Blog

Microsoft’s Bringing More Data Driven Products To Market Starting Today

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Microsoft is making Power BI publish to the web generally available and Power BI Embedded will reach GA on July 11th; the company is also announcing a preview of Cortana Intelligence with Bing Predicts too.

View Article

Kevin Turner Leaves Microsoft, Will Become CEO of Citadel Securities

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Kevin Turner’s 11-year run as Chief Operating Officer at Microsoft has come to a close: Citadel Securities announced this morning that Mr. Turner will become its CEO after a brief transition period.

View Article

Back Up and Restore Azure Premium Storage VMs

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

After lots of feedback, Microsoft Azure has added public preview support for backing up and restoring virtual machines that use Premium Storage. This article will explain what that means for you. Background Most people who are new to cloud or hosting assume that any hosted virtual machine will be backed up by default and for…

View Article

Using RemoteApp with Azure AD Domain Services

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Microsoft recently announced that Azure RemoteApp can be used with Azure AD Domain Services (still in preview) for domain authentication, without running domain controllers as virtual machines in Azure.

View Article

Understanding How Business IT Is Being Attacked

Last Update: Nov 19, 2024

Aidan explains, using recent statistics, how the nature of attacks has changed from floppy disks and firewall probes, to a more intelligent system that targets human weaknesses.

View Article

Microsoft AppSource Aims to Make It Easier To Discover Business Apps

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Microsoft AppSource solves one of the company’s big problems with its developer ecosystem, discoverability; the new search engine is now live and ready for use.

View Article

Microsoft Updates Skype for Business Mac Preview

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

A new version of the Skype for Business for Mac Preview is now available, adding new contacts and presence, IM, peer-to-peer calling, group video calling, and conversation history capabilities.

View Article

Microsoft to Bundle App-V and UE-V with Windows 10 Going Forward

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Microsoft announced this week that it will take the long-awaited step of moving two key client virtualization solutions—App-V and UE-V—from its Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack (MDOP) suite of utilities and bundle them for free with Windows 10 Enterprise and Education.

View Article

Enabling HTTPS for PowerShell Remoting in Windows Server 2012 R2

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

In today’s Ask the Admin, I’ll kill two birds with one stone by showing you how to enable secure PowerShell Remoting in Azure virtual machines (VMs) and on-premises servers running Windows Server 2012 R2.

View Article

Getting the Most Out of Office 365: Revisiting Office 365 Groups

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Teams who communicate well understand what needs to be done, what is being worked on, and what is coming up next. To many in the business world, communication is synonymous with email but what if there was an easier way to chat

View Article

Microsoft Hangs Small Business Bait For Office 365, Free Skype Meetings

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Microsoft has announced a new Skype meetings feature today that anyone can use but the company is quietly hoping that this offering will entice small businesses to start utilizing Office 365 as it has two major restrictions.

View Article

Blackberry Finally Says Goodbye to Classic Phones

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Blackberry has transitioned its devices, in turn, to touch-based Blackberry 10 and Android systems, but it has thus far always kept at least one classic smart phone in the market. But that’s finally changing this week: Blackberry has announced that it will no longer make the BlackBerry Classic.

View Article
Go to page