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Everything You Need to Know About Windows – November 2018

Windows 10 version 1809 is rereleased but users still face problems, Microsoft issues security advisory for devices with self-encrypting SSDs, Windows 10 gets support for 64-bit ARM apps, and researcher finds Active Directory forest trust security bug.

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How to Recession-Proof your IT Career

Last Update: Sep 23, 2022

In this article, I will share my recommendations on how to build a recession-proof career and protect it against the effects of an economic downturn. In summary: Assess your current position. Update your skills. Get certified. Winter is coming – recession proof your career now! You don’t need to be a Stark to understand what…

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Infrastructure-as-Code Part 3: Deploy Active Directory and Certificate Services in Azure

In the final part of this series, Russell Smith shows you how to use the code I created in the previous two installments to provision the resources in Azure.

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Microsoft Now Lets IT Admins Assign Sponsors to Entra ID Guest Accounts

Key Takeaways: Microsoft has released a new update that enables IT admins to designate sponsors for Entra ID guest accounts. The feature launched in public preview in July, allowing organizations to appoint individuals or groups as sponsors for their guest accounts (via Office 365 for IT Pros). A sponsor is a “responsible individual” who tracks…

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This Week in IT: New Loop Features in Teams, Security Copilot Update, Resource Guard for Azure Backup, and much more…

This Week in IT, unlock seamless collaboration in Teams with the new Loop components update, allowing real-time edits, sharing, and integration across Microsoft 365! Plus, Microsoft introduces extra security to protect Azure Backup vaults from ransomware, Windows 365 Cloud PCs get an important new security feature, and Security Copilot gets an update and wider availability….

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TechEd 2014 Interview: Mark Russinovich on Microsoft Azure

Read our interview with Microsoft Technical Fellow Mark Russinovich to get the latest on Microsoft Azure and what new CEO Satya Nadella brings to the company.

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How Azure AD and a Load Balancer Can Simplify App Delivery

Last Update: Apr 16, 2024

This post was sponsored by Kemp Microsoft’s offering in the single sign-on space for several years has been Azure Active Directory, which serves as the underlying directory service for Microsoft 365. This service is also widely used as the SSO and provisioning service compatible with most third-party SaaS applications such as ServiceNow, Salesforce, Atlassian, and many more.   In a surprising turnaround from…

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The Problem with Guest Accounts (Going Outside Your Tenant)

Good Visibility Over Guest Activity for Host Office 365 Tenants From a host tenant perspective, Microsoft has done a great job with Azure B2B Collaboration, the foundation for guest user access for applications like Teams and Planner. External people can be invited to join groups and teams or share documents and folders (including now through…

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Getting Started with Azure Arc-Servers

Microsoft announced Azure Arc at Ignite 2019 providing a cross-platform hybrid management system to manage all servers anywhere. In this article, you’ll learn how to onboard your on-premises servers to Azure Arc Servers.

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M365 Changelog: Power BI Administrator role will be renamed to Fabric Administrator

Last Update: Jun 22, 2023

MC600715 – On May 23, 2023, Microsoft unveiled Microsoft Fabric, which provides a Data Factory-powered data integration experience, Synapse-powered data engineering, data warehouse, data science, and real-time analytics experiences and business intelligence (BI) with Power BI—all hosted on a lake-centric SaaS solution. Microsoft centralized the tenant and capacity level administration for all these experiences in…

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