Compute, Infrastructure, and Systems Management

New! Evaluating Digital Sovereignty Options   March 16, 2026 Digital sovereignty is increasingly important as enterprises face shifting legal and geopolitical environments. Microsoft has...more Microsoft 365 Backup Targets Exchange and SharePoint Online Using a PAYG model Updated: March 10, 2026 Microsoft 365 Backup provides backup of Exchange Online mailboxes, OneDrive for work accounts, and SharePoint...more SharePoint Embedded: Document Management Without SharePoint Updated: March 9, 2026 SharePoint Embedded provides storage in Microsoft 365 with built-in document management for custom apps but...more Demystifying Microsoft’s Copilots Updated: March 6, 2026 Copilot is an umbrella brand applied to a range of Microsoft technologies, most of which...more Six Steps from On-Premises to Full Cloud March 2, 2026 The move from on-premises Active Directory to the Microsoft-hosted Entra ID infrastructure is a gradual...more M365 Agent Value Could Be Revealed by New Agent Dashboard March 1, 2026 The new Agent Dashboard in Viva Insights shows metrics of deployed Microsoft 365 Copilot-based agents...more 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 VMware Rapid Migration Plan Loses Incentives: Some Benefits for Commitment Remain Updated: February 18, 2026 Note: Following a further extension of the deadline for the VMware Rapid Migration Plan to...more NTLM to Be Disabled in Future Releases February 5, 2026 NTLM will be disabled by default in the next versions of Windows Server and client....more Windows Point-in-Time Restore Is Windows, Yesterday January 28, 2026 Windows Point-in-Time Restore is a new preview feature of Windows 11 that should help customers...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 How to Apply Azure Reservations and Savings Plans Effectively January 10, 2026 Azure compute is typically the single largest cost category of resources that an organization will...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

Server Application Version Support March 17, 2026 Communication Services Overview July 3, 2025 Windows Server Editions Updated: April 2, 2025 Azure Arc Sample Deployment Updated: October 11, 2024

  Licensing Reference Azure Savings Plans Azure savings plans allow organizations to specify the amount of VM compute resources that will...more   Product Reference SharePoint Embedded SharePoint Embedded is document management infrastructure for custom apps.   Product Reference Data Lake Storage Flexible architectural choices enable performance, cost optimization, scalability, and resilience across diverse data lake workloads.   Licensing Reference Data Lake Storage Cost optimization requires aligning storage tiers, redundancy, and transactions with access patterns.   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   Licensing Reference Fabric Data Warehouse   Product Reference Azure Local Azure Local, formerly known as Azure Stack HCI, is Microsoft’s primary server host OS for...more   Product Reference Azure VMware Solution Azure VMware Solution (AVS) offers virtualization, storage, and networking for managed VMs using VMware software...more   Product Reference Kubernetes Service Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Microsoft’s flagship Kubernetes (often abbreviated as “K8s”) offering, provides orchestration (deployment,...more   Product Reference Batch Azure Batch allows customers to distribute workloads over groups of VMs to leverage Azure’s scalability...more

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