If you have to create several identical VMs that deviate significantly from the wizard's defaults in the Hyper-V Manager, it results in a lot of manual work. Alternatively, PowerShell offers cmdlets for this purpose that can add and configure virtual hardware, such as network adapters or VHDs.

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Reply All storms have been a nuisance that was left unchecked for a long time. Microsoft has finally decided to crack down on this rather reprehensible aspect of Exchange. In this article, you will be introduced to the Reply All Storm Protection component of Microsoft 365. You will also learn the tenant-level settings that you can now modify to control and manage this feature.

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It has long been the best practice to use a separate desktop environment to perform risky activities, such as Internet browsing, opening files from the Internet, or performing other sensitive activities. While, in theory, VMs provide an excellent answer for this use case, they can be cumbersome and challenging to manage in practice. Hysolate is a solution that effectively streamlines the use of a separate VM environment for risky activities.

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Azure Stack HCI is Microsoft's preferred platform for configuring hyperconverged clusters. Windows Admin Center contains a wizard that can set up the entire environment based on a bare OS installation on the nodes. This also includes software-defined storage with S2D.

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VMware vSphere 7 has networking policies that can be applied to both vSphere Standard Switch (VSS) and vSphere Distributed Switch (VDS).

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ManageEngine ServiceDesk Plus is a full-stack IT service management (ITSM) suite that provides the tools you would expect of an IT service desk, such as service requests, problem tracking, change requests, and asset management. However, it goes far beyond the basic capabilities by providing additional functionality, and features, including a knowledge base, configuration management database (CMDB), tracking purchases, contracts, preventive maintenance, reporting capabilities, and many other features.

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Finding a particular event in the Windows Event Viewer to troubleshoot a certain issue is often a difficult, cumbersome task. With the help of PowerShell and the Convert-EventLogRecord function from Jeffery Hicks, it is much easier to search for events in the Event Log than with the Event Viewer or the Get-WinEvent cmdlet.

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Microsoft's Conditional Access is an Azure Active Directory (AAD) feature that increases security with remote and "work from anywhere" employees. Businesses can restrict access to cloud resources depending on the conditions of a remote worker's connection. This article will show you how to define such policies.

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Shortly after releasing Windows Admin Center (WAC) 2103, Microsoft released the minor update 2103.2. It introduces some interesting new features, mainly for Azure Stack HCI, but other tools also benefit from it.

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VMware vSphere 7 has a really good system for configuring different workloads and their requirements. You might have VMs that are meant to stay together on the same host, or you might have VMs that should not be executed on the same host. VMware calls this VM-to-VM affinity and anti-affinity rules. When studying to pass the VMware VCP-DCV exam, knowledge of affinity and anti-affinity rules is required.

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This step-by-step guide explains how to create a hybrid DNS solution between AWS and an on-prem network using AWS Route 53 Resolver endpoints. That integration enables you to resolve DNS records in AWS Route 53 private hosted zones/VPCs from the on-prem network and to resolve DNS records in the on-prem network DNS from AWS services hosted in VPCs.

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The Microsoft 365 Threat protection status report is an amalgamation of several Exchange Online security reports that contain information about malicious messages detected by Exchange Online Protection (EOP) and Office 365 ATP. This article gives an overview of the Threat protection status report.

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While Microsoft has introduced a newer remote print solution called Universal Print, many organizations may not want to shift printing services to the cloud. However, they might still want to extend their ability to connect to printers for remote clients outside the corporate network. Windows Server Internet Printing serves this purpose.

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Selecting products for synchronization using the WSUS console is relatively cumbersome. With PowerShell, you can filter them by search terms and then decide to subscribe or cancel the synchronization. The classifications can also be handled in this way.

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Microsoft officially released Universal Print for productive use in the first quarter of 2021. It not only complements Windows Virtual Desktop, but also allows companies to move their local print infrastructure to the cloud. However, most organizations are likely to use cloud printing only as an additional option for the time being.

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Microsoft has released version 21H1 of Windows 10. This is a small update that is activated via an enablement package. At the same time, the ADMX templates for the group policies, which contain ten new settings, are available. There are no notable changes with the Security Baseline, the ADK, or the RSAT.

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Microsoft rolled out a new feature that allows you to set out of office messages in Microsoft Teams. In this article, I explain how you can create out of office messages, and I will show how you how to turn on and off out of office messages in the desktop and the web version of Microsoft Teams.

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Runecast Analyzer is an all-in-one solution that provides organizations with an automated way to align their hybrid cloud environments with recommended best practices and security configurations. It helps mitigate risks and achieve compliance objectives. Runecast uses a unique AI-driven process that converts industry best practice resources into a form that is readable and consumable for use with your Runecast appliance.

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If you have to create several identical VMs that deviate significantly from the wizard's defaults in the Hyper-V Manager, it results in a lot of manual work. Alternatively, PowerShell offers cmdlets for this purpose that can add and configure virtual hardware, such as network adapters or VHDs.

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