Microsoft's Windows Azure disaster recovery service is generally available for use in production environments, according to an announcement made this week.
Microsoft will continue to provide antimalware support for Windows XP even after the OS hits its April product lifecycle end.
Applies to the "Understanding operating system configurations" objective of Exam 98-349.
In the second part of this three-part series, the Prof. PowerShell breaks down how brackets should and shouldn't be used.
- By Jeffery Hicks
- 01/13/2014
Microsoft Security Essentials, the company's free antimalware software, will no longer be supported for Windows XP once official support ends on April 8.
A configuration "workaround" to Microsoft's latest deployment toolkit that could help some organizations make the move from Windows XP to Windows 8.1 was released on Thursday.
Applies to the "Maintain Windows clients and devices" objective of Exam 70-689.
- By Jeffery Hicks
- 01/07/2014
Microsoft said it will be working through the holiday period to fix a Windows XP resource-hog problem that has affected some users for years.
Microsoft late last week updated the preview version of Power BI for Office 365.
Prof. PowerShell is back again to share another batch of his favorite tweaks in the latest version of Powershell.
- By Jeffery Hicks
- 12/17/2013
Applies to the "Maintain resource access" objective of Exam 70-689.
Microsoft on Thursday released the latest iOS- and Android-based versions of its Office 365 Admin apps for monitoring the status of Office 365 services.
Microsoft on Tuesday released five "critical" and six "important" bulletin items addressing 24 different flaws found in Microsoft's line of software and services.
Applies to the "Design an installation and application strategy" objective of Exam 70-689.
Jeffrey Hicks runs down a few of his top reasons why you should be running the latest version of PowerShell.
- By Jeffery Hicks
- 12/10/2013
Updates to Exchange 2013 and Exchange 2010 Service Pack 3 were released by Microsoft at the end of November.
Microsoft outlined in a blog post that the company will be strengthening and expanding its encryption services, both in transit and at its datacenters, in the coming year.
Microsoft this week has released a "preview" of two group management capabilities in Windows Azure Active Directory (WAAD).
Applies to the "Configure backup and recovery options" objective of Exam 70-689.