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    70-697 Practice Test – Windows 10 Devices in 2016

    Welcome to the free practice test for 70-697 – Configuring Windows Devices. This simulated multiple-choice test was handwritten for the benefit of other IT professionals including engineers, helpdesk and managers. It contains 15 random questions selected from a wide range of Windows 10 topics – all relevant to the 70-697 […]

  • Patch Tuesday: Microsoft released 12 patches, 8 rated critical, 1 for a zero-day

    For Patch Tuesday December 2015, Microsoft released 12 security updates, 8 fixes rated critical for remote code execution vulnerabilities and one ‘important’ patch for a zero-day hole. Way to go! Congratulations on suffering through another year of deploying security patches. Microsoft released 12 security bulletins for the last Patch Tuesday […]

  • Microsoft zaps dodgy Dell digital certificates

    The company’s security tools will remove the eDellRoot and DSDTestProvider certificates Microsoft has updated several of its security tools to remove two digital certificates installed on some Dell computers that could compromise data. The updates apply to Windows Defender for Windows 10 and 8.1; Microsoft Security Essentials for Windows 7 […]

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    What’s behind the odd couple Microsoft-Red Hat partnership

    Latest move by Microsoft to support open source technology. No, hell has not frozen over, but yes Microsoft and Red Hat have announced a major partnership today. In a collaboration that would have been unthinkable just a few years ago, Microsoft – the purveyor of the mainstream and proprietary Windows […]

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    5 dead operating systems, and what their ghosts can tell us

    We conduct a séance of sorts to call forth the souls of operating systems past—not so we can gaze upon their ghastly interfaces, but to learn from their tragic demises. Tremble, mortals! Halloween is upon us. Ghosts, ghouls, and other undesirable creatures are prepared to slink out of their domains […]

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    77-882 Excel 2010

    QUESTION 1 You work as a Sales Assistant at ABC.com. All users in the Sales department run Microsoft Office 2010. You currently have Excel 2010 open and are working on a new workbook. You want to open an existing workbook that is saved in your Documents folder. Which two of […]

  • 70-337 Enterprise Voice & Online Services with Microsoft Lync Server 2013

    QUESTION 1 You have an Active Directory domain named contoso.com. Your company has a Microsoft Office 365 subscription. Twenty users are enabled for Microsoft Lync Online. The users frequently travel. The users report that they receive the following error message when they attempt to sign in to Microsoft Lync from […]

  • Microsoft tests SharePoint 2016 and enterprise cloud hybrid search

    New tools preview Microsoft’s upcoming workplace collaboration software upgrades Microsoft is giving IT administrators a glimpse of the future with two betas the company launched Monday. SharePoint Server 2016 is the latest version of Microsoft’s popular team collaboration software, and the just-released beta is designed to give IT administrators an […]

  • Microsoft tells some Insiders to stop using Windows 10 preview

    Tuesday’s build 10525 warns Insiders, ‘You may not use this software if you have not validly acquired a license for the software from Microsoft’ With the resumption of Windows 10 builds to testers, Microsoft has told users they may not have the right to run the software and again begun […]

  • Microsoft’s rollout of Windows 10 gets B+ grade

    General vibe of the new OS remains positive, say analysts Microsoft has done a good job rolling out Windows 10 in the first two weeks, analysts said today, and the general vibe for Windows 8’s replacement has been positive, even though glitches have dampened some enthusiasm. “If I had to […]