Windows Virtual Desktop, Microsoft's new virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) service hosted from Azure datacenters, was released as a public preview this week.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 22, 2019
Microsoft's Azure Backup for SQL Server solution, which is used to backup SQL Server when the relational database management system is housed on Azure datacenter virtual machines, became generally available this week.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 19, 2019
Enhancements coming to SharePoint Online users this month will add greater control over how News articles appear in SharePoint sites.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 15, 2019
With Windows 7 Service Pack 1 (SP1) falling out of support in less than a year, users of that operating system will begin seeing regular notices from Microsoft warning of the impending deadline starting in April.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 14, 2019
A recent Microsoft demo presentation describes how to create a new Teams Site "modern" page using an existing "classic" SharePoint page.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 13, 2019
Microsoft described a new mechanism this week called "Guardian Modules" that enables the use of microcontroller units to secure connections for older Internet of Things (IoT) devices.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 06, 2019
Azure DevOps Server 2019, Microsoft's rebranded successor to Team Foundation Server 2018, became generally available on Tuesday after being at the Release Candidate 2 test stage since January.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 05, 2019
Starting April 1, organizations can purchase Microsoft's Windows 7 Extended Security Updates plan to extend the life of their Windows 7 Service Pack 1 (SP1) implementations.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 04, 2019
At the Embedded World conference in Nuremberg this week, Microsoft announced that it was developing another Internet of Things (IoT) solution called Windows Server IoT 2019.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 28, 2019
SharePoint Online users will soon be able to take advantage of new page enhancements, giving them greater control over a page's title and description.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 27, 2019
Microsoft on Friday announced the "general availability" of Windows Defender ATP support for Windows 7 and Windows 8.1.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 22, 2019
A new Windows 10 Office app is set to arrive for business and consumer users in the next few weeks, according to a Microsoft announcement on Wednesday, effectively "replacing" the current MyOffice app that comes preinstalled on Windows 10 systems.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 21, 2019
The next Windows 10 feature update release, due this spring, will mark a few changes to Microsoft's Windows servicing lingo and management behavior.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 15, 2019
Windows 10 versions 1803 and 1709 now have support, with some limitations, for Microsoft's MSIX packaging format.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 12, 2019
Users of Microsoft 365-licensed products will soon receive a number of security and compliance improvements, Microsoft announced recently.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 04, 2019