Microsoft is building new and improved user controls into the next major Windows 10 feature update, which is set to arrive in late May.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 04, 2019
Several Microsoft management, security and compliance solutions hit their latest release milestones this week.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 29, 2019
Microsoft this week signaled to organizations that they should now be running Windows 10 version 1809.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 28, 2019
Microsoft this week announced the general availability of a new "live events" video broadcasting feature for Office 365 users.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 27, 2019
Azure Data Box Edge and Azure Data Box Gateway are now generally available, Microsoft announced this week.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 27, 2019
A new addition to Microsoft's Azure Stack product line brings hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) capabilities to its "Azure in a box" solution, the company announced this week.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 26, 2019
Recently announced Microsoft security changes include a rebrand of its Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) to reflect its support for non-Windows platforms.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 25, 2019
Windows Virtual Desktop, Microsoft's new virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) service hosted from Azure datacenters, was released as a public preview this week.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 22, 2019
Microsoft just announced a slew of enhancements coming to its Teams collaboration service, which turned 2 years old this week.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 20, 2019
Microsoft's Azure Backup for SQL Server solution, which is used to backup SQL Server when the relational database management system is housed on Azure datacenter virtual machines, became generally available this week.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 19, 2019
Microsoft plans to switch on its "Insights for MyAnalytics" service sometime this month for most Office 365 users.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 18, 2019
System Center 2019, the latest version of Microsoft's management software suite, is now generally available.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 15, 2019
Enhancements coming to SharePoint Online users this month will add greater control over how News articles appear in SharePoint sites.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 15, 2019
With Windows 7 Service Pack 1 (SP1) falling out of support in less than a year, users of that operating system will begin seeing regular notices from Microsoft warning of the impending deadline starting in April.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 14, 2019
A recent Microsoft demo presentation describes how to create a new Teams Site "modern" page using an existing "classic" SharePoint page.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 13, 2019
Microsoft this week explained its reasons for dropping its System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) product in favor of Azure Monitor.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 12, 2019
A new Office 365 Groups policy that gives organizations better control over how groups get named by end users went into effect on Friday, Microsoft announced.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 11, 2019
System Center 2019, the latest generation of Microsoft's suite of management tools, is poised to hit the "general availability" stage sometime in March.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 08, 2019
A recently published Forrester survey commissioned by Microsoft details the many ways that organizations are failing to comply with the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which took effect in mid-2018.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 07, 2019
Microsoft described a new mechanism this week called "Guardian Modules" that enables the use of microcontroller units to secure connections for older Internet of Things (IoT) devices.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 06, 2019