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It’s time for you and your team to take a short break from your busy work demands and deadlines to refresh, revitalize and invest in yourselves at ESPC22, Nov 28 – Dec 1 – Europe’s premier Microsoft technologies conference. ESPC22 offers you the choice of 9 expert-led full-day Microsoft 365 and Azure tutorials. This is…

In this guide, we’ll explain how to back up Active Directory (AD) by performing a full server backup, a system state backup, or by using Azure backup. Active Directory is a key component of your Microsoft Windows network, and you really need to protect it by performing regular backups. It’s really essential to have a…

In this article, we’ll explain the basics of networking, networking architecture, networking types, and networking security. We’ll also detail what is TCP, subnetting, and all other core networking technologies you should know about. Sharing data and resources between individuals, and across industries and countries, is a significant part of daily life. Establishing a computer network provides…

In this article, we’ll explain how to install Grammarly for Word and Outlook and why it can be a great writing assistant for both students and professional writers. Grammarly is a popular AI-powered writing assistant that allows users to check spelling, punctuation, grammar, clarity, and writing style in their documents. How to install Grammarly for…

In this guide, we’ll explain how to create and connect to an AWS RDS MySQL database. Amazon RDS is a service that lets you easily set up and configure relationship databases with various types of database instances in the Amazon Web Services cloud. With Amazon’s relational database service, you don’t have to manage databases on-premises….

The Microsoft Teams Exploratory experience is a free trial license that Microsoft has implemented to help new businesses and startups to get started with Office 365. It gives access to all the same features as Microsoft Teams, but with a limited number of users. In this article, we’ll explain why the Teams Exploratory experience can…

Windows Autopatch is a new Microsoft service that organizations can use to automate the patching of Windows, Microsoft 365 apps for Enterprise, Microsoft Edge, and Microsoft Teams. It aims to complete patching cycles within the least amount of time, whilst keeping downtime to a minimum. In this guide, we’ll show you how to configure Windows Autopatch…

Cloud Conversations is a weekly 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 – Kat Beedim on Introversion, Microsoft Inspire, and Viva Engage Kat Beedim is a Microsoft MVP and Microsoft Solutions…

System Restore on Windows 10 is a crucial backup feature included in the OS. It lets you create restore points before installing any new apps, drivers, and Windows updates. If something you installed on your PC starts causing issues, you’ll always have the option to go back to a previous restore point and get your…

In this article, I will show you how to share files in Teams. Not only that, but I will also explain how file sharing in Microsoft Teams actually works and where your files are stored after you share them. For those of us who learned how to use a computer before the cloud era, the…