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The PowerShell Mess in the Microsoft Cloud

PowerShell is a great way of automating common administrative Office 365 operations. That is, if you know what module to use and how to use the cmdlets in that module. Unfortunately things are a bit of a mess with too many modules and inconsistent behavior in areas like error handling. With so many development groups working on Office 365, the PowerShell situation might be inevitable, but it needs cleaning up.

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Paul Thurrott’s Short Takes: Microsoft Earnings Special Edition

Because Microsoft announced its quarterly earnings this week, this edition of Short Takes looks exclusively at the results across all of the software giant’s major business units.

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Cloud Computing

Microsoft Releases Update to Streamline Exchange Online License Assignments

Microsoft has released a new feature that adds support for concurrent license assignments in Exchange Online. The latest release enables organizations to assign more than one Exchange Online license to each Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) user. Previously, the Microsoft 365 admin center and Azure AD PowerShell restricted IT admins from allocating concurrent Exchange Online…

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Aidan’s IT Pro Highlights of 2016

Aidan shares his tech highlights from 2016.

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Paul Thurrott’s Short Takes: Microsoft Earnings Special Edition

Because Microsoft announced its most recent quarterly earnings this week, this edition of Short Takes is going to obsess over the results, with a deeper dive into key parts of the business.

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Cloud Computing

Microsoft’s Partner Program to Get a Major Cloud Overhaul in October

Microsoft announced a major revamp of its partner program last week. The Redmond giant will rebrand the existing Microsoft Partner Network (MPN) to Microsoft Cloud Partner Program (MCPP) on October 3. This will be the first biggest overhaul since Microsoft launched its partner program over a decade ago, and the impact could be significant for…

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Cloud Computing

What Are the Best Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) Solutions on the Market?

Hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) is a software-defined infrastructure that virtualizes and packages all the components of a conventional data center including network, storage, and computing resources. Hyperconverged infrastructure platforms allow businesses to virtualize servers, storage, and underlying networks and implement a software-driven control of their IT environment. In this article, we’ll look at the top 5…

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Is it safe to store sensitive information in the cloud?

The seamlessly ending possibilities of cloud computing have changed the way we use the Internet. But with new possibilities come new problems, and security concerns have rightly been highlighted as a potential deal breaker when it comes to deploying cloud services.

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Network Security

Microsoft Entra Permissions Management Gets New Capabilities and APIs

Microsoft has announced several new features for its Entra Permissions Management service. The cloud infrastructure entitlement management (CIEM) tool enables organizations to effectively monitor and control permissions for various identities and resources across different cloud services. Microsoft Entra Permissions Management is getting a new ServiceNow integration that will let organizations manage their multi-cloud permissions. It…

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Cloud Conversations

Cloud Conversations – Jessica White on Allyship, Mentoring, & Organizing a Conference

Cloud Conversations is a weekly podcast that we’ll be featuring here on Petri. It’s about everything connected to cloud computing, including technologies like Azure, Microsoft 365, Power Platform, Microsoft Endpoint Manager (MEM), Microsoft Defender, Windows, Intune, and much more! Cloud Conversations – Jessica White on Allyship, Mentoring, & Organizing a Conference Jessica White is a technical architect, speaker, and a…

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