Year: 2013

Microsoft’s BYOD game plan is surprisingly impartial

Behind every endpoint device is a connection to the network, and Microsoft appears to be working hard to improve that. Microsoft has wrapped up its annual TechEd North America conference in New Orleans, which means those unfortunate enough to have gone should be finished wringing the sweat out of their clothes by now. Among the […]

Microsoft Office 365 lands in US iPhone App Store

Office Mobile is only available for iPhone, iPad users can use Office Web Apps for now, Microsoft said Microsoft released a version of its office suite for iPhones in the U.S. that is only available for Office 365 subscribers. Microsoft released the Microsoft Office Mobile suite for iPhones Friday. The software is compatible with iPhone […]

Microsoft patches critical IE vulnerabilities and actively exploited Office flaw

Microsoft patches critical IE vulnerabilities and actively exploited Office flaw Patching the vulnerabilities in IE and Office should be a priority, security researchers said A new batch of security updates released by Microsoft on Tuesday address a total of 23 vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer, Windows and Microsoft Office, including one that is actively exploited by […]

70-162 – TS: Forefront Protection for Endpoints and Applications, Configuring

QUESTION 1 You work as a Security Administrator at ABC.com. The network consists of a single Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) domain with servers running Windows Server 2008 and client computers running Windows 7 Professional. A pool of Windows 2008 Servers hosts the Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 environment. You have recently implemented Forefront Protection […]

70-630 – TS:Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, Configuring

QUESTION 1 You work as a SharePoint Server administrator at ABC.com. You have just the completed the insertion of new content in the root site. However, later that day the users complained that the new content is not added in the search results when they run searches on the root site. You need to make […]

Microsoft : Hybrid cloud is good for IT, end users and corporate bottom line

At TechEd Brad Anderson, Microsoft vice president of Windows Server and System Center details hybrid cloud vision Microsoft’s vision of corporations using hybrid cloud has benefits for IT departments and end users as well as cost savings, says Brad Anderson, Microsoft vice president of Windows Server and System Center. IT departments can look forward to […]

TechEd: Microsoft preps system software for cloud usage

TechEd’s first day unveils the Azure-friendly Windows Server 2012 R2, System Center 2012 R2, Visual Studio 2013 and SQL Server 2014 Microsoft is updating a number of its IT infrastructure and development tools to work more seamlessly with its Azure hosted cloud services, including Windows Server, System Center, Visual Studio and SQL Server. Brad Anderson, […]

Don’t look now, but Microsoft is surprising in the cloud

No doubt Microsoft will cling to on-premises until the bitter end, but it’s become a very successful cloud provider. Conventional wisdom says that a revolutionary company in one segment usually can’t make the leap to the next, especially if the next revolution comes at the expense of the technology built by that initial company. Ergo, […]

Google’s latest Penguin update lets you squeal on spammy websites — as well as anyone else

Penguin 2.0 makes large-scale algorithm changes, affecting 2.3% of U.S.-English results The latest version of Google’s sophisticated anti-spam algorithm, dubbed Penguin 2.0, was announced yesterday in an official blog post from the company’s well-known webspam czar, Mike Cutts. The 2.0 label was applied, according to Cutts, because the update is a major one — it […]

Windows 8 Update: Microsoft sacks iPad in Windows 8 ad, join forces with NFL

About those lofty Windows Store app numbers… A new ad from Microsoft mocks iPads by comparing them – unfavorably – to tablets running Windows 8, which receive live updates on their Start screens, run office apps, display two apps at a time and support Microsoft Office applications – things iPads don’t do. The ad has […]

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