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Leveraging OneNote: Making a Kanban system

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

OneNote is a powerful tool that Microsoft offers for free, in this post, Joe shows you how to get the most out of this note taking application.

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In Praise of Inactivity – Why Exchange Online inactive mailboxes are so valuable

Last Update: Nov 19, 2024

Inactive mailboxes are only available inside Exchange Online and don’t exist outside Office 365. Litigation or in-place holds keep inactive but soft-deleted mailboxes in a state in which their data is easily accessible for compliance and recordkeeping purposes.

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Microsoft’s Desktop App Converter Heads To The Windows Store

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Microsoft’s desktop app converter, also known as the Centennial bridge, is heading to the Windows store with the hopes that more developers will port their apps to the storefront.

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Secure Standalone Windows Servers Using Security Compliance Manager

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Russell Smith shows you how to use the localGPO command line tool in Security Compliance Manager (SCM) to apply security templates to computers that are not part of an Active Directory domain.

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Microsoft Usurps Oracle and Salesforce.com — Inks Huge Dynamics Deal at HP Inc

Last Update: Nov 19, 2024

HP buys 26,500 seats of Microsoft Dynamics, displacing Salesforce and Oracle. It’s a huge deal, cementing Microsoft as the SaaS leader, according to analysts. As goes SaaS, so goes IaaS and PaaS? Scott Guthrie certainly thinks so, arguing that only Amazon stands between Microsoft and the cloud top spot. Who’d a thunk it…

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Understanding Windows Server 2016 Licensing

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Aidan Finn describes some of the significant changes to Windows Server licensing that are coming with Windows Server 2016, that are sure to catch most of you by surprise.

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Create GPOs Using the Security Compliance Manager Tool

Last Update: Jul 08, 2025

In today’s edition of Ask the Admin, Russell Smith will show you how to export security templates as Group Policy Objects (GPOs).

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Deploy OMS Monitoring to Azure Virtual Machines

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

In this post, Aidan will show you two ways to deploy Azure Log Analytics (OMS) monitoring to Azure virtual machine, and to some of the services running on those machines.

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Data Transformations with PowerShell Classes, Part 2

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

I’m having fun with this series and hope you are as well. In my previous article, I introduced you to PowerShell classes and I built a class that I can use with my movie data file. If you are just joining us, you really should take a few minutes to read the previous articles (Making Data…

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The Sams Report EP 55: Hardwaring In October, Consoles All Year Long

Last Update: Sep 24, 2024

On this episode, I cover all of the Microsoft news this week including a hardware event for October, changes in Windows Insider provisioning, Scropio, Sony and it’s impossible to avoid those iPhones.

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External Access for Office 365 Groups

Last Update: Nov 19, 2024

Microsoft has put a huge amount of emphasis on Office 365 Groups as the basis for team-based collaboration for its cloud service. Collaboration often requires input from external people and that hasn’t been possible until now. The announcement of external user support for Office 365 Groups is welcome, even if it is restricted in part.

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Paul Thurrott’s Short Takes: September 9

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Because it’s Apple’s world and we just live in it, this edition of Short Takes focuses on the U.S. Army migration to Windows 10, a rumored Surface AIO, a HoloLens tour comes to Microsoft retail stores, more Surface phone rumors, another Xbox One victory, and more.

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