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Is Microsoft’s Surface Hub 2 Delayed? It’s Complicated

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Microsoft has announced the availability of Surface Hub 2 for 2019 but it’s complicated and the next-gen OS won’t arrive until much later.

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Microsoft’s Windows Virtual Desktop Delivers A Modern Desktop with Azure

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Windows Virtual Desktop is a new cloud service that delivers a multi-user Windows 10 experience which is optimized to work with Office 365 Pro Plus.

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SQL Server 2019 Now Available In Public Preview

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Microsoft is making available the next generation of on-premises SQL Server software but be aware that this is a preview and not the final package.

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Windows Server 2019 Arrives in October

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Microsoft has announced that Windows Server 2019 will arrive next month and if you are still running 2008, you need to start planning your upgrade.

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Microsoft’s New Unified Search Looks to Crack the Internal Content Discovery Nut

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Microsoft is bringing a new unified search experience to Microsoft 365 that it hopes will making

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Microsoft Ignite 2018 – Azure Networking News

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

There was quite a bit of networking news from Ignite and Aidan breaks it down for you to digest.

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Microsoft Ignite 2018  – Azure Virtual Machines News

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Aidan breaks down all the Azure Virtual Machine news from Microsoft’s Ignite conference.

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No Skype for Business Online for Small Office 365 Tenants

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

In news gently leaking out, Microsoft says that new Office 365 tenants with 500 or fewer licensed seats will have to use Teams. These tenants won’t have the option to use Skype for Business Online. Then again, you have to ask the question whether they want or need to use Skype for Business Online? Existing tenants aren’t affected by the news.

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Should you be Using Disaster-Recovery-as-a-Service?

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

There’s no doubt that building disaster recovery (DR) plans for your organization can be tough. There are an amazing number of factors that you have to consider, plan for, and purchase.

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Paul Thurrott’s Short Takes: September 21

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Because half the planet is waiting for their new iPhone to arrive this morning, this edition of Short Takes looks at Microsoft coming victory in the cloud and its coming defeat in advertising, Microsoft Managed Desktop, another Google betrayal, and much, much more.

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Understanding Application Security Groups in the Azure Portal

Last Update: May 08, 2025

Aidan shows you how to deploy application security groups to create granular (per-NIC) network security group rules in the Azure Portal.

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Microsoft Releases Teams Administrative Roles

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

To make things easier for Office 365 tenant administrators, Microsoft has released four new administrative role for Teams. You can now assign these roles to other people and have them take care of areas like Teams general admin or the more complicated area of voice and audio meetings and calling. It’s a sign of increased maturity in the Teams product.

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