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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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VMware vSphere 7 High Availability (HA) advanced options are useful when you need to provide specific networking due to local network requirements or you need to change some uncommon behavior.

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Webhooks, which send data in JSON format over HTTP, are ideal for informing systems about events. This can be used, for example, to notify Microsoft Teams about events and store them in an action card. Actions for problem solving can also be included.

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The Checkmk monitoring solution provides both an open-source and an enterprise monitoring solution that allows companies to access a wide range of monitoring capabilities. This review of Checkmk features looks at the latest version, Checkmk 2.0.

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In this article, you will learn how to use the Microsoft 365 Attack simulation training tool effectively. By the end of this post, you will know how to launch simulated attacks in your tenant, analyze the results, and take preventive measures. By doing so, you will harden the security of your environment in the long run.

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Performing a manual installation of Windows Server is acceptable if you have only a single machine to install. However, if you deploy multiple instances, you want to use an automated approach. One of the oldest mechanisms provided by Microsoft for this purpose is answer files. This article shows you how to create them with Windows System Image Manager.

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The Virtual Machine Compute Optimizer (VMCO) is a free tool from the VMware Flings site at flings.vmware.com that enables you to capture information about the hosts and VMs running in your vSphere environment. It generates a report on your VMs and shows you whether your VMs are optimized. It takes the configuration of the host's memory and CPU into consideration.

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