Ten Reasons you’ll love Windows Server 2016 #4: Remote Desktop Services
Improved graphics, performance and cloud capabilitiesThis is post #4 in the “Ten Reasons You’ll Love Windows Server 2016” video series by Matt McSpirit, Technical Evangelist at Microsoft.In today’s...
View ArticleGreat Post on the “Intune Blog” about Access Control
If you haven’t already read it, check out this new post from the Intune team entitled, “The evolution of access control: from VPN to identity-based anywhere access.”It’s written by one of the PM’s on...
View ArticleTen reasons you’ll love Windows Server 2016 #5: Software defined storage
This is the fifth post in the “Ten Reasons You’ll Love Windows Server 2016” videos by Matt McSpirit, Technical Evangelist at Microsoft.In this episode Matt interviews Elden Christensen, a Principal...
View ArticleAre your DCs too busy to be monitored?: AD Data Collector Set solutions for...
Hi all, Herbert Mauerer here. In this post we’re back to talk about the built-in AD Diagnostics Data collector set available for Active Directory Performance (ADPERF) issues and how to ensure a useful...
View ArticleVisuality Systems and Microsoft expand SMB collaboration to storage systems
Last week, Microsoft and Visuality Systems announced an expanded collaboration on SMB. Visuality is well known for their work supporting the SMB protocol in embedded devices. If you own a printer or...
View ArticleTen reasons you’ll love Windows Server 2016 #6: Software-defined Compute
This is the sixth post in the “Ten Reasons You’ll Love Windows Server 2016” video series by Matt McSpirit, Technical Evangelist at Microsoft.Today, Matt talks to Mathew John, Principal Group Program...
View ArticleMarch updates to Azure RemoteApp
Within the month of March 2016, we released the following new features and capabilities for Azure RemoteApp:Windows client was updated to address high local processer usage and enhanced graphics...
View ArticleTen reasons you’ll love Windows Server 2016 #7: Software-defined networking
This is the 7th post in the “Ten Reasons You’ll Love Windows Server 2016” video series by Matt McSpirit, Technical Evangelist at Microsoft.In this episode Matt interviews Ravi Rao, Principal PM Manager...
View ArticleMicrosoft introduces free resources to help IT pros get started and build...
by Mike Neil, Corporate Vice President, Cloud + EnterpriseOver the last 20 years there have been many technology transitions led by IT professionals. With each technology transition, the role of IT...
View ArticleAWS DSC Toolkit
We have just released a brand new module called the AWS DSC Toolkit! This module allows you to register AWS EC2 instances as DSC Nodes in Azure Automation. You can then control your EC2 instances in...
View ArticleNew Resources for IT Pros to Build Cloud Expertise
Yesterday on the Server & Cloud Blog there was a great announcement (see video below) that emphasized something I want to reiterate:Over the last 20 years, IT has led many of technologies big...
View ArticleView File Content Feature is Available on the Gallery
We are excited to let you know that you can now view files and their contents directly from the PowerShellGallery!We have received a lot of feedback that you want to see the file contents in the items...
View ArticleRemote Desktop Preview now supports pinning and Azure RemoteApp
A new update (version 857 for the Remote Desktop Preview client for Windows 10 is making its way through the Store and will be available shortly. This is an exciting release for two reasons:This...
View ArticleCROSS POST: Fix: Loading DNS zones takes a long time on a Windows Server 2008...
Here’s another blog by Ajay Sarkaria that we felt needed to also be on the Networking site due to the nature and the popularity of the article. So we are going to cross post it here. Fix: Loading DNS...
View ArticleRegister now for the Sleepless in Cyberspace webinar
Are you afraid moving to the cloud means losing control? Do you believe your data is safer on-premises than in the cloud? If so, you may be experiencing a “trust gap.” The good news: we can help you...
View ArticleTen reasons you’ll love Windows Server 2016 #8: Security
This post, authored by Matt McSpirit, Technical Evangelist at Microsoft, is #8 in the “Ten reasons you’ll love Windows Server 2016” series.In this episode Matt interviews Nir Ben-Zvi, a principal...
View ArticleThe Archive module is now open-source
Over the past year, the PowerShell Team has released and developed a ton of open-source code. Many of our open-source projects started and have grown out in the open, like our DSC resources, PowerShell...
View ArticleTen reasons you’ll love Windows Server 2016 #9: Containers
This post was authored by Matt McSpirit, Technical Evangelist at Microsoft. It is the ninth post in the “Ten reasons you’ll love Windows Server 2016” series.Today I got to talk with Taylor Brown,...
View ArticleEndpoint Zone Episode 13: Microsoft Earnings, Skype for Business with MAM,...
In this episode we talk about the parts of the Microsoft Q3 earnings announcement that matter to the IT community — it’s a look at where the company is growing and what this means for the decisions...
View ArticlePowerShell for Docker
For the last couple of months I have been conflicted when working with containers. Do I use PowerShell – or do I use Docker? Both have their advantages. Well – thankfully this dilemma will soon be a...
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