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SharePoint Site Collection Ownership Issues: Assigning Permissions to a Web Application

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Often farm administrators are listed as SharePoint site collection owners in many new SharePoint implementations. Michael Simmons explains why this isn’t the best idea to put into practice.

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Recent Enhancements to Azure Site Recovery

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Read about some of the recent improvements to Azure Site Recovery (ASR), Microsoft’s DR-as-a-Service cloud solution.

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Paul Thurrott’s Short Takes: May 29, 2015

Last Update: Nov 19, 2024

Because I feel like it and I’m tired of explaining myself, this week’s other news includes a July confirmation for Windows 10, and much, much more.

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Episode 21 – May 28th- 10:15pm EDT Guest : Leon Adato, Head Geek at SolarWinds

Servers go down. Systems crash. Lights go out in the datacenter. As a sysadmin, being informed of these outages are key to keeping the datacenter up and running. Join us as we discuss alert and monitoring without all the white noise with Leon Adato @leonadato, Head Geek at SolarWinds. You can be alerted all you want,…

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What is Microsoft Azure Stack?

Last Update: Jun 27, 2025

Aidan Finn explains how Microsoft is bringing Azure to your data center on your terms using Azure Stack.

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Microsoft Azure IaaS Announcements at Build and Ignite 2015

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Aidan Finn provides a summary of Microsoft Azure IaaS announcements at Build and Ignite 2015.

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Microsoft Says It Would Obey Encryption Laws

Last Update: Jul 29, 2025

With important countries like the USA and UK debating whether to require tech firms to enable encryption back doors, Microsoft has finally spoken up.

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SQL Server 2016 Community Technology Preview (CTP2) Now Available for Download

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

The SQL Server 2016 Community Technology Preview (CTP2) is now available to download and provides a first look into Always Encrypted and Stretch Database capabilities.

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PowerShell Problem Solver: Make it Pretty

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

During Microsoft Ignite, I took part in a community panel discussion on PowerShell. Well, not so much a discussion as questions and answers. One of the questions, which I get from time to time, concerned how to change the color of error messages in the PowerShell console. It is actually quite easy, and once you…

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Creating Repeating PowerShell Scheduled Jobs

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Learn how to create PowerShell Scheduled Jobs to repeat itself for a specified amount of time in this quick tutorial by Jeff Hicks.

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Hyper-V’s Biggest Weakness

Last Update: Nov 19, 2024

Aidan Finn explains what he believes to be Hyper-V’s biggest weakness for Microsoft and provides a strategy to improve the service for IT pros.

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20 Years Later: The Internet Tidal Wave

Last Update: Jul 29, 2025

“A new competitor ‘born’ on the Internet is Netscape,” Microsoft CEO Bill Gates awkwardly wrote in his Internet Tidal wave memo to employees on May 26, 1995. The memo went on to rally the troops, as Microsoft defeated Netscape, embraced and extended Internet technologies, and dominated the market for web browsers. And yet today, 20…

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