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Cloud Security: Create a Custom RBAC Role in Microsoft Azure

Last Update: Feb 07, 2025

In this Ask the Admin, Russell Smith shows you how to add a custom Azure role for restarting virtual machines.

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Microsoft’s Next Great Challenge, Selling Microsoft 365

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Microsoft is embarking on its next great SaaS challenge, convincing the enterprise that Microsoft 365 is not only a good service but that its software is better than the competition.

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Cray Supercomputers in Microsoft Azure

Last Update: Jul 29, 2025

Microsoft and Cray have announced a partnership that will bring physical Cray supercomputers to the Azure cloud.

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Managing Privileged Access to Active Directory

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

In this Ask the Admin, Russell Smith looks at what you need to take into consideration when planning access to privileged AD groups.

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Big Brother Watches Your Email with Office 365 Supervision Policies

Last Update: Nov 19, 2024

Office 365 includes supervision policies to allow tenants to monitor email traffic between selected groups to ensure that they comply with regulations. Supervision policies are easy to set up, but be careful about the workload involved in processing the captured email.

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Understanding Microsoft 365

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

In this post, I’ll discuss one of the hottest subjects that my customers want to learn more about; Microsoft 365.

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What Are Azure Containers — For IT Pros

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Aidan Finn discusses what Azure Containers can do and how they can be used and managed in Azure.

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Paul Thurrott’s Short Takes: November 3

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Because there’s a new Call of Duty out and I feel a, ahem, cold coming on, this edition of Short Takes looks at the Xbox One X, a very public Edge crash, a free way to upgrade to Windows 10, and more.

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Microsoft Outlines What’s New in the Fall Creators Update for IoT

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Microsoft is bringing several new features to its IoT platform with the Fall Creators update to increase security and make the devices easier to manage.

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What Are Logic Apps — For IT Pros

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Aidan Finn explains how Azure’s Logic Apps service can be used to orchestrate activities in the platform-as-a-service side of Azure.

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Microsoft Turns up the Heat on Oracle, Amazon, and IBM Databases

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Microsoft is turning up the heat on Amazon and Oracle by offering a new tool that will take the pain out of migrating databases and they are offering it for free.

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Exchange Online Protection Highlights Unauthenticated Senders

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Exchange Online Protection now highlights unauthenticated users – or messages that come from people who cannot prove their identity. Instead of a nice picture (or avatar), you see a question mark for the user. Maybe this might make people think twice about the opportunity to send money to someone to liberate funds held in a bank. Just maybe.

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