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How to Use Windows Admin Center

In this article, I will demonstrate how to use Windows Admin Center (WAC) to remotely manage your servers. If you haven’t already, check out my article on how to download and install Windows Admin Center before starting with the tutorial below. How to Use Windows Admin Center When you launch Windows Admin Center, you’ll see…

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Windows 365 Gets New AI Features and Advanced Security Protections

Microsoft is holding its “Advancing the New Era of Work” digital event and the company made some big announcements for IT Pros. The company has unveiled a slew of security features and other improvements for Windows 365 customers to help organizations in advancing this new era of work. Microsoft has announced the general availability of…

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Active Directory Backup vs Replication (And Why You Need to Be Clear on the Difference Now)

Backup and replication are common data protection concepts, but they serve different purposes. Learn more about their differences and how they can benefit your data management strategy, especially how the backup vs replication argument relates to Active Directory (AD) and protecting it. What are backup and replication? Although backup and replication are both methods of…

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March 2024 Patch Tuesday Updates Fix Critical Hyper-V Vulnerabilities

Microsoft released yesterday the March 2024 Patch Tuesday updates for Windows 11 and Windows 10 devices. The latest update includes fixes for two critical vulnerabilities in the Windows Hyper-V virtualization technology. This month’s Patch Tuesday updates address 60 security flaws in Windows and other components. There are 18 remote code execution (RCE) vulnerabilities and several…

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M365 Changelog: SharePoint Premium: Enable/disable Unstructured, Structured, and Prebuilt Document Processing

Last Update: Mar 15, 2024

MC738646 – Admins will now have the option after signing up for pay-as-you-go to turn off each document processing service across their tenant. Admins will now be able to turn on and off each of the following services individually.  This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 383011 When this will happen: Worldwide: Microsoft will…

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New Microsoft Surface Devices and Copilot Updates Unlock Power of AI

This Week in IT, Microsoft announces AI hardware in new Surface devices and updates to Windows 11, Windows 365, and Microsoft 365 to get AI into the hands of more people. I look in more detail at the announcements and how these changes could affect the way we all work. Links and resources Transcript This…

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Datacenter networking servers

How to Build Guest Clusters on Hyper Converged Infrastructure (HCI)

With Hyper Converged Infrastructure (HCI) solutions becoming more common, many customers are now concerned with building clusters on top of those environments. In this article, I’ll explain how to build a guest HCI cluster and why traditional approaches don’t work. In the past, customers built redundancy and resilience based on virtualization and Storage Area Networks…

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Everything You Need To Know About Outlook For Windows (Deployment, Architecture, and Update Playbook)

This Week in IT, Microsoft is promising to support the classic desktop Outlook app until 2029, but not everyone is happy about the new Outlook for Windows. I take a look at the new app and whether you should consider using it or holding off for now. Links and resources Transcript This Week in IT….

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Performance Improvements in Azure Backup

Azure Backup is finally starting to generate interest among SMEs, thanks to the slew of recent improvements that were driven by customer feedback.

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Does Azure Backup Work?

Aidan Finn shares his experience on how he almost lost his production machine data and reviews whether Azure Backup for Virtual Machine works in the event of data loss.

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