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MC650424 – The Mail and Calendar apps for Windows are being replaced with the new Outlook for Windows. At the end of 2024 Microsoft will be ending support for the Mail and Calendar apps for Windows. The new Outlook for Windows helps people be more productive and in control of their inbox. Microsoft is excited…

Aidan Finn discusses Microsoft’s recent announcements about the end of infrastructure roles for Nano Server and the twice-yearly updates to Windows Server.

Exchange 2019 has been around for six months. It’s a good time to consider if on-premises organizations should upgrade or stick with the version of Exchange they run today. Exchange 2019 is a solid release, even if Microsoft’s engineering efforts are largely focused on the cloud these days. Of course, moving to Exchange Online is an option too, but perhaps not for the dedicated on-premises deployments.

Microsoft, Apple, and Google have committed to expanding passwordless sign-in support across all major device platforms. The three biggest tech companies have teamed up to roll out the FIDO passkey technology to iOS, Android, Edge, Chrome, macOS, and Windows in 2023. These platforms already support passwordless sign-in standards, but Microsoft, Apple, and Google are now…

Anti-virus software is a great way to protect your machines against attack. Unfortunately they can sometimes interfere with software that is running on your machine; anti-virus exclusions fix this. In this article we discuss anti virus exclusion guidelines for Microsoft products.

Microsoft has recently announced the release of SharePoint Workflow Manager. The new workflow engine powers the SharePoint 2013 Workflow platform and replaces the Service Bus and Microsoft Workflow Manager for Windows Server. SharePoint Server uses Microsoft Workflow Manager and Service Bus to facilitate business processes in on-premises environments. These components could be particularly useful to…

As much as each software vendor would like it to be so, most IT environments are not homogenous. Most shops do not run Linux or Windows or Solaris exclusively. So what happens when a user on one type of system needs to interact with another type of system? To be more specific what should a…

How can I add additional user account information option to the Active Directory Users and Computers context menu? As seen in the Add Unlock User Option to Active Directory Users and Computers article, many of the daily tasks of a network administrator is to monitor user accounts, logo activities, password changes and account options, such…

This month’s big news is the release of Windows 10 version 20H2. It’s a minor update but it comes with some worthwhile improvements. Also in October, Microsoft released a new version of its Edge browser to the Stable Channel and Microsoft provides a workaround for the ‘Reset this PC’ bug in Windows 10 version 2004.

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