Microsoft has been working hard in consolidating their security messaging and in the past 6- 12 months there has been a number changes to their product lines and names which has caused some confusion to customers and partners
In early May 2022, Microsoft announced the launch of their Microsoft Security Experts Services Security Experts is a new managed service category that combines expert-trained technology… Read More »Microsoft Launches Security Experts
A a few weeks ago Microsoft announced a new service called Windows Autopatch for business customers that provides the ability to keep Windows, Office, Teams… Read More »Windows Autopatch
The Microsoft Cloud Acquisitions Team of Technical Specialists have has a new YouTube channel around the Modern Work stack and their first set of webinars… Read More »Microsoft Modern Work Webinars
A lot of changes to the Microsoft Security products line up . Looks like they are finally consolidating all of the products into some sort… Read More »Microsoft Security Name Changes
I think it is fair to say that this is very – VERY – different than any other Windows OS launch than in the past. Microsoft has kept a very tight lip on what the announcements contain, and details (or leaks) have not surfaced yet.
Session with a great introduction, of what industry verticalcization of SaaS apps means and why this matters to all of us was Build differentiated SaaS apps with the Microsoft Cloud with Charles Lamanna.
On February 10, 2021, Microsoft reminded everyone that Microsoft Edge Legacy web browser (UWP-based) present on Windows 10 will end on March 9, 2021 (as expected) but… Read More »RIP Microsoft Edge Legacy
Device as a Service (DaaS), PC as a Service (PCaaS), virtual desktop as a service and cloud-based desktops are not new to the industry. Now a potential service in this realm to be provided by Microsoft as part of their Microsoft 365 service offerings.
In a post on LinkedIn yesterday, Brad posted that after 17+ years at Microsoft he is leaving to to join Qualtrics as President of Product… Read More »Brad Anderson Leaves Microsoft
Many of you know Michael. He has been the Microsoft face of Windows Autopilot for many years and before that he was the Windows as a Service chief communicator. He announced that he leaving Microsoft.
Microsoft Endpoint Manager was announced last week at Microsoft Ignite 2019. Microsoft is working on bringing together System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) and the Microsoft… Read More »Microsoft Endpoint Manager
Microsoft released Active Directory in Windows 2000 server, and it became a standard for enterprise identity management. Active Directory lives on-premises in servers called Domain… Read More »Azure Active Directory
What is Windows Autopilot white glove?
The new Windows Autopilot white glove process, which lets IT technicians, partners, and even OEMs pre-provision devices before they are delivered to the user. Using this process, all device configuration tasks, including apps (machine-targeted or user-targeted), certificates, and policies, can be completed in advance, making it so that when the user gets the device, the device can be ready for productive use within a few minutes.
Is it available yet?
Read More »Windows Autopilot White Glove Details Announced..
Microsoft Office is a widely used product suite which includes tools like Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Project, Publisher, Access, and OneNote.
It has been around since 1988 and has gone through many versions, each of which has a specific support cycle with defined dates. All versions of Microsoft Office products before Microsoft Office 2019 are eligible for ten years of support following their release, during which Microsoft releases updates for the product. The ten-year period is divided into two five-year phases:Read More »Microsoft Office Support Lifecycle Explained
Just a few of days ago (Sep 6, 2018) Microsoft announced Windows 7 Extended Support Upgrade (ESU) where businesses can now pay to extend Windows 7 Security Updates Beyond January 14, 2020. (See summary of announcement here )
Although pricing was not revealed, the blog post announcement, authored by Jared Spataro, Corporate Vice President for Office and Windows Marketing stated:
“[T]oday we are announcing that we will offer paid Windows 7 Extended Security Updates (ESU) through January 2023. The Windows 7 ESU will be sold on a per-device basis and the price will increase each year,”
Read More »Windows 7 Extended Support Update Packages Pricing
I wanted to write something about a question I get often asked:
What is the pricing and the differences between the different versions of Microsoft 365.
Microsoft has a variety of productivity and security management offerings that small to medium-sized and large enterprise customers may consider when upgrading their desktop and device infrastructure, each bringing features and functionality depending on the version you purchase.
Microsoft 365 combines Office 365, Windows 10 and Enterprise Mobility + Security (EMS) providing selected offerings of each into three different packages; Business, E3 and E5. These combinations, give organisations access to a range of powerful productivity and security solutions and at a more cost effective price than purchasing these products separately
If you have not seen the latest (January 27, 2017) Microsoft Tech Summit video from Michael Niehaus you are missing a lot ! Enhance Windows… Read More »Tech Summit 2017:Latest Windows 10 Deployment Video
[ Update 20161004: I encourage you to watch Brad Anderson’s keynote session at Microsoft Ignite 2016 – Simply IMPRESSIVE! ] As I have written before, technology… Read More »The Value Proposition of a Platform: Microsoft Win10/Office365/EM+S
This is really good news… Microsoft Live Writer is a tool I use daily, and for several years no one knew what the future of… Read More »Microsoft Live Writer goes Open Source
Interesting article on how Microsoft's $15 billion cloud bet ended up at the center of the company http:/ /bit.ly/1Nq7bIZ
I have been asked a couple of times about end of Mainstream support for Windows 7 Regarding Windows 7: January 12, 2015 – Microsoft will… Read More »Windows 7 End of Mainstream Support Implications
My professional live has revolved, in great percentage, around Microsoft and Microsoft technologies. It has been a good life, but over the few years… Read More »Microsoft: A Platform Agnostic Company – Yeah!
This weekend I upgraded several of my Windows 8 machines to Windows 8.1 which I got from my MSDN subscription… Here are a few notes… Read More »My Windows 8.1 Upgrade Experience
The Infrastructure Planning and Design (IPD) guides series have been updated to reflect the version upgrades and changes to the Microsoft product line in the… Read More »Updated IPD from Microsoft
It is simply amazing to see how much is Microsot investing into its online division. Based on the the latest Microsoft quarterly result published last week,… Read More »Microsoft Online – $4B startup and counting
We are often asked what is Windows Azure, and how does it help the business. Explaining what an application hosting platform is, and how it… Read More »Windows Azure – Simple Explanation
According to a CNN report today, “More than 100 people, many of them dressed in black, were expected to gather around a coffin Thursday… Read More »IE6: You will be remembered…
Microsoft’ Ron Markezich, Corporate Vice President of Microsoft Online, made available a basic but interesting video on his views on cloud computing adoption which he expressed… Read More »Cloud Computing – Basics
“Strange things are afoot at the Circle K.” – Theodore Logan. In this case it would be at the “Circle M” – strange and cool… Read More »XP Mode and Windows Virtual PC
Microsoft’s Business productivity Online Services (BPOS) is getting ready to officially launch within a few weeks… They have moved all beta users in to release… Read More »Microsoft’s BPOS Offering / Cloud Computing…
A stunning piece of news that I would have been incredulous to hear if I hadn’t been there when they said it. I think Microsoft… Read More »Microsoft will spend $8B to catch up in cloud computing
Huzzah! MDOP has been updated! The App-V Blog : MDOP 2008 R2 Releases to Manufacturing! MDOP 2008 R2 Releases to Manufacturing! In case you missed… Read More »MDOP 2008 R2 RTM
What do the title topics and the actor Kevin Bacon have in common? I dunno – it just sounded funny after listing all of the… Read More »Vista, Microsoft Mesh, Windows 7, Application Virtualization and Kevin Bacon
If you’re a sysadmin for a small shop and are letting desktops update on their own, or if you’re at home and running XP, you… Read More »Windows XP SP3 Release Candidate – How to get it via Windows Update
Best Practice Alert – did you folks in the app-virtusphere know that Office 2k7 was not initially designed for virtualization? I’m a bit bemused by… Read More »Office 2007 And AppVirt
Microsoft recently updated and renamed its Business Desktop Deployment Solution Accelerator and as of a short time ago, Microsoft Deployment 1.0 was born. It’s now available for public download, and this article attempts to describe some of the major feature enhancements since BDD 2007.