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Microsoft Lands $927 Million Pentagon Contract

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Microsoft has landed a lucrative contract with the Pentagon to the tune of nearly a billion dollars to provide technical service for the government agency.

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Exchange Online Protection’s Ongoing Battle Against Malware

Last Update: Nov 19, 2024

It’s impossible for an email hygiene service like Exchange Online Protection (EOP) to suppress every possible piece of malware that attempts to penetrate Office 365. Even the broad array of anti-malware techniques will let some small percentage of spam through. Email administrators need to be on guard all the time.

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Microsoft’s Finalizing Creators Update, Redstone 3 Development is Around the Corner

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Microsoft is winding down development of Windows 10 Redstone 2 in January which means the engineering efforts will shift to Redstone 3.

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The New Easy Way to Backup Azure Virtual Machines

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Discover how to use a new mechanism to enable backup of Azure IaaS virtual machines, which reduces the amount of clicking that you will need to do in the Azure Portal.

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Sponsored: Automated Permissions Management: Turn a Mountain into a Molehill

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Learn how to effectively and efficiently manage access to your organization’s data.

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How Office 365 Collects and Reports Audit Data

Last Update: Nov 19, 2024

Auditing is usually one of the last things that are considered for implementation in an IT system. The Office 365 audit log gathers a lot of information. Can you use it?

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Paul Thurrott’s Short Takes: December 16

Last Update: Nov 19, 2024

Because 3 degrees is a terrible temperature in both Fahrenheit and Celsius, this edition of Short Takes focuses this week’s news about Microsoft and the tech industry.

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Deploy Domain Controllers as Azure Virtual Machines

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

This guide will show you how to deploy an Azure virtual machine as a domain controller (DC).

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Delegate a Domain to Azure DNS

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Learn how to delegate a domain name that you own to Azure DNS.

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Shane’s SharePoint Watercooler News

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Shane’s quick update on SharePoint and related news you might have missed and his two cents on how the news applies to you and your work.

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Windows Server Docker images

Sponsored: Introduction to Docker Images on Windows Server

Last Update: Nov 14, 2023

Docker Images are the transportable component of containers and provide a template that describes what each container looks like. There are two base Docker images provided by Microsoft, Windows Server 2016 Core and Nano, which can be used as a starting point for your containers.

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Office 365 Mailbox Quotas Swelling to 100 GB

Last Update: Nov 19, 2024

Microsoft is increasing the default mailbox quota for the Office 365 E3 and E5 plans to 100 GB. That’s quite a lot of space to fill, but Microsoft has good reasons for upping the limit.

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