Windows now leverages the cloud to sync across devices allowing you to be more productive. If you choose to enable syncing, you can access your copied content from any Windows device you’re logged into and add or modify it at a moment’s notice. You can review what you copy in the clipboard history viewer, hold multiple pieces of text and images there, and share them with any other Windows devices you’re logged into.
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Since the Microsoft Ignite conference in early November, I have been reviewing the Surface Go device to see how useful it is to someone like me. For this review unit, I opted for the matching surface keyboard and pen. My daily driver laptop is a Lenovo ThinkPad T460 which is rock solid and where I run my work applications. The purpose of using the Surface Go was not for it to be a replacement for my work computer, but rather an in-between device. Something that can handle most of my personal computing needs. There are a few different models available, but I chose a model with an Intel Pentium 4415Y CPU, 128 GB of storage, and 8 GB of RAM. This device comes with Windows 10 Home in S-Mode. For this testing period, I kept Windows in this mode so that I was testing an out-of-the-box experience.
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BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) is the allowance of employee-owned equipment onto company systems. Typically, this involves employees using consumer computing devices (such as iPads or Surface tablets) to get work done, either in the office, at home, or on the road. Many of these devices are not designed to “get work done,” but instead to consume content (e.g., checking email, reading news, social media, etc.). These devices are not managed and may lack even the most basic security features enabled. Here is the problem: If your BYOD strategy is not planned correctly, this can spell disaster for any corporate network. How is your company protecting its data on devices out of its control? What happens when an employee leaves the company or a device is accidentally left behind at a coffee shop?
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Traditionally Windows VMs (virtual machines) in Azure would include a Windows Server Datacenter license. The cost of this license was built into the hourly/monthly fee for that VM. This made systems easy to roll out using the GUI wizards and made licensing a cinch. If you are moving existing virtual machine workloads to the cloud, …
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PowerShell in Action – June 2, 2017 – Microsoft Burlington Join us for a day of PowerShell. Just as it is a tool for you to do amazing things, we are going to use it as a tool to explore amazing technologies. If you are looking to learn PowerShell, we have an entire track dedicated …
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One of the more controversial features of Windows 10 is Wi-Fi Sense. Though it has been on Windows Phone for some time, this is a new feature of Windows 10. Wi-Fi Sense allows you to share access to a wireless network with your friends on social media sites like Facebook. Wi-Fi Sense also allows you …
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I am extremely excited to announce this week I got the word that I have been awarded this year’s Microsoft Most Valuable Professional award for Microsoft Azure. I am very thankful to Microsoft and to everyone who helped make this possible. I feel so very lucky to be amongst the very few selected for this …
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Imagine if you could set up single sign-on for your online services with just the check of a box, and allow all of your users to authenticate to services such as Office 365 automatically. Imagine you could do this without the complexity of ADFS and the many hours of planning and implementation that go along …
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In my previous post titled Backing Up Azure ARM VMs with new Azure Recovery Services, I discussed a new feature set which was in Preview (A.K.A. beta). Before the Preview of Azure Recovery Service, we could backup “Classic” Azure VMs (virtual machines) by using Azure Backup, but not VMs created with the newer Azure Resource …
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Today, in an announcement by Microsoft’s Remote Desktop Team, Azure RemoteApp is being retired. Microsoft Azure RemoteApp is an application virtualization platform in the cloud. Using Remote Desktop technology, applications can be presented to users without the need of installing anything on the user’s computer. In addition to ease of management, it allows users to …
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With classic VMs (virtual machines) hosted in Azure’s IaaS, backup can easily be done with Azure Backup. With the new generation of Azure VMs using ARM (Azure Resource Manager), there was a problem. Azure Backup could only see classic VMs and not the new generation. Well, this was a problem until this week when Microsoft …
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Microsoft Azure gateway objects give the ability to configure site-to-site or device-to-site VPN (virtual private network) connections. With a site-to-site VPN, your physical network will be connected to your Azure hosted virtual network. This is an easy way to create a hybrid cloud environment, where some of your servers are on your local network, and …
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Typically WordPress uses MySQL as the database back-end. The guys over at Project Nami found a way to easily utilize Azure SQL instead. This video will walk you through the deployment process. The wizard creates the Azure SQL database, installs the WordPress website, and configures the firewall security rules for you. Take a look and …
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Microsoft has introduced the new Azure Preview Portal to create and manage your Microsoft Azure environment. This new portal is not only easier to use, but provides more detailed information and lots of new functionality. While there are still a few items which cannot yet be managed using the new portal (such as Azure Backup), most …
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