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Amazon Takes Its Microsoft Fight to On-Premises Hardware with Linux 2

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Amazon is expanding the footprint of its cloud platform with Linux 2, an on-premises software package that can be used to build out a hybrid-IT shop but it does have one key drawback.

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Google Chrome Versus Microsoft Edge in the Enterprise

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

In today’s Ask the Admin, Russell Smith looks at the pros and cons of each browser for use in the enterprise.

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Creating Your First PowerApps App Using a SharePoint List — Part 2

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Get connected to PowerApps and create your first app.

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Microsoft Posts Office 365 Information Protection Guide for GDPR

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Microsoft has a new Information Protection guide to help Office 365 tenants prepare for GDPR. The guide is incomplete because it focuses on SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business, but it contains some good information that will help companies figure out what they need to do to prepare for the May 25, 2018 deadline. Expect more guides of this type to appear in the future.

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Paul Thurrott’s Short Takes: December 29

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Because there’s a chill in the air, this short New Year edition of Short Takes looks at Windows Hello security, Surface Pro with LTE, and much, much more.

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Creating Your First PowerApps App Using a SharePoint List

Last Update: Nov 19, 2024

If you have been on the internet at all in the last year and read anything about the Office 365 ecosystem, you have heard of PowerApps.

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Modern SharePoint Web Parts Updates — Text Web Part

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Jasper Oosterveld compares the Modern SharePoint experience to the Classic SharePoint experience.

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The Highs and Lows of Office 365 in 2017

Last Update: Jul 04, 2025

Lots of good things happened in the world of Office 365 during 2017. More people than ever before use the service, new applications and functionality appeared, and Microsoft delivered a robust service. On the other hand, a few lows happened as well, as sometimes bad decisions and miscommunication soured the experience. But overall, 2017 was good and laid a great foundation for 2018.

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Azure Site Recovery Deployment Planner for VMware and Hyper-V

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Microsoft has finally released the Azure Site Recovery Planner to help you understand, design, and size your disaster recovery solutions in Azure for on-premises VMware and Hyper-V deployments.

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Amazon Launches Amazon Linux 2

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

In a recent post on the AWS blog, Amazon announced the latest version of its Linux offering, Amazon Linux 2.

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Azure Launches Archive Storage and Storage Account v2

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Aidan Finn explains what Microsoft’s General Purpose v2 (GPv2) storage account is and how this is related to the general availability of tiered blob storage.

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Azure SQL Versus SQL Server In An Azure VM

Last Update: Nov 19, 2024

Aidan Finn compares and contrasts the two options for deploying SQL Server in Microsoft Azure, Azure SQL, and SQL Server running in a virtual machine.

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