Meltdown and Spectre: How to Handle These New Vulnerabilities

On January 3, 2018, a group of researchers announced a series of vulnerabilities affecting nearly all microprocessors since 1995. Over the last several weeks, you’ve probably seen many dramatic articles proclaiming doom and gloom regarding Meltdown and Spectre. Even the names strike fear to your core as you conjure images of a digital apocalypse.

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Best Practices for Share Permissions in Windows Server 2016

Most of us have heard of “oversharing” in the social sense (i.e. giving out too many details of your personal life), but how about “undersharing” in the Windows Server realm? What does that even mean? Well, I sort of just made that up, but it does actually make some sense when you think about it in terms of creating a Windows Share that doesn’t provide enough permissions.

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Course Spotlight: Cloud Workload Planning

It’s inevitable that your company will migrate a workload to the cloud. Since there’s no escaping it, we have launched a new, exclusive course (Cloud Workload Planning) to help stakeholders understand the process of planning a workload migration and selecting a cloud provider. This vendor-neutral, non-technical course provides hands-on exercises and a case study to help you avoid unnecessary surprises as your company undergoes a cloud-based transformation.

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