Microsoft Brings Local Predictive Analytics Capabilities to Windows Server

In this Ask the Admin, Russel looks at the new analytics capabilities in Windows Server 2019.

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Happy 10th Birthday Hyper-V!

Happy 10th Birthday Hyper-V [Image Credit: Jeff Woolsey, @WSV_GUY]

On February 19, 2003, Microsoft announced that the corporation has acquired a privately held virtualization vendor called Connectix. It might not have seemed like it then, but this acquisition was the genesis of something huge in the IT world, and I’m not limiting that to just Hyper-V.

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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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Microsoft Previews Storage Migration Service in Windows Server 2019

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Microsoft releases a preview of Storage Migration Service in the latest Insider version of Windows Server 2019. In this Ask the Admin, I’ll provide an overview of what it is and how it works.

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Everything You Need to Know About Azure Infrastructure — April 2018

We’re just a few weeks away from the Microsoft Build conference, where historically, a lot of announcements are made.

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Everything You Need to Know About Azure Infrastructure — March 2018 Edition

Month 3 of 2018 brought us some interesting news in Azure IaaS. Some things that have been in the oven for a while are starting to rise and there’s lots more evidence of the new and open Microsoft.

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Stop Taking Advice From “A Person Connected To Microsoft”

One of the things that annoys me in our industry is how supposedly educated people take advice and guidance on IT from no-nothings, the barfly, or the town idiot.

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