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Exchange Online Provides Archive Folders to Users. Good or Bad Idea?

Last Update: Jul 07, 2023

Exchange Online now boasts an “archive folder”, helpfully furnished to allow users to keep items they need to retain. Unless they have an archive mailbox. Or use Outlook auto-archive. It’s just a tad confusing.

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Everything You Need to Know About Azure Infrastructure — March 2018 Edition

Month 3 of 2018 brought us some interesting news in Azure IaaS. Some things that have been in the oven for a while are starting to rise and there’s lots more evidence of the new and open Microsoft.

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More about Public Key Infrastructure (PKI)

This article is a non-direct continuation of the “What is a Public Key Infrastructure (PKI)?” found on the Petri IT Knowledgebase. Public-Key Cryptography and One-Way Functions As written in previous articles, Public-Key cryptography (as opposed to symmetric key cryptography) relies on one-way functions, which are functions that are easy to calculate but hard to invert…

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What Is the Azure App Service?

Aidan Finn discusses the Azure App Service, the heart of Microsoft’s platform-as-a-service.

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Microsoft Surface Turns a Corner

Aidan Finn shares his thoughts on how Microsoft turned its Surface business from a billion dollar lost into a multi-billion dollar business.

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Windows as a Service: The Highs and Lows of Rapid Release

Microsoft’s Windows as a Service model for Windows 10 brings with it many benefits but it is also creating a few issues as well for IT Pros.

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Cloud Computing

Intro to Virtualization: Hardware, Software, Memory, Storage, Data and Network Virtualization Defined

Last Update: Jun 27, 2022

What exactly is virtualization and what are the benefits? This guide is designed specifically for IT professionals who are new to virtualization, and takes a detailed look at the different types of virtualization as well as the benefits of each.

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Does Your Office 365 Tenant Need Backups?

Do you need to backup Office 365 data? The question isn’t simple because technology changes all the time and it’s hard to backup some applications like Teams and Planner because APIs don’t exist. The important thing is for companies to review what data they use, the features available to them, and then figure out if any gaps exist.

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Is PRISM Damaging Cloud Computing?

In June 2013, the world found out about PRISM. Learn more about this Internet surveillance program and how it could affect the future of cloud computing.

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Windows NT 4.0 SP6a Patches

Note: Microsoft has announced that it will stop supporting Windows 98 and Windows NT 4.0 Workstation as of June 30, 2003. What was the latest SP for Windows NT 4.0? Windows NT 4.0 Service Pack 6a, the most recent service pack for Windows NT, was released in November of 1999. Microsoft originally planned to release…

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