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Working with Azure AD Administrative Units

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Logical Division of Azure Active Directory Management Since its launch in 1999, Active Directory has used Organizational Units (OUs) to logically partition the directory. Despite discussions going back as far as 2014, the ability to partition Azure Active Directory in the same or an equivalent manner wasn’t available. Administrative Units (AUs), launched in public preview…

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How To Enable Advanced Teams Audio Features Including Hard Mute

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Microsoft Teams has advanced audio controls and here is how you can use them during your next meeting or presentation.

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How to Limit OneDrive Upload Bandwidth

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

By default, the OneDrive sync client upload rate isn’t limited. In this article, I explain when and how to limit upload bandwidth.

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Office 2010 Support Ends Today

Microsoft is shutting the doors on Office 2010 today and it’s time to update if you have not done so already.

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How to Set Up SMS-Based Authentication for Microsoft 365 and Azure Active Directory Users

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Configure SMS-based sign-in for Azure Active Directory and Microsoft 365 users.

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Microsoft’s Tenant to Tenant Migration Vision Lacks Coverage and Depth

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Image 1 Expand Those who listened to Microsoft’s virtual Ignite session on Supporting Mergers, Acquisitions, and Divestitures in Microsoft 365 might have concluded that Office 365 tenant restructuring was about to become possible. It’s not. What’s really happening is that Microsoft is taking on the easiest parts of tenant to tenant migrations: cross-tenant mailbox migration (now…

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Amazon Announces AWS Timestream

First announced back in November 2018, this past September 30th,  2020 Amazon announced that AWS Timestream was generally available.

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Paul Thurrott’s Short Takes: October 9

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Because it’s the end of the world as we know and I feel fine, this edition of Short Takes looks at Microsoft’s new flexible work-from-home edict, multiple Microsoft 365 outages, a weird Microsoft diversity issue, Microsoft’s app store guidelines, and so much more.

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Using Windows PowerShell Modules in PowerShell 7

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

With the advent of PowerShell Core and PowerShell 7, not all modules have been updated to be compatible with core engine updates or cross-platform accessibility. Instead of needing to switch between multiple versions of PowerShell depending on the tasks at hand, PowerShell 7 has added compatibility layers for existing Windows PowerShell compatible modules.

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Microsoft Revamps Outlook with One Outlook Vision

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

New Technologies at the Center of Outlook’s Future Outlook fans would be forgiven for thinking that all the oxygen in the Microsoft 365 collaboration ecosystem is being sucked out by Teams). But then a series of videos created for the virtual Ignite 2020 conference revealed that there’s life in this venerable product yet (given a…

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Microsoft’s Preparing a New OOBE for Windows 10

In the latest Windows 10 build released to Insider, version 20231, it is possible to enable a new OOBE, or Out of Box Experience.

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How to Optimize Windows 10 VDI for Improved Performance and Density

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

In this article, we’ll look at how to optimize Windows 10 virtual machines for improved performance and VM density.

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