Azure Service Fabric Mesh, a "serverless" means of hosting applications, is now available as a public preview, Microsoft announced this week.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 18, 2018
In preview since March, Windows Server's Remote Desktop Web client became generally available on Monday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 17, 2018
Organizations using SQL Server 2008/R2 and Windows Server 2008/R2 products can add three years of patch support via Microsoft's new Extended Security Updates plans, the company announced Thursday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 13, 2018
Microsoft plans to end distribution of its monthly Windows 10 "delta updates" starting Feb. 12, 2019, the company announced this week.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 13, 2018
Microsoft this week dubbed Windows 10 version 1803 (also known as the April 2018 Update and previously code-named "Redstone 4") as being in the semiannual channel (SAC) release stage, although what that means exactly is a matter of some conjecture.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 12, 2018
In an increasingly globalized public cloud market, the runaway leaders remain Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure -- except in the Asia Pacific (APAC) region, where newcomer Alibaba continues to disrupt.
- By David Ramel
- July 11, 2018
Windows Server 2019 will see significant improvements related to Storage Spaces Direct, according to a recent Microsoft announcement.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 03, 2018
Microsoft last week released test build 17704 of Windows 10 "Redstone 5," but missing from the feature lineup was one of the company's most innovative contributions to productivity.
- By Scott Bekker
- July 02, 2018
After a one-year preview period, Azure IoT Edge is now available via the GitHub open source code repository, marking another milestone in Microsoft's commitment to the open source movement.
- By David Ramel
- June 28, 2018
On Tuesday, Microsoft's online Windows Server Summit event indicated what's to come with Windows Server 2019.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 27, 2018
A new feature preview represents the next step in Microsoft's plan to make multifactor authentication (MFA) the default verification option for its Azure Active Directory (AD) identity management service.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 25, 2018
Microsoft's Exchange team recently announced several updates coming to the e-mail server, including support for Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 3 (SP3) on Windows Server 2016.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 22, 2018
Organizations can now use a newly released Microsoft service called "Traffic Analytics" to monitor network activity within their Azure environments.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 22, 2018
Microsoft this week released a new preview build of Windows Server 2019 alongside previews of related tooling, including a new predictive analytics service called System Insights.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 20, 2018
Microsoft is readying a new Office 365 capability that will let organizations running hybrid Microsoft Exchange scenarios to transfer policies between Exchange Server and Exchange Online.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 19, 2018