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Patch Tuesday February 2018

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

This month’s cumulative update for the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update sees the OS build bumped to version 16299.248.

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Power BI and PowerApps Are Two Peas in a Pod

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Shane Young has already introduced you to building your first Power BI report and your first PowerApps app. Now, he is going to make sure you know about the coolest idea ever, combining the two.

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Starting Your SharePoint Migration From Scratch

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

It’s time to start seriously planning your migration to the cloud and starting with SharePoint has the ability to pay immediate dividends.

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How to Archive Inactive Office 365 Groups (and Teams)

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Now that so many apps (like Teams) create Office 365 Groups, it’s logical that some of the groups will serve their purpose and then need to be archived. Office 365 offers no way to do this, but conceptually it’s a reasonably easy task and something that PowerShell handles with aplomb.

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How to Develop and Test Software with Azure VMs

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Aidan Finn discusses Azure DevTest Labs, a way to provide self-service for developers and testers with helpful automation but budge control for the business.

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How to Use the Cloud as a DR Site

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

See how the cloud can enhance your backup and DR capabilities and make sure that you are prepared for the next interruption to your environment.

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Paul Thurrott’s Short Takes: February 16

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Because it was 62 degrees yesterday but it will still snow tomorrow, this edition of Short Takes looks at 5 years of Surface Pro, an unfixable Skype bug that was already fixed, Amazon v. Microsoft, and so much more.

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Introduction to the IT Roadmap Planning Tool for Microsoft 365

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

In this article. I will make an overview of the IT Roadmap Planning Tool for Microsoft 365.

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PowerShell DSC and Puppet — Why It Is Not Either/Or

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

In this Ask the Admin, Russell Smith discusses why Puppet and DSC together is often the best configuration management solution in mixed Windows/Linux environments.

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The Ups and Downs of the Simplified View of SharePoint in Teams

Last Update: Apr 15, 2025

Teams is one of Microsoft’s hubs for teamwork within Office 365. People work with documents all the time and the documents are in SharePoint Online libraries. However, Teams imposes its own view of documents and omits some of the functionality available through the SharePoint browser interface. This doesn’t seem to matter very much, except in the case of data governance.

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Microsoft DSC Environment Analyzer Creates Compliance Reports for Power BI

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Compliance is always a hot topic, so in this Ask the Admin, I’ll look at how Microsoft’s DSCEA can be used to create compliance reports for servers configured using PowerShell DSC.

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Getting Started with Windows Information Protection

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

We are going to dig into WIP’s requirements, how it works, and how you can use it.

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