Planned Maintenance For Azure Virtual Machines
by Aidan Finn
Aidan Finn examines Microsoft's new feature that allows you to control the forced outages that occur to virtual machines when patches are delivered to Azure’s compute hosts.
Patching
The Azure IaaS Announcements from Ignite 2017
by Aidan Finn
Aidan Finn shares a summary of the improvements to the Azure virtual machine and related services and features announced at the Microsoft Ignite 2017 conference.
6 Steps to Prevent WannaCrypt and Other Ransomware
by Aidan Finn
Take a look at the steps which, when taken together, should minimize your risks of being successfully attacked by ransomware such as WannaCrypt, CryptoLocker, and a plethora of other variants that are ravaging businesses of all sizes around the world.
After NSA Exploits Leak, Microsoft Finds Itself in an Odd Position
by Brad Sams
Microsoft has quietly patched security vulnerabilities used by the NSA after they were made public over the weekend but who tipped off Microsoft remains unknown.
Patching Hyper-V Clusters
with 3 Comments by Aidan Finn
Patches are your friend. Learn to patch Hyper-V in a failover cluster with Windows Server 2012 Cluster Aware Updating and System Center 2012 SP1 VMM.
Windows Server Update Services 2012: Reporting and PowerShell
with 3 Comments by Russell Smith
Show that WSUS who's who! Discover how to install Windows Server Update Services 2012 (WSUS) reporting and how to manage it with PowerShell.