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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Microsoft Certifications Excel in Four Key Areas

Stop for a minute and consider the range of Microsoft’s offerings and the longevity of its creations. This is a company that has not only given the world what is perhaps the gold standard in desktop publishing and office productivity software (Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook, etc.) but it’s also infiltrated our home lives as well through gaming and portability. (We’re looking at you, Xbox and Surface!) Microsoft is the foundation for an incredible number of businesses; eighty percent of the Fortune 500 is on the Microsoft Cloud. More than 400 million devices are running Windows 10. In short: Microsoft is everywhere.

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