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Best Practices for Preserving Data While Removing Microsoft 365 Users Updated: February 23, 2026 Offboarding employees is not an IT task; it’s a governance and risk event affecting organizational...more Microsoft 365 Backup Targets Exchange and SharePoint Online Using a PAYG model February 9, 2026 Microsoft 365 Backup provides backup of Exchange Online mailboxes, OneDrive for work accounts, and SharePoint...more Migrate Off SharePoint Server 2016 and 2019 by July 2026 January 12, 2026 Support for SharePoint Server 2019 (SP 2019) and 2016 (SP 2016) ends in July 2026,...more Intune Suite Features Added to Microsoft 365 E5, E3 Ahead of 2026 Price Increases Updated: December 23, 2025 The features of the Intune Suite have been split across the Microsoft 365 E5 and...more Windows Quick Machine Recovery Could Alleviate Future CrowdStrike-Style Outages December 15, 2025 Windows Quick Machine Recovery, a new feature of Windows 11 intended to help recover otherwise...more Azure Copilot Agents Simplify Azure Operation, Optimization December 14, 2025 The Azure portal has had a Copilot for more than a year, but it has...more Azure Local: Vision Still Ahead of the Product December 5, 2025 Azure Local (formerly known as Azure Stack HCI) is Microsoft’s primary server host OS for...more Azure Local to Gain Air-Gap Support November 10, 2025 Several new features have been added to the Azure Local Roadmap, including the general availability...more Sentinel Enables AI Agents with MCP Server Preview October 19, 2025 A new MCP server is available for Microsoft Sentinel, the company’s SIEM, supporting natural language...more Conditional Access: How to Make Best Use of It to Secure Microsoft 365 October 11, 2025 Conditional access supports several approaches to keep Microsoft 365 secure by default. Policy templates, default...more What Tools Can Help Me Deploy and Manage Conditional Access? October 5, 2025 Conditional access (CA) policies within Microsoft 365 are complex to create and troubleshoot. A small set of...more How to Assign Microsoft 365 User Licenses July 10, 2025 Microsoft 365 licenses must be assigned to users before they can use the services. The...more Windows Server 2025 Hotpatching Available as a Subscription July 8, 2025 Windows Server 2025 hotpatching, enabling security update patches without reboots, is generally available as of...more Enabling Intune to Force Apple Updates Improves Security June 7, 2025 Intune now can use managed software updates to force OS updates to all types of...more PowerShell 7.5 Generally Available Under Standard Support April 13, 2025 PowerShell 7.5, the latest Standard Term Support (STS) version of Microsoft’s cross-platform administrative scripting technology,...more Optimizing VM Costs with Scaling Updated: March 1, 2025 Matching resource consumption to actual demand is an important part of controlling Azure VM costs....more

Azure Arc Sample Deployment Updated: October 11, 2024

  Product Reference Microsoft Defender for Endpoint Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is a service that offers endpoint protection features including antimalware on...more   Product Reference Microsoft Defender for Office 365 Microsoft Defender for Office 365 offers two tiers of service that help prevent and assess...more   Product Reference Microsoft Defender for Identity Microsoft Defender for Identity is a Microsoft-hosted service that captures, parses, and analyzes Active Directory...more   Product Reference Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps is a Microsoft-hosted service designed to help organizations discover the...more   Product Reference Entra ID Entra ID is a multitenant identity and access management (IAM) service hosted by Microsoft. The...more   Product Reference Intune Intune is a Microsoft-hosted service that provides mobile device management (MDM) and application management for...more   Product Reference System Center   Product Reference Site Recovery Azure Site Recovery product entry.   Product Reference Advisor Azure Advisor product entry.   Product Reference Policy Azure Policy product entry.   Product Reference Monitor Azure Monitor product entry.   Product Reference Azure Resource Manager Azure Resource Manager product entry.   Product Reference Automation Azure Automation product entry.   Product Reference Automanage Azure Automanage product entry.   Product Reference Lighthouse Azure Lighthouse product entry.   Product Reference Configuration Manager

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