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Brad Sams has more than a decade of writing and publishing experience under his belt including helping to establish new and seasoned publications From breaking news about upcoming Microsoft products to telling the story of how a billion dollar brand was birthed in his book, Beneath a Surface, Brad is a well-rounded journalist who has established himself as a trusted name in the industry.

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Microsoft To Change How It Updates Windows 7/8.1 and Server 2008 R2/2012 Starting In October

Microsoft is making big changes to the way that it will release patches for many of its popular Windows products that will impact how IT Pros patch their environments.

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Microsoft Sunsets Azure RemoteApp, Recommends Citrix XenApp ‘Express’

Microsoft has announced that they will be sunsetting Azure RemoteApp and is recommending users switch to a product made by Citrix.

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The Sams Report EP 51: Getting Edgy With Redstone 2

On this episode, I cover all of the Microsoft news this week including the first Redstone 2 build, playing with OneClip, and those mysterious cloud files are making progress.

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Google Buys Orbitera as It Continues to Chase Amazon and Microsoft in The Cloud Race

Google is continuing to expand its infastracutre to better compete with Amazon and Microsoft; Gartner is starting to recognize the company’s new initiatives and has listed them as a visionary.

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Delta Reminds Us Of The Importance Of Disaster Recovery

Delta is experencing a global outage of its computer system becuase of a power outage at its headquarters which raises the question as to why they don’t have a backup facility located in another part of the country.

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The Sams Report EP 50: Redstone in 2017 and 2016

On this episode, I cover all of the Microsoft news this week including now more feature releases this year, cutting features from Windows 10 Pro, Anniversary update and Xbox One S release.

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Microsoft: Two Windows 10 Feature Updates Coming In 2017

Microsoft has indicated that there will be no more feature updates to WIndows 10 in 2016 and that two updates are coming in 2017; one release is likely tied to a hardware refresh.

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Microsoft Cuts Windows 10 Rollback Period To 10 Days

Microsoft has quietly changed the rollback period in Windows 10 that allows you to move to revert to an older build of Windows from 30 to 10 days.

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Microsoft’s New Excel API Is A Leap Forward For The Spreadsheet Application

Microsoft has announced the general availability of its REST API for Excel that will extend the capaiblites of the spreadsheet application to new products.

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Microsoft Cuts More Features From Windows 10 Pro To Push Businesses To Enterprise Edition

Microsoft is removing more features from Windows 10 Pro to entice more businesses to move to the monthly subscription service that will launch this fall for the Enterprise edition of Windows 10.

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