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How to Use Local Administrator Password Solution (LAPS) with Active Directory and Azure AD

Last Update: Sep 19, 2023

Microsoft’s Local Administrator Password Solution (LAPS) is a legacy Windows tool that IT admins can use to manage account passwords of domain-joined computers. The company has finally updated LAPS this year and plans to bring it natively into Windows in 2023. In this article, I’ll explain how this new native version of LAPS works and…

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Microsoft Announces Azure Functions, Service Fabric, and IoT Starter Kit

At Microsoft’s Build conference, the company announced several new Azure features for microservies and IoT as well as on premises features too.

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Petri Year In Review: Windows 10, Surface Hubs and Popular Deep Dives

As 2016 comes to an end, one of my favorite things to do is to take a look at all the content we published this year to see what resonated well with our audience.

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Nano Server Is Here Today. Gone… Pretty Soon

Aidan Finn discusses Microsoft’s announcement to remove all the infrastructure features, such as scale-out file server and Hyper-V from Nano Server.

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How the Focused Inbox Replaces Clutter Inside Office 365

The Focused Inbox is the keynote feature of the Outlook for iOS and Android mobile clients. All other clients in the Outlook family have used the Clutter feature, which processes mail on the server and removes unimportant items into the Clutter folder. Now Microsoft is dropping Clutter and introducing the Focused Inbox across the entire Outlook family. Rationalization and commonality is good, especially when features that really work are made available to all clients. Here’s how the changeover will occur.

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Patch Tuesday – March 2022

Microsoft released 71 fixes this month, 3 of which are rated Critical and 68 Important. While three are publicly known at the time they were released, none are believed to be in active use by hackers. Windows and Windows Server Microsoft released an update for CVE-2022-21990, which is a Remote Desktop Client (RDP) remote code…

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VMworld 2013: VMware Announces vSphere 5.5 and vCloud Suite 5.5

In the VMworld 2013 keynote, VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger touts IT as a service (ITaaS) and unveils VMware vSphere 5.5 and VMware vCloud Suite 5.5

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Cloud and Hyper-V Predictions for 2018

Aidan Finn delves into the mists of the future to discover what will work and what will not in the world of Hyper-V and the Microsoft cloud in 2018.

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What Are Shared Virtual Hard Disk Sets on Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V?

Aidan Finn explains what Shared Virtual Hard Disk Sets are and why to use them to create shared virtual storage on Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V.

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Paul Thurrott’s Short Takes: October 20

Because I’m about to be gonged again, this edition of Short Takes looks at Microsoft’s market cap, the Fall Creators Update, Microsoft’s iffy security disclosure history, and much more.

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