cloud computing

Microsoft has launched a public preview of Arc-enabled Azure Stack HCI. The Redmond giant says that the new integration enables customers to manage Linux or Windows virtual machines (VMs) on Azure Stack HCI via Azure Arc. For those unfamiliar, Azure Arc is a multi-cloud management service that enables customers to use Azure services with Azure…

Microsoft has released a hotfix today to address data logging issues in Azure Active Directory and several other cloud services. The company initially said that the bug impacted Azure AD customers in the US and Europe, but Microsoft later indicated in a status update that it was affecting users globally. According to the update on…

Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) allows EC2 instances, AWS Lambda functions and containers to share access to a fully-managed, high performance and highly available file system. Amazon EFS delivers low-latency performance for a wide variety of workloads and can scale to thousands of concurrent clients or connections. EFS can scale automatically and you only pay for…

Microsoft adds a subset of existing Azure server security and auditing features to Azure Arc for organizations that need to manage workloads on different platforms and locations.

This week in IT, Windows Autopatch could kill off Patch Tuesday for some enterprises, but not all might be what it seems. Remote Help is now generally available, and yes, it’s expensive. Windows 10 November 2021 is ready for broad deployment. Microsoft is planning to disable SMB v1 in an upcoming Windows 11 release. Exchange…

Learn more about Microsoft’s plans to introduce a new WAN solution to connect on-premise clouds, as well as the company’s new partnerships with BT and Verizon.

This week in IT, April Patch Tuesday updates fix 119 vulnerabilities, Windows 10 Search Highlights hits general availability, Atlassian Jira/Confluence outage set to last for another two weeks, Microsoft to bring privileged access management to Windows via Endpoint Manager, and critics say Windows cloud licensing is anticompetitive. About This Week in IT This week in…

Several new Azure Files features went into public preview earlier this year to help organizations move file shares to the cloud with confidence.

Microsoft releases a preview of Storage Migration Service in the latest Insider version of Windows Server 2019. In this Ask the Admin, I’ll provide an overview of what it is and how it works.

Puppet Bolt is an agentless and masterless remote task runner that you can use with your existing PowerShell, Python, and Bash scripts.