IT Knowledgebase Articles

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…

Installing and using OneDrive for Business will help your users be more productive with their files, from any place with an Internet connection. Do they know how to access the OneDrive website? Do they know how to use the OneDrive sync app in Windows? Read on to discover everything you need to know about how…

Windows 11 is the first version of Windows that Mac users can’t install natively on Mac. That’s because Intel-based Macs don’t need the minimum requirements for the new OS, while Apple Silicon Macs have dropped support for Apple’s Boot Camp multi-boot utility. In this article, I’ll explain how to install Windows 11 on Mac using…

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: Merethe Stave on ChatGPT, Community, and Viva Explorers Merethe Stave is a Senior Cloud Architect at Cloudway and a…

Tauri is a cross-platform programming framework based on Rust. In this article, you’ll learn why Tauri might take over from Electron as the cross-platform framework of choice and how the framework is used. What is the Tauri framework? Tauri is a relatively new cross-platform application framework. Many apps we use day-to-day, like Slack, Microsoft Teams,…

Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) is a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) to provide access to Windows 10 and Windows 11 desktops and applications virtually anywhere. It’s a solution hosted by Microsoft, which makes it secure by design, even though there is a lot of responsibility on the customer to ensure services are secure. In this article, I will…

Many IT pros probably take for granted sharing files on their predominantly Windows environments and local area networks. Although several protocols are available, Server Message Block (SMB) is clearly the most prevalent. This article examines how Windows file sharing works over ports 445, 139, 138, and 137. Quick overview of SMB SMB is a client‑server…

Both Windows 365 and Azure Virtual Desktop perform a similar function for end users, which is providing access to a Windows desktop. From the IT admin perspective though, they are fundamentally different solutions. In this article, we’ll walk through the major differences between Windows 365 vs Azure Virtual Desktop so that you can understand which solution,…

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: Dwayne Natwick on SC-100 Exam Guide & Working with Multi-cloud Solutions Dwayne Natwick is a Global Principal Cloud Security…

As energy prices continue to soar and IT departments are squeezed even tighter, many IT organizations are looking at how they can reduce energy costs in their datacenters and across their PC fleets. If you are still running outdated server hardware, haven’t blown the dust out of your rack cooling systems, and are still using…