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Product Review: A Bigger Cloud with SMEStorage
Product Reviews SMEStorage provides a convenient, common place for users to park cloud data stored with multiple vendors. Everything seems to be headed to the cloud. For e-mail, calendar, social applications and, most recently, storage, the cloud is quickly becoming the go-to landing spot for computing for businesses and consumers alike. Of course, the list of storage providers in the cloud is much like the listings for pizza in the Yellow Pages; every time you look, there are more of them.
Inside the Windows Intune Wave 2 Beta: New Features Overview
Product Reviews The updated security management service features impressive remote-management and deployment capabilities. Back in March, Microsoft released a new systems-management service called Windows Intune. The service allows customers to enroll their PCs and manage things like Windows updates, antivirus and anti-malware applications on dispersed computers using the Internet.
Active Directory Change Reporter 7.0 Review
Product Reviews Active Directory Change Reporter 7.0 offers some useful features for Active Directory admins who want to get a better handle on what's going on in their environments. Among the many challenges of managing an Active Directory environment is making sure unauthorized changes or errors aren't introduced into the repository. AD doesn't have the most robust auditing and management capabilities.
ScriptLogic Privilege Authority: Boosting User Productivity
Product Reviews Users gain some needed control over their applications without surrendering security or stability. Microsoft Windows has come a long way with the release of Windows 7, especially in driving users -- and in some cases, administrators -- crazy with functions like User Account Control (UAC). Best practice states that you should leave these features enabled to cut down the likelihood that malware or viruses (or users) can get access to areas of the system that they shouldn't have.
Review: SolarWinds Storage Manager
Product Reviews Centralized monitoring of storage environments helps ease the storage burden for IT pros and users alike. With SANs and NAS becoming the norm for both the enterprise and personal computing (welcome to the cloud), there's very little that IT staffs can expect users to manage all on their own. As an all-around IT administrator, I tend to cringe a little when I hear tales of files being stored locally.
Product Review: LastPass
Product Reviews LastPass keeps your passwords secure and organized. I've been looking for a solid password management application to simplify access to all the Web sites I visit. While Web browsers have their own built-in password managers, I don't think it's a good idea to rely on them. First, the passwords browsers keep are often stored in plain text, which obviously isn't secure. Second, the passwords are only available from the computer or device used to store the information.
Product Review: ShadowProtect 5
Product Reviews ShadowProtect 5 wizards let IT pros easily stage backups and view multiple targets from a single management console. Taking care of backup and recovery is one of the most important things you can do, whether you're running an enterprise datacenter or merely looking to ensure your own PC is protected.
Review: Veeam Backup & Replication 6.5
Product Reviews The Veeam application eases backups and excels with restorations, ensuring a reliable disaster recovery environment. Disaster happens. That's a fact of life and the only thing you as IT pros can do is ensure your environments are as recoverable as possible. Having recently migrated a good portion of my environment to a virtualized configuration, I wanted to find a backup and recovery application geared toward this environment.
V-locity 4 Review: Optimize Your Virtual Guest Machines
Product Reviews Best known for its Diskeeper software, Condusiv is also adding new capabilities to enable organizations to increase performance from virtual servers with V-locity 4. VMs allow IT shops to make better use of their available datacenter resources by improving the density of workloads on each set of physical hardware.
Review: Staying Patched with SolarWinds
Product Reviews Review: Staying Patched with SolarWinds Patch Manager 1.8 is a useful companion to Windows Server Update Services, and eases the distribution and reporting of patches and security fixes. Keeping computers up-to-date and safe from malware, viruses and other threats is one of the biggest challenges faced by IT pros. Almost all applications, except maybe calc.exe, must constantly be patched. Some updates are small and simple to apply, while others are complex.
Manage and Format Data in Excel
Microsoft Office expert Paul McFedries illustrates methods for filling cells based on existing data, formatting and validating data, and applying advanced conditional formatting and filtering. This includes how to use Flash Fill and advanced Fill Series options.
Comment Azure AD complète Active Directory
Sergey Nivens - stock.adobe.com Les utilisateurs d’Azure ont à portée de clic une version cloud d’Active Directory. Mais ce n’est pas une copie parfaite de la version locale de l’annuaire. Apprenez comment utiliser les deux ensemble. par Derek Schauland, Innova Technologies Les clients de Microsoft ne connaissent que trop bien Active Directory pour leurs systèmes internes.
Cross-Platform Wish List: 5 Windows Applications Microsoft Should Port (or Port Better) for Macs
In-Depth Cross-Platform Wish List: 5 Windows Applications Microsoft Should Port (or Port Better) for Macs Microsoft has made great strides over the years in bringing its software to the Apple platform, but there are a few applications that still need to make the move -- or need some work before they can really hum on a Mac. Over the years, Microsoft has come up with a slew of applications that work extremely well on the PC but have no port for the Mac.
Public Cloud Test Drive: Amazon S3, Windows Azure & Rackspace Cloud Files
In-Depth Public Cloud Test Drive: Amazon S3, Windows Azure & Rackspace Cloud Files Your quick guide to using these three solutions to protect and recover your enterprise data in the public cloud. Public cloud services are increasingly becoming feasible targets for backup and recovery of enterprise data. The biggest reason to consider a cloud services provider is for the disbursement of resources.
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Cross-Platform Wish List: 5 Windows Applications Microsoft Should Port (or Port Better) for Macs
In-Depth Cross-Platform Wish List: 5 Windows Applications Microsoft Should Port (or Port Better) for Macs Microsoft has made great strides over the years in bringing its software to the Apple platform, but there are a few applications that still need to make the move -- or need some work before they can really hum on a Mac. Over the years, Microsoft has come up with a slew of applications that work extremely well on the PC but have no port for the Mac.
Public Cloud Test Drive: Amazon S3, Windows Azure & Rackspace Cloud Files
In-Depth Public Cloud Test Drive: Amazon S3, Windows Azure & Rackspace Cloud Files Your quick guide to using these three solutions to protect and recover your enterprise data in the public cloud. Public cloud services are increasingly becoming feasible targets for backup and recovery of enterprise data. The biggest reason to consider a cloud services provider is for the disbursement of resources.
Microsoft Azure AD complements Active Directory
Microsoft IT shops are all too familiar with Active Directory for on-premises workloads. There's also an Azure variant of the service available when you're ready to move to the cloud, though don't expect it to be a one-to-one replacement. Active Directory and Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) are different, but they aren't necessarily competing offerings from Microsoft. Instead, Azure AD extends Active Directory to the cloud and brings existing users and groups into Office 365 and Azure.
Microsoft Azure AD complements Active Directory
Fotolia By Derek Schauland, Innova Technologies Published: 27 Jun 2019 Microsoft IT shops are all too familiar with Active Directory for on-premises workloads. There's also an Azure variant of the service available when you're ready to move to the cloud, though don't expect it to be a one-to-one replacement. Active Directory and Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) are different, but they aren't necessarily competing offerings from Microsoft.
Azure DevTest Labs offers complement to on-premises testing
Azure DevTest Labs brings a consistent development and test environment to cost-conscious enterprises. The service... also gives admins the chance to explore Azure's capabilities and determine other ways the cloud can assist the business. A DevTest Lab in Azure puts a virtual machine in the cloud to verify developer code before it moves to the organization's test environment. This practice unveils initial bugs before operations starts an assessment.
Stand up infrastructure on a budget with Azure DevTest Labs
Many businesses expect IT teams to do more without giving them more money -- and, sometimes, cutting an already... small budget. But new projects mean test and development -- an expensive endeavor in the data center. One way to alleviate this financial strain is to move those test and development workloads into the cloud.
Navigate the Microsoft roadmap and keep IT pros challenged
IT managers face multiple challenges. Not only do they need to migrate applications to new server OSes or deploy new web servers, they also must retain a troupe of talented Windows administrators -- despite financial limitations. Many Windows-based system admins and IT pros typically land in three camps -- those that stick closely to Microsoft's roadmap, those that try to stay afloat with specific upgrades and those who sit back and wait for the hype to cool.
Prevent Data Leakage with Windows Information Protection
Windows Information Protection is among many new security features introduced in last year’s Windows 10 Anniversary Update release, bringing data loss prevention to the OS. Among the numerous security improvements Microsoft added to Windows 10 last summer, administrators can now create policies in the OS aimed at reducing data leakage.
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