Everything You Need to Know About Windows — June 2018

This month sees Microsoft hold its first virtual Windows Server Summit with lots of news about upcoming features. Plus, Sets disappear from the latest RS5 Insider build and Microsoft is using AI to drive the Windows 10 April 2018 Update rollout.

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New Windows Autopilot Deployment Options in Windows 10 1803 and Redstone 5

In this Ask the Admin, I’ll look at the new deployment options for Windows Autopilot in the current and next version of Windows 10.

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Patch Tuesday — June 2018

PC Market Declined Almost 5 Percent in Q2 2016

In this month’s Patch Tuesday, Microsoft released a disabled-by-default patch for Spectre 4, Adobe plugs a zero-day Flash vulnerability that can be exploited via Excel, and there are fixes for DNS, black screens, and Cortana.

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Microsoft Breathes Life into Win32 Apps with .NET Core 3.0 and UWP XAML Islands

At the beginning of March and at its developer conference in May, Microsoft made several announcements about the future of Win32 apps. In this Ask the Admin, I’ll look at how those developments will affect the application landscape in Windows.

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Reset Expired Domain Admin Password in Azure VM

If you only have one domain admin account set up in a Windows Server domain running in an Azure VM, you might be left struggling to enter a new password when the current one expires. In this Ask the Admin, I’ll show you how to reset a domain account password using an Azure VM extension.

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MSIX Installer to Bring More Win32 Apps to Microsoft Store

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Microsoft’s new MSIX unified packaging format promises to make it easier to bring legacy apps to the Store, even if you don’t have access to the app’s source code. In this Ask the Admin, I’ll explore how MSIX differs from existing tech, like the Desktop Bridge.

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Everything You Need to Know About Windows — May 2018

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This month I look at Windows 10 April 2018 Update woes, Progressive Web Apps in the Microsoft Store, new productivity features, and new security features in the next version of Windows.

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What Is Microsoft’s Intelligent Edge?

Behind the Numbers: Microsoft Continues Its Transition to the Cloud

There’s been a lot of talk again this year at Build about Azure, IoT, and cloud computing in general but one term that keeps cropping up is the ‘Intelligent Edge’. In this Ask the Admin, I’ll explain Microsoft’s cloud vision in more detail.

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