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Quells concerns fueled by cloud emphasis as the company pivots to services from packaged software Microsoft today shut down talk that it would soon stop shipping new versions of its Exchange Server, promising customers that it would continue to develop and release the popular email software for on-premise use. In a post to the Exchange…
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Microsoft Windows Server R2 capbilities to be aware of and consider as part of an IT stratgey. With any server operating system upgrade, IT is always looking for the hooks that help motivate the upgrade process and deliver additional value. Sometimes it is as simple as better performance, a single feature that has been a…
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Microsoft’s productivity apps are $22 billion cash cows As Microsoft Word turns 30 on Oct. 25 it is not only the world’s most pervasive word-processing applications, it is a cash cow for the company. Word is an original application in Microsoft Office, the productivity suite that customers must buy to get Word and that has…
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Ballmer hammers home Microsoft’s ‘high-value’ strategy in final letter to shareholders Unlike last year, no surprises in CEO’s last letter to investors In his last letter to shareholders before retiring, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer hammered on the same themes he and other executives struck three weeks ago in front of Wall Street analysts. Among the…
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Fourteen September bulletins means lots of work for administrators For sheer volume of bulletins – 14 – Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday this month will prove onerous, with one critically important set of patches aimed to fix flaws in all versions of the Internet Explorer browser that can result in remote code execution on victims’ machines. In…
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He has been in hot water over a variety of issues, including Microsoft’s position in the tablet market An accumulation of perceived missteps under Steve Ballmer’s leadership may have hit a tipping point this year, leading to Friday’s groundshaking announcement that Bill Gates’ former right hand and heir, as well as Microsoft’s fiercest cheerleader, will…
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Who Are the Real Winners in the Microsoft-Oracle Deal? Microsoft and Oracle announced a wide-ranging partnership deal in late June. At first glance, the logic behind it was fairly baffling. The agreement lets Oracle customers run its software-including Java, Oracle Database and WebLogic Server-on Microsoft’s Hyper-V hypervisor, in its Azure cloud or on Windows Server.…
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Cloud computing proving to be a piggy-back industry Google Wednesday rolled out load balancing features to its public cloud service, allowing customers to automatically scale up and down virtual machines to accommodate unexpected spikes in demand. The rollout comes just a few months after Microsoft improved its Azure cloud service with new auto-scaling features. Both…
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One Microsoft bull urges consumers to take a pass, even at that price Microsoft on Sunday slashed prices on its Surface RT tablets by as much as 30%, with the entry-level 32GB model selling for $349. The 64GB Surface RT was also discounted by $150, and now sells for $449, or 25% off its former…
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QUESTION 1 You are employed as a network administrator at ABC.com. ABC.com has an Active Directory domain named ABC.com. All servers on the ABC.com network have Windows Server 2012 installed. ABC.com has a server, named ABC-SR07, which is configured as a DHCP server. You have created a superscope on ABC-SR07. Which of the following describes…