Microsoft changed the names of their Office 365 small and medium business (SMB) SKUs on April 21, 2020. No changes are being made to pricing or features, it is just the names. There are also no price, feature, or business model changes…
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Are you like many businesses who have adopted the Cloud? Have you transitioned your Microsoft Office deployment to Office 365 ProPlus? Transitioning to a Cloud model for specific things often comes with a change in how we do things as…
Windows Server Anti-Malware is installed and enabled by default in Windows Server 2016 Technical Preview, but the user interface for Windows Server Anti-Malware is not installed. However, Windows Server Anti-Malware will update anti-malware definitions and protect the computer without the…
In all data centers today, virtualization is being utilized heavily. Virtual machines make it easier to deploy, manage, service and automate the infrastructure. There are many benefits but there are also security risks that we need to consider and understand….
Let’s face it. In today’s commodity driven private cloud environments we are seeing more and more transient failures as opposed to true hardware failures. Whether that be storage connectivity, switch reset, spanning tree events, packet loss, or latency. They wreak…
Active Directory Federation Services is another bullet on the long list of enhancements coming soon with Windows Server 2016. Active Directory Federation Services, generally referred to as AD FS, has quickly gained popularity as the go-to method for federating authentication…
In preparation for the upcoming release of Windows Server 2016, I have been reviewing many of the new features that will be coming. One great new feature I came across is the ability to set group membership expiration. With this…
With the release of Windows Server 2016 many new features will be available, none more exciting than ‘Nested Virtualization.’ 1. What is Nested Virtualization? Hyper-V Nested Virtualization is essentially running Hyper-V inside of a Hyper-V VM. Think of it as a…
There are two new improvements that Microsoft has added in Windows Server 2016 to help with productivity and up time. The first is the ability to add network adapters to (or remove from) running virtual machines. This new feature is…
One of the new features of Windows Server 2016 that will be helpful to system administrators is PowerShell Direct. PowerShell Direct allows you to run PowerShell commands directly on a virtual machine from a Windows10/Windows Server 2016 host server. You…
