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.
Read moreStop 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.
Read moreDynamic Access Control (DAC) in Windows Server 2012 lets you manage access to documents in ways that go beyond classic NTFS (New Technology File System) permissions. For example, if you want to allow a set of users in an office across the country or across the globe read-only access to files relating to the Wind Turbine Project, DAC can do the job.
Read moreDuring the past few years, Microsoft’s battle cry has been to take on the cloud, and with the advent of Azure and Office 365, that’s pretty much what they did. Core Microsoft technologies from the operating systems to higher-level services such as messaging, collaboration and telephony are now available as Software as a Service (SaaS). Taking things one step further, Microsoft recently announced their new MCSA: Office 365, which fully validates their commitment to the cloud and the training to support it.
Read moreOfficial retirement of the MCITP: Enterprise Administrator on Windows Server 2008 and MCITP: Virtualization Administrator on Windows Server 2008 R2 certifications is January 31, 2014. So, what next?
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