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Microsoft Surface Hub Event Announced for April

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Microsoft has announced a Surface Hub event for April where the company is expected to finally do a deep dive on the hardware that is inside the collaboration device.

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Microsoft’s Upcoming Chromium-based Edge Browser Has A Few Features for the Enterprise

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Microsoft’s upcoming Edge browser that is based on Chromium has leaked and it contains a few knew features for the enterprise.

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Getting Started with Azure Adaptive Network Hardening

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Azure Security Center has included a new feature in preview called Adaptive Network Hardening which uses machine learning to analyze both ingress and egress traffic from your Azure virtual machines. Once it’s gathered enough data, I will make security recommendations to better harden your resources.

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Microsoft Responds to Dutch DPIA with Privacy Control for Office ProPlus

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Microsoft has announced that version 1904 of Office ProPlus (click to run) for Windows includes new privacy controls to allow organizations limit the data sent back by the Office apps. There’s no word about when they will deliver similar controls for Office for Mac, Office mobile, and the Office 365 server apps. Privacy is a real challenge in a world where cloud apps gather so much telemetry to measure performance, reliability, and other aspects, but it’s good that organizations will now be able to control how much they share with Microsoft.

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Disaster Recovery Trends for 2019

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Disaster recovery (DR) methods for protecting today’s IT infrastructure and data are going through a period of substantial change. Today businesses need to do more than protect against service failures and traditional downtime.

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Remote Management Using Puppet Bolt and Windows Subsystem for Linux

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

How to run remote commands on Windows Server using Puppet Bolt installed in Ubuntu with the help of the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL).

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How to Audit Permission Changes on Windows File Servers

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

How to set up auditing to track changes to permissions on Windows File Servers.

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Paul Thurrott’s Short Takes: March 22

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Because Windows 7 ain’t going to put itself out to pasture, this edition of Short Takes looks at Microsoft’s new Windows 7 end of support warning Google’s new browser ballot idea, insecure Nokia handsets, Apple’s coming news service, and Facebook’s inability to do anything right.

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Microsoft Retires Windows 10 Semi-Annual Channel Targeted Releases

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Microsoft is making changes Windows Update for Business and the Windows 10 release schedule.

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Office 365 Supervision Policies Now Include Teams

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Good news for those who like to know what’s going on in email: Office 365 supervision policies now support Teams personal chats and channel conversations in addition to email. And you can now use sensitive data types to find communications worth reading. Seriously, supervision policies are important to a certain section of the market, so it’s good that Teams messages now surface for review.

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Microsoft’s Big Bet on Virtualized Desktops Reaches Public Preview

Last Update: Jun 25, 2025

Announced at Ignite last year, Microsoft’s big bet on virtualized desktops is finally ready for public testing.

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Microsoft’s Extending its Security Graph to MacOS, Adding More Services to ATP

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Microsoft is continuing to build out its security services with a new offering for MacOS and new features for ATP as well.

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