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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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Using a NAT Virtual Switch with Hyper-V

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Create a Windows 10 or Windows Server 2016 (WS2016) Hyper-V virtual switch that uses network address translation (NAT), enabling virtual machines to be isolated behind a single shared IP address on the host.

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Azure Autoscaling with VMSS and Managed Disks, Part 1: Concepts

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Learn how Virtual Machine Scale Sets and Managed Disks make Azure Autoscale easier to work with.

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Configuring VM Networking on a Hyper-V NAT Switch

Last Update: Nov 19, 2024

Get an explanation of methods you can use to configure the IPv4 address configuration of a Hyper-V virtual machine that is connected to a NAT virtual switch on Windows 10 or Windows Server 2016 (WS2016).

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Why Contacts Are a Problem for the Outlook Apps

Last Update: Nov 19, 2024

My transition to an iPhone is fine and I have mastered Outlook for iOS. That is, except for Contacts, which are a problem because Outlook must obey Apple’s rules. And I won’t even discuss searching.

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Microsoft Brings New Capabilities to HDInsight and DocumentDB

Last Update: Nov 19, 2024

Microsoft is announcing new features for HDInsight and DocumentDB this week at the Strata Hadoop + World conference.

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