Overview

If you are in the market for a new notebook or PC, there are two choices consumers have in Windows 10 SKU: Home and Pro. You might be purchasing a device for your own business or buying one to use with your company's "Bring Your Own Device" (BYOD) program. In the case of the latter,… Read More

Microsoft’s Build conference was on last week and it gave us lots of AI, Machine Learning, and every other type of “machines doe it better” cloud tech announcements. But there were also a few infrastructure announcements during the month. I’ve become the “Azure networking” person at my job, so it’s no surprise (to me) that… Read More

On this edition of the Enterprise Dish, we dive into the controversial topic of backing up Office 365 data, taking a look at the Surface Headphones 2+, and using Teams for your personal life.

Trends come and go but protecting your data and having the ability to easily restore items efficiently is a part of your business that can mean the difference between disaster and mild-hiccup. As we navigate the pandemic and employees bounce between home and work, data is more ‘in-flight’ than ever before. If you are looking… Read More

I've been drowning in project deadlines for the last month and I've not had a chance to keep up with the improvements in Microsoft Azure IaaS. So this month's article is as much for me as it is for you! New General Purpose VMs The most common virtual machine family that I use in Microsoft… Read More

For all you IT Pros continuing to support an on-premises Exchange Server infrastructure (in any configuration), Microsoft has a vital message for you: It is extremely important to keep Exchange up to date. Due to the number of customers that were unprepared to install last month's (Mar '21) Emergency security patches, many had to scramble… Read More

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.

On this edition of the Enterprise Dish, we talk about Microsoft changelogs, ShiftHappens, new Teams hardware, and a lot more.

There’s no doubt that there’s been a huge focus on disaster recovery (DR) beginning in 2020 and carrying over into 2021. The high-profile and wide-ranging SolarWinds breach along with the rise in ransomware and malware attacks has caused a lot of organizations to reevaluate their DR strategies. In the past, many businesses just viewed DR… Read More

This week, Microsoft announced the updated Surface Laptop 4 and if you want a closer look at the specs, check out the announcement post here. Having now used the device almost exclusively for the past 36 hours, these are my first impressions of the updated hardware. And it’s important to point out that not much… Read More

Petri's GET-IT Backup and  Recovery 1-Day Virtual Conference is a day dedicated to a topic that most of us hope we never have to face - disaster recovery. But more than disaster recovery, this one-day event will also help you better understand best practices for backing up data, securing active directory, and understanding the tools… Read More

Microsoft ran another virtual edition of the Ignite conference in March. As usual there were a large number of Azure infrastructure announcements. Availability Zones Expansion Microsoft has committed to introducing availability zones to all Azure regions by the end of 2021. An Azure region (supposedly) is made up of one or more physical data centers… Read More

When people talk about the security of data in Microsoft 365, invariably phrase you’ll hear – and I don’t know who coined it – “the cloud is just someone else’s computer”. When someone says it to me, I literally have to stop myself from saying “…but actually” before we both explode into memes. Microsoft 365… Read More

Petri's GET-IT Practitioners Guide to Ignite is designed to help keep you updated on the key announcements from Microsoft's second virtual installment of their largest IT Pro conference.

Because Microsoft is having its second Ignite virtual event in five months, this edition of Short Takes looks exclusively at the news the software giant announced at this event. Or, at least some of it.