Azure Site Recovery Adds Support for WS2016

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Microsoft recently added support for Windows Server 2016 (WS2016) Hyper-V to its disaster recovery (DR) service (DRaaS) or DR orchestration & replication solution, Azure Site Recovery (ASR). Find out what this means for you.

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Windows 7 not supported on New PCs — Intel and AMD Toe the Line

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With new PC chips rapidly approaching, here’s a timely reminder about Windows 7 support: There isn’t any—at least not on Intel or AMD’s new silicon. Only Windows 10 is supported. Your downgrade rights were wrenched away, back in January…

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August 2016 updates for Office 365 include new inking features and Windows Information Protection

Microsoft announced several new Office 365 features and a new Office Insider Fast program to get testing early builds at the same time the companies own employees gain access.

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Tracking the Support Lifecycle of Microsoft Products

If you use Microsoft products then it is important to be aware of the lifecycle for that software so that your organization can plan for a steady approach to replacing that product or migrating to the next version.

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Microsoft Once Again Modifies Their Silicon Support Policy for 6th Gen Intel Skylake

Microsoft has once again announced a significant change to plans they initially unveiled in January of this year for their support policies around the 6th Gen Intel Core Skylake chipset.

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Understanding the overhead in an Exchange mailbox database

It’s taken me a while to get around to mentioning the rather useful “Database Growth Reporting” script for Exchange 2010 and Exchange 2013 that was described on the EHLO blog in January.  My apologies for this lapse in service. All I can plead is that other stuff got in the way between now and then and that I never really had a chance to test the code out thoroughly, which is a prerequisite before commenting on software.

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