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Office 365 Adoption Content Pack for Power BI Coming Soon

Last Update: Nov 19, 2024

After an extensive trial, Microsoft is preparing to release the Office 365 Adoption Content Pack to all enterprise tenants. Gaining insight into how people use the Office 365 applications will help tenants maximize their investment in the cloud. However, the content pack is not a silver bullet and won’t make your organization any more effective than it is today.

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Microsoft Shares Interesting Secure Azure Network Design

Last Update: Nov 19, 2024

Microsoft recently shared a detailed design for a secure network deployment in Azure, based on the United Kingdom’s cloud security principles. The focus of Microsoft’s article was on the UK, but we can use this design as a basis for other deployments.

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Azure Autoscaling with VMSS and Managed Disks, Part 2: Deployment

Last Update: Nov 19, 2024

Russell Smith shows you how to deploy VMs in a Virtual Machine Scale Set with autoscaling enabled and a load balancer on the front end.

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Driving Adoption for Office 365, Part 2

Last Update: Nov 19, 2024

Office 365 is an incredibly powerful Cloud platform build on four strong pillars: collaboration, mobile, intelligent and trust. Although these are very strong characteristics, instant adoption isn’t guaranteed. Learn how to drive adoption for Office 365 in this new series of articles on Petri.com.

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Extend the Native Capabilities of DSC with the Script Resource

Last Update: Nov 19, 2024

Many server configuration settings can be set using native Desired State Configuration (DSC) resources. Learn how to do more with DSC using the Script resource and your PowerShell skills.

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Microsoft Finalizes Creators Update, Version for China’s Government

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Microsoft has built a version of Windows 10 for the Chinese government that does not contain ‘backdoors’; the company is also in the final stages of approving the Creators update.

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Microsoft’s Flawed Plan to Auto-Generate Office 365 Groups for Managers

Last Update: May 24, 2025

Microsoft plans to auto-generate Office 365 Groups for managers to enable them to collaborate better with employees. Sounds good, until you realize that the reporting relationships stored in Azure Active Directory drive the process. And we all know how reliable that information really is.

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What Is Azure AD Privileged Identity Management?

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Learn how Azure Active Directory Privileged Identity Management can improve tenant security.

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The 8 New Features That Have Improved User Experience in SharePoint 2016

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

This video explains the benefits of 8 new handy features in SharePoint 2016 that improve the user experience.

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The Productivity Wars Are Heating Up; Google and Amazon Take on Microsoft

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Google and Amazon both have their sights set on Office 365 as they hope to tap into the lucrative productivity software services that Microsoft has pioneered.

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Paul Thurrott’s Short Takes: March 17

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Because I’ve pilkunnussija’d and I can’t stop correcting my own writing, this edition of Short Takes looks at a Surface Book 2 report, Windows Vista’s EOL, a controversial Windows 10 change, and more.

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Understanding Azure Storage: Storage Types and Redundancy

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Learn about the different storage services and redundancy settings in Azure Storage.

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