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What Is Windows Admin Center? A Quick Overview

Windows Admin Center (WAC) is the modern evolution of “in-box” management tools, like MMC (Microsoft Management Console) and Server Manager for Windows Server management. WAC provides wizards to guide users through its deployment and deploying Windows Servers and other cluster solutions. Learn more about what Windows Admin Center features and capabilities might be useful to…

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M365 Changelog: (Updated) Microsoft Edge for Business: Customize organizational branding using the Microsoft Edge management service

MC720776 – Updated March 20, 2024: Microsoft has updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience. Starting late March 2024, admins can customize their organization’s branding assets onto Edge for Business through the Microsoft Edge management service. This branding can help users signed in with an Entra ID (formerly known as Azure Active…

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Datacenter networking servers

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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M365 Changelog: Microsoft Clipchamp desktop app: Work account support

Last Update: Mar 19, 2024

MC744123 – The Microsoft Clipchamp desktop app from app version 3.x for Windows 10 and Windows 11 is introducing support for logins with Azure Active Directory/Entra ID accounts. This means that your users can access Clipchamp’s work version through the desktop app in addition to accessing Clipchamp in Microsoft Edge or Chrome. Until this rollout,…

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Network Security

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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How to Enable Microsoft Copilot Effectively: A Quick Guide

The buzz around Microsoft Copilot has been well-documented. Since its inception, this intelligent AI assistant tool has offered users access to a wealth of information and resources to help them work more efficiently and effectively. It’s certainly part and parcel of Microsoft’s continued excellence in responsible AI integration across its estate. In this article, I’ll outline…

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M365 Changelog: (Updated) Microsoft Viva Admin center: New capabilities for added flexibility and to manage adoption

MC715691 – Updated March 15, 2024: Microsoft has updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience. Microsoft has added new capabilities to the Microsoft Viva Insights Admin center that will make it easier to assign leaders access, measure adoption, and stay informed of key updates. When this will happen: Preview: Microsoft will begin…

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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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M365 Changelog: (Updated) Microsoft Power Automate – Information about new Power Platform URLs used by Power Automate

MC684204 – Updated February 28, 2024: Microsoft has updated the date below. Thank you for your patience. Starting April 15, 2024, Microsoft Power Automate will start to rely on a new cloud service dependency called Power Platform API. The Power Automate experiences will leverage this new API internally, as will more Power Platform experiences over time….

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Network Security

What is Azure Active Directory Enterprise State Roaming?

Last Update: Jul 27, 2022

Russell Smith walks us through Microsoft Azure’s new Enterprise State Roaming (ESR) feature, which was made available as a preview in early February for customers with an Azure Active Directory Premium subscription.

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