Microsoft Intune is a cloud-driven service that allows businesses to onboard, provision, and manage devices, no matter where they are located on the Internet. It covers most tasks that admins have to deal with during a PC's lifecycle management. Patch management is one of these tasks; Microsoft Intune is capable of managing updates.

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Using Microsoft Intune to perform Windows feature updates works well. In the last year, reporting, and additional status information have been added, which has added a great deal of control. However, in many scenarios, we need to fix that one application or uninstall a new built-in app that Security wants removed. The scenarios are endless.

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With the end of support for Internet Explorer (IE) in June 2022, companies will have to switch to a modern browser. In many cases, it will be Microsoft Edge because it offers some compatibility features. First and foremost, it can use the integrated IE engine to open legacy pages or applications. Group policies offer several options for this.

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Recently, Microsoft released Windows Server 2022 and Windows 11 in Insider Preview. Today, we will see whether the old tricks to reset the administrator password and gain access to Windows systems using built-in tools, such as Utilman.exe, still work or were mitigated.

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vSphere Tanzu is a product suite that brings container management to the VMware environment. In this post, we'll detail different Tanzu editions from VMware: Tanzu Basic, Tanzu Standard, and Tanzu Advanced.

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The key difference between Docker and Podman lies in architectural design. Docker's design is a client-server-based design, whereas Podman excludes the daemon dependency.

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When deploying Windows clients or servers, you can use OS images to deploy customized and patched operating system installations in a uniform and seamless way. The challenge comes not from creating images initially, but from servicing them. The PowerShell module OSDBuilder simplifies this task.

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Learn how to perform core administrative tasks on the Azure Cosmos DB using Azure PowerShell.

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The various removable storage media, which can be connected to a PC via plug-and-play, pose a risk of data theft or infection with malware. Admins can prevent the installation of such devices via Group Policy. A recently introduced setting now allows whitelisting of the approved peripherals.

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VMware implemented containers with VMware Integrated Containers (VIC) back in early 2019. Shortly afterward, VMware Tanzu was released, which significantly improved container management. This post gives an overview of the container technology from a VMware admin's point of view.

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To avoid cost surprises in Amazon's cloud, you can leverage AWS Cost Anomaly Detection. This step-by-step guide explains how to configure AWS Cost Anomaly Detection.

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Get familiar with Azure Status dashboard, Azure Service Health, Service Health Alerts, Azure Resource Health, and Azure Resource Graph to ensure you're never surprised by a planned or unplanned outage that could affect your Microsoft Azure deployments.

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Windows Server 2022 will be available in two main editions: Standard and Datacenter. In addition, Microsoft will introduce a new edition for Azure. Windows Server Essentials will no longer be a separate SKU, and there is a new OS for hyperconverged systems.

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Until now, with each new version of Windows Server LTSC, Microsoft released a corresponding version of the free Hyper-V Server. However, this will no longer be the case with Windows Server 2022. Instead, Microsoft now directs users to Azure Stack HCI.

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With ESXi 7.0 Update 2, VMware has introduced a new way to boot the ESXi installer by using native UEFI HTTP. What is it? It is a way to boot the ESXi installer over the network but without setting up the whole PXE infrastructure (PXE server, TFTP, and DHCP).

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As workers transition to remote environments, they need to have a mobile device management (MDM) platform uninhibited by connectivity to the corporate network. Microsoft Intune is a cloud-based service that provides effective MDM and mobile application management (MAM).

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The Amazon CloudWatch Agent enables you to collect metrics, custom metrics, and logs from within Windows and Linux EC2 instances. This step-by-step guide explains how to install and configure the Amazon CloudWatch Agent on EC2 instances.

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Learn how to customize your PowerShell console to display meaningful metadata in your Windows command shell with Powerline.

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Privileged Access Management is increasingly important with the rise of account compromise and the resulting data breaches. Securden’s new Unified PAM solution offers an all-in-one solution for PAM in the enterprise.

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