversations is a regular podcast that we’ll be featuring here on Petri. It’s about everything connected to cloud computing, including technologies like Azure, Microsoft 365, Power Platform, Microsoft Endpoint Manager (MEM), Microsoft Defender, Windows, Intune, and much more! Cloud Conversations: Katie McMillan on Information Security vs. Legacy Technology and Mentoring Katie McMillan is a rising star in the tech…

Windows 10 Pro, Enterprise, and Education editions contain a free virtualization software named Hyper-V. The underlying code works nearly the same as what’s provided in Windows Server. In this article, I will discuss how to enable Hyper-V on Windows 10, how to create your first virtual machine, and briefly talk about nested virtualization. How to…

The Intel vPro platform was first announced by the chip maker back in 2007, and it designates a collection of advanced CPU technologies for business PCs. As of today, it provides various features to increase security and manageability to support IT departments in organizations of all sizes.  In the debate of intel vPro vs EVO, in…

Cloud Conversations is a regular podcast that we’ll be featuring here on Petri. It’s about everything connected to cloud computing, including technologies like Azure, Microsoft 365, Power Platform, Microsoft Endpoint Manager (MEM), Microsoft Defender, Windows, Intune, and much more! Cloud Conversations: Fabian Bader: Protecting Azure AD hybrid identity and Microsoft Defender Fabian Bader is a cyber-security architect and Microsoft MVP….

Remote and virtual desktop solutions provide a flexible way for users to access remote services securely while maintaining control of how the users access those services. In this article, I’ll explain how FSLogix can optimize remote and virtual desktop environments by leveraging Profile Containers and FSLogix Application Masking. I’ll also detail the FSLogix features allowing…

As Microsoft puts it, teams and channels are where ‘real work gets done’. Let’s look more closely at Teams channels vs chats. Microsoft Teams is a complex tool that allows users to collaborate using a mixture of apps provided by Microsoft 365, like OneDrive files, SharePoint libraries, Microsoft Lists, Planner, Approvals, and many others. In…

Cloud Conversations is a regular podcast that we’ll be featuring here on Petri. It’s about everything connected to cloud computing, including technologies like Azure, Microsoft 365, Power Platform, Microsoft Endpoint Manager (MEM), Microsoft Defender, Windows, Intune, and much more! Cloud Conversations: Paul Huijbregts, Justen Graves, and Joe Anich on Microsoft Defender for Endpoint Paul Huijbregts, Justen Graves, and returning guest…