How Scale-out Converged Architectures Solve Data Protection and Storage Challenges

Date: Tuesday, May 21, 2019 Time: 02:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time Duration: 1 hour The amount of data we generate on a daily, and even hourly basis continues to grow. And not all data is created equally. Unstructured data is creating massive challeng
by via IT Pro - Microsoft Windows Information, Solutions, Tools

Google Cloud Migration: Lessons from the Frontlines

A gaming platform empowered engineers to be mindful of milestones over deadlines, and to evaluate and refresh their own technology stacks during a successful Google Cloud migration.
by Nicole Henderson via IT Pro - Microsoft Windows Information, Solutions, Tools

How Microsoft Teams is Driving User Adoption

Date: Tuesday, May 14, 2019 Time: 02:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time Duration: 1 hour Microsoft Teams is the ultimate gateway to all of the different apps and services for organizations that are new to the cloud. Not only does it integrate with the tool
by via IT Pro - Microsoft Windows Information, Solutions, Tools

The Benefits of Storage as a Service

The benefits of storage as a service are numerous, but STaaS isn't always what people think.
by Karen D. Schwartz via IT Pro - Microsoft Windows Information, Solutions, Tools

DFFS Rule reversing explained

Samsung Can Learn From Apple That Boring Beats Sexy

With the smartphone business becoming so lackluster, it’s tempting to try push the boundaries just to drum up excitement. But most users want a product that works, and don’t need one that excites.
by Bloomberg View via IT Pro - Microsoft Windows Information, Solutions, Tools

History of Container Technology Offers Lessons for Future

Many of the issues associated with container technology are due to infrastructure decisions made long before containers, cloud and the internet.
by Christine Hall via IT Pro - Microsoft Windows Information, Solutions, Tools

Microsoft Certification Paths for Azure and Microsoft 365 in 2019

As most of the followers of my blog are aware, Microsoft has completely revamped their certification paths starting in 2018, with the complete roll out starting in 2019. There is still some confusion out there in what are the different options available, what certs are available, and what are the prerequisites for each. There is some great documentation made by Microsoft out there, but it’s hard to find so I wanted to share it all out in a blog! None of those pictures were created by me, all of them are made by Microsoft, but hopefully this blog will make it a lot easier for you to find!

Apps and Infrastructure Azure Certifications Overview

Microsoft Certified Azure Fundamentals

PS : Check out my own Study Guide here as well : https://absolute-sharepoint.com/az-900-study-guide-microsoft-azure-fundamentals

Azure Administrator Associate

PS : Check out my own Study Guide here as well : https://absolute-sharepoint.com/az-103-study-guide-microsoft-azure-administrator

Azure Developer Associate

Azure DevOps Engineer Expert

Azure Solutions Architect Expert

Azure Data and AI Certifications Overview

Azure Data Scientist Associate

Azure Data Engineer Associate

Azure AI Engineer Associate

Microsoft 365 Certifications Overview

Modern Desktop Administrator Associate

Teamwork Administrator Associate

Messaging Administrator Associate

Security Administrator Associate

Enterprise Administrator Expert

This is it for the blog post, you can find the original source of the documents over here.

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Pentagon’s Designer of $10 Billion JEDI Cloud Is Stepping Down

The Pentagon official who developed a controversial $10 billion cloud-computing project is stepping down after four years of efforts to upgrade the Defense Department’s information technology systems.
by Bloomberg via IT Pro - Microsoft Windows Information, Solutions, Tools

Microsoft Workers Criticize Block of GitHub Protest in China

A vocal group of Microsoft Corp. employees is calling on the company to support a rare online protest from Chinese technology workers spawned on GitHub, the software code-sharing site Microsoft owns.
by Bloomberg via IT Pro - Microsoft Windows Information, Solutions, Tools

Why Samsung Had to Delay the Galaxy Foldable Phone

Problems with the Fold screen would be a dealbreaker all on their own. But the issues go deeper. As a phone, it’s not good enough.
by Bloomberg via IT Pro - Microsoft Windows Information, Solutions, Tools

Microsoft to Build Fifth, Massive Western US Azure Region

Site plans show at least two giant data center buildings on Microsoft-owned Arizona sites.
by Yevgeniy Sverdlik via IT Pro - Microsoft Windows Information, Solutions, Tools

Samsung to Delay Launch of Galaxy Fold Phone, WSJ Reports

The Galaxy Fold, priced at almost $2,000, was hit by early reviews that showed several problems with test versions of the device.
by Bloomberg via IT Pro - Microsoft Windows Information, Solutions, Tools

Creating Order out of 'CHAOS'

CHAOSSEARCH enables organizations to search and query cloud-based data without having to manually ingest and process different sources of data.
by Karen D. Schwartz via IT Pro - Microsoft Windows Information, Solutions, Tools

The Artificial Intelligence Stakes Are Getting Higher

The use of "AI anchors" represents the increasing infiltration of AI--and the complex considerations the technology mandates.
by Terri Coles via IT Pro - Microsoft Windows Information, Solutions, Tools

Mobile Innovation Is Stalled: Why That's a Good Thing

The decelerated state of mobile innovation is what we really want--and, in fact, need--today.
by Craig Mathias via IT Pro - Microsoft Windows Information, Solutions, Tools

Security Scar Tissue Can Make Organizations Smarter and Stronger

IT pros slammed again and again by security breaches can become desensitized--or they can gain strength from the experiences.
by Tom Henderson via IT Pro - Microsoft Windows Information, Solutions, Tools

Microsoft and Box Launch Outlook Plug-in for Hybrid Cloud Access

Microsoft's latest work to make your computing experience ubiquitous is an Outlook plug-in for Box to easily access your cloud files. Speaking of access -- the company also had a long, public reckoning with hackers accessing users' email. ALSO: a survey shows IT pros aren't worried about automation taking their jobs, Microsoft expanded their IoT portfolio with a new acquisition, shadow IT can be actively monitored with new Windows Defender ATP services and Microsoft announced their Surface Hub 2S.
by Lisa Schmeiser, Richard Hay via IT Pro - Microsoft Windows Information, Solutions, Tools

Four Soft Skills for a Successful Software Development Career

Learn which soft skills will help you get past the interview process and into the developer seat.
by Brein Matturro via IT Pro - Microsoft Windows Information, Solutions, Tools

Moving Toward a Password-less Authentication Future

Passwords may be around for a while, despite their inherent weaknesses, but work is underway to create a password-less authentication future.
by Jeffrey Burt via IT Pro - Microsoft Windows Information, Solutions, Tools

Information Architecture in the Modern World: Chasm One – Managing Content Types

Data Streaming Company Tackles Big Data Storage Challenges

Data streaming company PubNub turned to NoSQL--and third-party help--to meet constantly increasing data storage and security needs.
by Karen D. Schwartz via IT Pro - Microsoft Windows Information, Solutions, Tools

Defining Serverless at Container World

Serverless Summit, a pre-opening event at this year's Container World, indicated that serverless is a technology still finding its footing.
by Christine Hall via IT Pro - Microsoft Windows Information, Solutions, Tools

Driving Down the Operational Costs of Storage

Date: Tuesday, June 11, 2019 Time: 02:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time Duration: 1 hour When considering a major storage infrastructure change, companies need to consider the return on investment they're likely to see, taking into account infrastructure
by via IT Pro - Microsoft Windows Information, Solutions, Tools

What You Need to Know about Emotet Malware

Emotet malware is threatening businesses once again. Here's what you can do about it.
by Brien Posey via IT Pro - Microsoft Windows Information, Solutions, Tools

Advance Your Career with Artificial Intelligence (AI) Knowledge

IT Pros can expand their knowledge about AI to advance their careers by finding training which will be critical to a successful career move in this area.
by Richard Hay via IT Pro - Microsoft Windows Information, Solutions, Tools

IBM Falls Most Since October After Cloud Growth Disappoints

IBM reported a decline in revenue from the cloud-computing, artificial intelligence and cognitive software unit that the company is hanging its future on.
by Bloomberg via IT Pro - Microsoft Windows Information, Solutions, Tools

Data Streaming Company Has Big Data Storage Challenges

Data streaming company PubNub turned to NoSQL--and third-party help--to meet constantly increasing data storage and security needs.
by Karen D. Schwartz via IT Pro - Microsoft Windows Information, Solutions, Tools

Apple Puts Need for 5G Ahead of Legal Fight in Qualcomm Deal

Apple needs chips that will connect the iPhone to the new, fifth-generation wireless networks being introduced now or risk falling behind its rivals. The company had bet on Intel Corp., but recently decided its would-be 5G supplier wasn’t up to the task.
by Bloomberg via IT Pro - Microsoft Windows Information, Solutions, Tools

The California Consumer Privacy Act: Consumer Privacy Ripple Effect?

The California Consumer Privacy Act appears to be inspiring other states and instilling trepidation in tech firms.
by Terri Coles via IT Pro - Microsoft Windows Information, Solutions, Tools

Creating and Deploying a Custom Theme in SharePoint Online – Follow Up

Microsoft Backs Carbon Tax With Republican-Backed Climate Group

Microsoft Corp. is joining a climate advocacy group backed by big energy corporations and high-profile Republicans, an effort by the software giant to find middle ground on environmental issues that have polarized U.S. politics.
by Bloomberg via IT Pro - Microsoft Windows Information, Solutions, Tools

Microsoft-Backed Sales Software Maker Outreach Becomes a Unicorn

Outreach Inc., a software maker that helps to automate essential, but mundane work for salespeople, crossed the billion-dollar valuation threshold. Outreach will use the new investment to make sure it can integrate with all communication channels, bolster its engineering efforts and expand internationally.
by Bloomberg via IT Pro - Microsoft Windows Information, Solutions, Tools

The AI Impact on Business

The AI impact on business is big and getting bigger as artificial intelligence transforms every industrial sector.
by Terri Coles via IT Pro - Microsoft Windows Information, Solutions, Tools

Tractica Report: Natural Language Processing for the Enterprise

The ultimate promise of NLP technology is intent-based computing enabling humans to use common everyday language to complete a broad range of tasks.
by Mark Beccue, Aditya Kaul via IT Pro - Microsoft Windows Information, Solutions, Tools

There's Lots of Talk about Conversational AI

Recent moves by Microsoft, Amazon and others point to the growing importance of conversational AI.
by Terri Coles via IT Pro - Microsoft Windows Information, Solutions, Tools

Facing the Cybersecurity Skills Gap

Among other efforts to close the cybersecurity skills gap, organizations are looking to bring more women and other under-represented populations into the field.
by Jeffrey Burt via IT Pro - Microsoft Windows Information, Solutions, Tools

10 Things You Should Know about Microsoft Azure DevOps Server

Azure DevOps Server helps facilitate cross-functional software development and deployment.
by Tim Ford via IT Pro - Microsoft Windows Information, Solutions, Tools

Microsoft Bug Bounty Programs Underscore Commitment to Open Source

It’s important for Microsoft to get this right, and it's on the right path with bug bounty programs like the one in place for Azure DevOps Server.
by Tim Ford via IT Pro - Microsoft Windows Information, Solutions, Tools

How to Detect Cryptomining in your Environment

Date: Thursday, May 16, 2019 Time: 02:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time Duration: 1 hour Cryptominers are built to turn computing power into revenue. To make cryptomining a profitable venture, cyber criminals are writing and distributing malware to steal
by via IT Pro - Microsoft Windows Information, Solutions, Tools

Wave of New Tech Firms Targeting Farms as Weather Wars Mount

Investments in agriculture technology companies are growing, hitting $6.7 billion in the last five years, and the number of venture capital deals are increasing, according to Finistere Ventures, a San Diego-based venture capital firm. Through October 2018, there were 28 deals globally for companies making sensors and smart farm equipment, and 19 for imagery companies.
by Bloomberg via IT Pro - Microsoft Windows Information, Solutions, Tools

How and Why to use an Account Name or an Email Address as a Username when using ExCM

Google’s New Security Features Don’t Care Whose Data Center You’re In

The company extends its security capabilities beyond services running in its own cloud.
by Maria Korolov via IT Pro - Microsoft Windows Information, Solutions, Tools

Win a free Pass to SharePoint Fest DC 2019

I have been blogging about learning resources for a while and one of the best ways to learn from the experts is to attend in person conferences! Since Valo Intranet is sponsoring, we have a pass to give away! To enter you simply must put your name and email (They will not be shared with any 3rd parties), and you can get bonus entries if you follow @vladcatrinescu on Twitter and like the Absolute SharePoint page on Facebook! Furthermore, you can tweet about the giveaway every day and get 5 bonus entries for every time you tweet!

The prize only includes the conference pass and not any travel costs or anything else. Just the conference pass! Here is a small paragraph about the conference

SharePoint Fest brings to you the world’s leading experts in SharePoint, Office 365, Microsoft Teams and Azure. Whether you are new to SharePoint or an experienced power user, admin or developer, SharePoint Fest has content designed to fit your experience level and area of interest. Our workshops and sessions are taught by Microsoft Certified Trainers, Microsoft MVPs, Microsoft Regional Directors and Microsoft engineers.

Good Luck, and if you are at SharePoint Fest DC, make sure to visit me at the Valo Booth to say hello :)!

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Don’t Hide the #SharePoint Search Box!

No Code #SharePoint Solutions : “I want to display a Like option”

Nominees for the Harmon.ie #Top25 SharePoint Influencers 2019

Copy the list definition to a file when filing a DFFS support request

The code snippet linked below is used to dump all the list fields to a file to enable me to recreate the list when investigating a possible bug in DFFS.

How to use the snippet

Go to the DFFS enabled list you want to copy, and change the URL from …/Lists/ExampleListName/ExampleViewName.aspx to …/Lists/
ExampleListName /NewForm.aspx.

Hit F12 to bring up the developer console and paste the code directly in the console and hit Enter.

This will download the field definition as a file that you can email to me or attach in a forum post.

The file only contains the name and description of the fields, and choices in a choice field so there should not be any compromising information in the file.

Get the code snippet

Get the file her

by Alexander Bautz via SharePoint JavaScripts

AI, 5G and IoT in Health Care: Evolution or Revolution?

The promises for technologies like IoT in health care are great, but realizing them, however, demands a thorough understanding of the health care ecosystem.
by Brian Buntz via IT Pro - Microsoft Windows Information, Solutions, Tools

Google Cloud Next 19 Wrap-Up

ITPro Today was at Google Cloud Next this week in San Francisco, where the company launched a string of new services while adding features to existing ones. In this video, we hit the show floor and run through some of the announcements. 
by Nicole Henderson via IT Pro - Microsoft Windows Information, Solutions, Tools

Enterprise Security Woes: Staffing Problems, Lack of Planning

IBM's fourth annual cybersecurity survey shows that organizations aren't spending on the people or processes they need, despite rising financial stakes. Also this week: Microsoft brings improved collaboration to the nonprofit sector; the Algorithmic Accountability Act takes aim at AI bias; and blockchain makes your lettuce safe.
by Lisa Schmeiser, Richard Hay via IT Pro - Microsoft Windows Information, Solutions, Tools

Google Cloud Next Highlights Security Advances

The security advances reflect key areas for enterprises.
by Karen D. Schwartz via IT Pro - Microsoft Windows Information, Solutions, Tools

How and When to Use Cloud-Native Technology

Successful enterprise organizations must evaluate ways in which they can improve time to market and meet customer demand -- end goals that often require adopting new technology, new processes, or both. Anyone who has been through digital transformati
by Nicole Henderson via IT Pro - Microsoft Windows Information, Solutions, Tools

Best Practices for Office 365 Security Monitoring

For many organizations, Office 365 marks an entry point into cloud computing—and with it, cloud security. As organizations migrate sensitive and business-critical data to the Microsoft cloud, many security concerns arise: Is our data secure? Who has
by via IT Pro - Microsoft Windows Information, Solutions, Tools

The Practitioner’s Guide to Security Monitoring in the Cloud

Date: Tuesday, April 30, 2019 Time: 02:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time Duration: 1 hour Cloud computing continues to transform the way organizations use, store, and share data, applications, and workloads, but has also introduced a host of new security
by via IT Pro - Microsoft Windows Information, Solutions, Tools

Case Study: NetLib Security Encryptionizer Helps MIMICS gain competitive advantage in the Financial Sector

Since 1976, MIMICS, a financial software firm, has been providing its customers across the vertical with a variety of solutions designed to enhance their operations.  Today, this includes more than fifty products used by banks, insurance compani
by via IT Pro - Microsoft Windows Information, Solutions, Tools

Meet the Speaker series: Jill Hannemann

Last December, I was talking to Lyman from the SharePoint Conference organizing team about cool ideas to do before the SharePoint Conference in May! One of the ideas I had that I thought would be awesome is a series of videos with the speakers from the SharePoint Conference that allows everyone from the community to learn a bit more about them, of course focused a bit about SharePoint. As I already interviewed over 20 speakers, it’s very interesting to learn how everyone got into SharePoint, from nuclear engineers, to hardcore developers that now only do no-code solutions! I will release two interviews per week for the next two months (or more if you guys like it!)!

12th video in the series is the awesome Jill Hannemann from Seattle!

Meet Jill Hannemann

Where to find Jill

You can find Jill on Twitter at https://twitter.com/ImJillHannemann and his site at https://digital.withum.com/blog/author/jill-hannemann

Are you coming to the SharePoint Conference?

Stay Connected to the Largest SharePoint Conference in the Industry! Register now with the following link and save 50$ by using code VLAD at check out!

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South Africa Microsoft Data Centres Update

Google Announces 'Ice Cold Storage'

Google’s approach to ice cold storage eliminates the need for a separate retrieval process and provides immediate, low-latency access to content.
by Karen D. Schwartz via IT Pro - Microsoft Windows Information, Solutions, Tools

Storage Vendors Race to Share in the Google Next '19 Spotlight

Storage vendors are aligning new releases with products and services being unveiled at Google Cloud Next ’19.
by Karen D. Schwartz via IT Pro - Microsoft Windows Information, Solutions, Tools

Thousands of Amazon Workers Are Listening to What You Tell Alexa

Amazon.com Inc. employs thousands of people around the world to help improve the Alexa digital assistant powering its line of Echo speakers. The team listens to voice recordings captured in Echo owners’ homes and offices. The recordings are transcribed, annotated and then fed back into the software as part of an effort to eliminate gaps in Alexa’s understanding of human speech and help it better respond to commands. 
by Bloomberg via IT Pro - Microsoft Windows Information, Solutions, Tools

Creating and Deploying a Custom Theme in SharePoint Online

Facebook Expanding Efforts to Block False Information

Facebook Inc. said it’s rolling out a slew of new and expanded ways to rein in the spread of misinformation across its websites and apps, amid heightened global scrutiny of social networks’ actions to reduce false and violent content.
by Bloomberg via IT Pro - Microsoft Windows Information, Solutions, Tools

Amazon-Microsoft Face-Off Set for Pentagon's $10 Billion Cloud

Amazon.com Inc. and Microsoft Corp. are the last competitors standing in the Pentagon’s winner-take-all competition for a $10 billion cloud services contract, the Defense Department said. The announcement eliminates Oracle Corp. and International Business Machines Corp. from the running.
by Bloomberg via IT Pro - Microsoft Windows Information, Solutions, Tools

Google Launches Cloud Code IDE Plugins for Building Cloud-Native Apps

Despite not being an actual cloud-based IDE, Cloud Code makes it easier than before for developers to write code with the help of Google Cloud.
by Christopher Tozzi via IT Pro - Microsoft Windows Information, Solutions, Tools

Docker Platform Outlook: Anusha Ragunathan Talks Containers

Docker software engineer Anusha Ragunathan talks about what the year ahead holds in store for the Docker platform and container technology.
by Christine Hall, Maria McSorley via IT Pro - Microsoft Windows Information, Solutions, Tools

Kubernetes in Action: What It Does (and Doesn't) Do

Read on to get the most out of what Kubernetes can do--and ensure you don't assume it is going to handle a task that it can't support.
by Christopher Tozzi via IT Pro - Microsoft Windows Information, Solutions, Tools

Windows 10 (20H1) Build Tracker for PCs

We track the history of the development builds released for the 20H1 feature update for Windows 10 which is scheduled for release in the March/April 2020 time frame.
by Richard Hay via IT Pro - Microsoft Windows Information, Solutions, Tools

Google Flips the Switch on Its Next Big Money Maker: Maps

The search business is still immensely profitable and growing, but that can’t last forever. So Google is increasing the ways advertisers can reach Maps users, while raising prices for some businesses that use the underlying technology.
by Bloomberg via IT Pro - Microsoft Windows Information, Solutions, Tools

Hyperconverged Infrastructure Earns Enterprise Trust for Critical Use

Studies by Evaluator Group have tracked enterprise use of hyperconverged infrastructure for three years; the latest results suggest the technology has crossed a threshold of acceptance.
by Eric Slack via IT Pro - Microsoft Windows Information, Solutions, Tools

Facebook Found to Host Cybercriminal Groups Trading Stolen Info

Facebook Inc. housed dozens of cybercriminal groups that set up shop on the platform as online marketplaces to sell a variety of illegal services, such as stolen credit card information, account theft and spamming tools, a team of researchers found.
by Bloomberg via IT Pro - Microsoft Windows Information, Solutions, Tools

G Suites' Core App GMail Launched 15 Years Ago, Changing Google

The cloud-based email service has become the core element of Google's G Suite productivity suite, and although it still lags behind competitors for key features, its importance at Google will likely remain unchanged. ALSO: Microsoft continues to push computing out to the edge with new IoT partnerships, Amazon Web Services is expanding in South America and Microsoft also wants to teach students about AI.
by Lisa Schmeiser, Richard Hay via IT Pro - Microsoft Windows Information, Solutions, Tools

Microsoft Vows to Focus on Gender Harassment Amid Uproar

Microsoft Corp.’s top executives pledged to discuss diversity and harassment issues at monthly employee meetings after complaints about sexual misconduct and discrimination against women erupted in a 90-page email thread at the software maker.
by Bloomberg via IT Pro - Microsoft Windows Information, Solutions, Tools

Google Scraps New AI Ethics Council After Staff, Outside Protest

“It’s become clear that in the current environment, ATEAC can’t function as we wanted,” Google said Thursday in a statement. “So we’re ending the council and going back to the drawing board. We’ll continue to be responsible in our work on the important issues that AI raises, and will find different ways of getting outside opinions on these topics.”
by Bloomberg via IT Pro - Microsoft Windows Information, Solutions, Tools

Hannover Messe Provides Preview of Industrial AR’s Promise

Augmented reality was a star of Hannover Messe. But adoption of industrial AR will likely be first limited to defined use cases.
by Brian Buntz via IT Pro - Microsoft Windows Information, Solutions, Tools

5 Questions with Google Cloud Director of Learning Rochana Golani

Google cloud certifications offer IT pros the ability to prepare for the evolving job market, director, Google Cloud Learning and Enablement, Rochana Golani says.
by Nicole Henderson via IT Pro - Microsoft Windows Information, Solutions, Tools

Amazon Cloud Storage Dilemma Exposed in Facebook's Latest Leak

The trove in question included 540 million pieces of information, such as identification numbers, comments, reactions and account names, that had been culled from Facebook pages and stored on Amazon servers by Mexico City-based digital platform Cultura Colectiva.
by via IT Pro - Microsoft Windows Information, Solutions, Tools

How Twitter Shrunk Its Hadoop Clusters and Their Energy Consumption

Rearchitecting Hadoop clusters to remove a storage bottleneck opened doors for more improvements.
by Yevgeniy Sverdlik via IT Pro - Microsoft Windows Information, Solutions, Tools

How Comcast Empowers Developers with Open Source

IT leadership from Comcast spoke at Cloud Foundry North America Summit this week about its shift to embrace open source technologies.
by Nicole Henderson via IT Pro - Microsoft Windows Information, Solutions, Tools

Too Hot to Handle? How and Where to Store Hot Data

Laz Vekiarides, CTO and founder of ClearSky, discusses the unique needs that come with storing and accessing hot data.
by Karen D. Schwartz via IT Pro - Microsoft Windows Information, Solutions, Tools

Practical tips for cloud data protection and security planning with Veeam

Date: Thursday, April 25, 2019 Time: 12:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time Duration: 1 hour It’s no secret that businesses are turning to the cloud to run their most critical operations. Data, services, and applications are being moved at a dizzying rate a
by via IT Pro - Microsoft Windows Information, Solutions, Tools

Amazon Schooled on AI Facial Tech By Turing Award Winner

Amazon.com Inc.’s facial-recognition software is coming under fire again, this time from a group of artificial intelligence researchers that includes one of the field’s most prominent scientists.
by Bloomberg via IT Pro - Microsoft Windows Information, Solutions, Tools

Azure DevOps (VSTS) - The current operating system is not capable of running this task, with "Azure File Copy"

During daily operations and work in Azure DevOps, one of the many things I'm doing is building Docker images and doing related tasks. Since I run everything on Linux, and the Hosted Ubuntu linux agent is ridiculously fast, I'm using that for all my tasks in my pipelines.

Unfortunately, if you want to use the Azure File Copy task, you're out of luck. It is not supported on Linux currently (but should be eventually). You might end up with this error:

The current operating system is not capable of running this task. That typically means the task was written for Windows only. For example, written for Windows Desktop PowerShell.

So that's that. Either I go back to a Windows agent for this/these specific tasks,

... Read the full post on https://zimmergren.net/azure-devops-vsts-current-operating-system-not-capable-of-running-this-task-linux/

by Tobias Zimmergren via Zimmergren

Google Embraces Multi-Cloud Clusters that Can Run Anywhere ... Even AWS

Anthos is an open platform that lets you run an app anywhere, without needing to modify the code, on existing on-premises hardware or in the public cloud.
by Nicole Henderson via IT Pro - Microsoft Windows Information, Solutions, Tools

Kubernetes in Action: What It Does (and Doesn't) Do

Read on to get the most out of what Kubernetes can do--and ensure you don't assume it is going to handle a task that it can't support.
by Christopher Tozzi via IT Pro - Microsoft Windows Information, Solutions, Tools

Google Cloud Platform to Add Regions in Salt Lake City, Seoul

At Google Cloud Next, Google said that it spent $47 billion dollars between 2016 and 2018 building its cloud infrastructure.
by Christine Hall via IT Pro - Microsoft Windows Information, Solutions, Tools

Case Study: NetLib Security Encryptionizer Helps MIMICS gain competitive advantage in the Financial Sector

Since 1976, MIMICS, a financial software firm, has been providing its customers across the vertical with a variety of solutions designed to enhance their operations.  Today, this includes more than fifty products used by banks, insurance compani
by via IT Pro - Microsoft Windows Information, Solutions, Tools

Back-filling SharePoint News with Sharegate

Real-World 5G Rollout Sees Early Stumbles

An early 5G rollout experienced technology-specific difficulties that may make a nationwide rollout difficult.
by Paul Heltzel via IT Pro - Microsoft Windows Information, Solutions, Tools

Nutanix, HPE Partner on Private Cloud Service and Hyperconverged Appliances

HPE GreenLake will offer a pay-as-you-go private cloud service that runs on Nutanix’s Enterprise Cloud OS software.
by Wylie Wong via IT Pro - Microsoft Windows Information, Solutions, Tools

Google Wants to Make it Easier to Use Open Source Databases

Google wants enterprises to experience a native approach to open source databases on GCP, with no muss, no fuss billing and support.
by Nicole Henderson via IT Pro - Microsoft Windows Information, Solutions, Tools

Slack Adds Tighter Integration with Microsoft's Office 365

“We’re going to be all about bringing your core office productivity into Slack,” said Ellie Powers, Director of Product and Platform at Slack. “What we’re doing is being really focused on bringing to Slack the ability to integrate more deeply with Microsoft products.”
by Lisa Schmeiser via IT Pro - Microsoft Windows Information, Solutions, Tools

Meet the Speaker series: Asif Rehmani

Last December, I was talking to Lyman from the SharePoint Conference organizing team about cool ideas to do before the SharePoint Conference in May! One of the ideas I had that I thought would be awesome is a series of videos with the speakers from the SharePoint Conference that allows everyone from the community to learn a bit more about them, of course focused a bit about SharePoint. As I already interviewed over 20 speakers, it’s very interesting to learn how everyone got into SharePoint, from nuclear engineers, to hardcore developers that now only do no-code solutions! I will release two interviews per week for the next two months (or more if you guys like it!)!

11th video in the series is the awesome Asif Rehmani from Chicago!

Meet Asif Rehmani

Where to find Asif

You can find Asif on Twitter at https://twitter.com/asifrehmani and his site at https://www.visualsp.com/

Are you coming to the SharePoint Conference?

Stay Connected to the Largest SharePoint Conference in the Industry! Register now with the following link and save 50$ by using code VLAD at check out!

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Windows 10 (19H1) Build Tracker for PCs

We track the history of the development builds released for the 19H1 Feature Update for Windows 10 which will be the seventh overall for Microsoft's client operating system.
by Richard Hay via IT Pro - Microsoft Windows Information, Solutions, Tools

Windows 10 19H1 Software Development Kit (SDK) Build Tracker

Microsoft is already working on the seventh feature update for Windows 10, code named 19H1, which is expected to be released in the March/April 2019 time frame. Alongside that process, they also have begun work on the next SDK that will give developers early access to the new tools and capabilities in this upcoming feature update.
by Richard Hay via IT Pro - Microsoft Windows Information, Solutions, Tools

Microsoft Edge Chromium Browser Available for Testing

Microsoft takes another step in their continuing trend of delivering products and services aimed at a heterogeneous enterprise. This time it is Microsoft Edge Chromium breaking out of the Windows 10 OS.
by Richard Hay via IT Pro - Microsoft Windows Information, Solutions, Tools

12 SharePoint and Teams Integration Points Infographic and Webinar

 

Download the infographic and share and use it how you’d like…

 

SharePoint and Teams are Better Together: Here are 12 Ways…

1. Add your SharePoint Pages to Teams
   
2. Documents added to Teams are automatically stored in SharePoint and OneDrive
   
3. SharePoint enabled coauthoring protols in Office with SharePoint backed documents work in the Teams UX
   
4. Teams presence and chat is even better with Office 365 and SharePoint.
   
5. Automatically post your documents to Channels with Flow
   
6. Easily add SharePoint sites to Teams or Create Teams for your SharePoint sites
   
7. Use the Bots in Teams to call your SharePoint sites and lists data with the Bot Framework
   
8. Preview 270+ file formats in OneDrive and SharePoint directly in Teams UX
   
9. Synchronize your SharePoint and OneDrive documents and access them in Explorer for files you add with the Teams interface
   
10. Teams information will be accessible in SharePoint. Chat is already getting better and better.
    
11. Access SharePoint News in a Tab or in automatically in a channel
    
12. SPFx isn’t just for SharePoint anymore. Write SharePoint Framework parts for Teams
    

Join us for the Microsoft Teams and SharePoint Better Together Webinar

Teams and SharePoint Better Together!

Description: Teams and SharePoint are transforming the enterprise. SharePoint has never been the same since the launch of Teams. There are now better ways to work with SharePoint and it’s getting better. When combined, Teams and SharePoint are unstoppable. In this session, we are covering the rich integration between the two. There’s great chemistry…

Tuesday 16th April 2 PM Eastern / 11 AM Pacific / 6 PM GMT

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“Am I on the Right Track? #SharePoint

Internal Google Panel to Vet AI Projects Packed With Executives

Google has been at the center of a widening public debate over how automated systems might disadvantage vulnerable groups or lead to large-scale job losses, and whether AI should be incorporated into weaponry. 
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xMatters Incident Management Tool Adds Stackdriver Integration

xMatters' integration with Google Cloud Stackdriver automates incident management for DevOps.
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Defining Digital Transformation at Cloud Foundry Summit

ITPro Today was in Philadelphia this week to attend the Cloud Foundry North American Summit. In this video, we take you on the show floor and seek out answers for what digital transformation means.
by Nicole Henderson via IT Pro - Microsoft Windows Information, Solutions, Tools

G Suites' Core App GMail Launched 15 Years Ago, Changing Google

The cloud-based email service has become the core element of Google's G Suite productivity suite, and although it still lags behind competitors for key features, its importance at Google will likely remain unchanged. ALSO: Microsoft continues to push computing out to the edge with new IoT partnerships, Amazon Web Services is expanding in South America and Microsoft also wants to teach students about AI.
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Fertility Database Relies on Blockchain for Security

FRTYL is trying to put families' minds at ease through the use of blockchain for security.
by Karen D. Schwartz via IT Pro - Microsoft Windows Information, Solutions, Tools

Facebook Found to Host Cybercriminal Groups Trading Stolen Info

Facebook Inc. housed dozens of cybercriminal groups that set up shop on the platform as online marketplaces to sell a variety of illegal services, such as stolen credit card information, account theft and spamming tools, a team of researchers found.
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5 Questions with Google Cloud Director of Learning Rochana Golani

Google cloud certifications offer IT pros the ability to prepare for the evolving job market, director, Google Cloud Learning and Enablement, Rochana Golani says.
by Nicole Henderson via IT Pro - Microsoft Windows Information, Solutions, Tools

Microsoft Vows to Focus on Gender Harassment Amid Uproar

Microsoft Corp.’s top executives pledged to discuss diversity and harassment issues at monthly employee meetings after complaints about sexual misconduct and discrimination against women erupted in a 90-page email thread at the software maker.
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Google Scraps New AI Ethics Council After Staff, Outside Protest

“It’s become clear that in the current environment, ATEAC can’t function as we wanted,” Google said Thursday in a statement. “So we’re ending the council and going back to the drawing board. We’ll continue to be responsible in our work on the important issues that AI raises, and will find different ways of getting outside opinions on these topics.”
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Hannover Messe Provides Preview of Industrial AR’s Promise

Augmented reality was a star of Hannover Messe. But adoption of industrial AR will likely be first limited to defined use cases.
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Meet the Speaker series: Daniel Christian

Last December, I was talking to Lyman from the SharePoint Conference organizing team about cool ideas to do before the SharePoint Conference in May! One of the ideas I had that I thought would be awesome is a series of videos with the speakers from the SharePoint Conference that allows everyone from the community to learn a bit more about them, of course focused a bit about SharePoint. As I already interviewed over 20 speakers, it’s very interesting to learn how everyone got into SharePoint, from nuclear engineers, to hardcore developers that now only do no-code solutions! I will release two interviews per week for the next two months (or more if you guys like it!)!

Tenth video in the series is the awesome Daniel Christian from North Carolina!

Meet Daniel Christian

Where to find Daniel

You can find Daniel on Twitter at https://twitter.com/dchristian19 and his Youtube Channel  at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2v4TcvO4rdDdfqd6rUR5yg

Are you coming to the SharePoint Conference?

Stay Connected to the Largest SharePoint Conference in the Industry! Register now with the following link and save 50$ by using code VLAD at check out!

https://spvlad.com/SPC2019 

 

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How Comcast Empowers Developers with Open Source

IT leadership from Comcast spoke at Cloud Foundry North America Summit this week about its shift to embrace open source technologies.
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Amazon Cloud Storage Dilemma Exposed in Facebook's Latest Leak

The trove in question included 540 million pieces of information, such as identification numbers, comments, reactions and account names, that had been culled from Facebook pages and stored on Amazon servers by Mexico City-based digital platform Cultura Colectiva.
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How Twitter Shrunk Its Hadoop Clusters and Their Energy Consumption

Rearchitecting Hadoop clusters to remove a storage bottleneck opened doors for more improvements.
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2018 Technology Salary Survey -- Data Center

Skills Shortage Puts A Damper On Data Center Growth
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Find a user’s OneDrive for Business site URL with PowerShell

While working on an offboarding script, one of the requirements was to send an e-mail to the manager with the OneDrive for Business URL of the user that was going to get disabled. There is quite some information on the internet on how to get this with CSOM, but not a lot in how to get it with PowerShell for IT Pros like me … we prefer PowerShell cmdlets to code! While this is not available in the default SharePoint Online Module ,we can use the PnP PowerShell cmdlets to do it!

The first thing you must do is to get your credential and use the Connect-PnPOnline cmdlet to connect to your SharePoint Online Admin Center!

$cred = Get-Credential
Connect-PnPOnline -Url https://<tenant>-admin.sharepoint.com/ -Credentials $cred

You can then run the Get-PnPUserProfileProperty cmdlet to get the information about the user’s profile and select only the PersonalUrl which is the URL of that user’s OneDrive for Business!

$username = "<UserName>"
$OneDriveUrl = Get-PnPUserProfileProperty -Account $username | select PersonalUrl

That’s it! Once you know the right cmdlets to use, it’s that simple!

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Too Hot to Handle? How and Where to Store Hot Data

Laz Vekiarides, CTO and founder of ClearSky, discusses the unique needs that come with storing and accessing hot data.
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Practical tips for cloud data protection and security planning with Veeam

Date: Thursday, April 25, 2019 Time: 12:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time Duration: 1 hour It’s no secret that businesses are turning to the cloud to run their critical business applications as well as to store and manage business-critical data. But what
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Amazon Schooled on AI Facial Tech By Turing Award Winner

Amazon.com Inc.’s facial-recognition software is coming under fire again, this time from a group of artificial intelligence researchers that includes one of the field’s most prominent scientists.
by Bloomberg via IT Pro - Microsoft Windows Information, Solutions, Tools

Meet the Speaker series: Liam Cleary

Last December, I was talking to Lyman from the SharePoint Conference organizing team about cool ideas to do before the SharePoint Conference in May! One of the ideas I had that I thought would be awesome is a series of videos with the speakers from the SharePoint Conference that allows everyone from the community to learn a bit more about them, of course focused a bit about SharePoint. As I already interviewed over 20 speakers, it’s very interesting to learn how everyone got into SharePoint, from nuclear engineers, to hardcore developers that now only do no-code solutions! I will release two interviews per week for the next two months (or more if you guys like it!)!

Ninth video in the series is the awesome Liam Cleary from Virginia!

Meet Liam Cleary

Where to find Liam

You can find Liam on Twitter at https://twitter.com/helloitsliam and his site at https://www.helloitsliam.com/

Are you coming to the SharePoint Conference?

Stay Connected to the Largest SharePoint Conference in the Industry! Register now with the following link and save 50$ by using code VLAD at check out!

https://spvlad.com/SPC2019 

 

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Google to Require Contractors Get Health Care, Parental Leave

Google will require contracting companies it does business with to give employees health care, parental leave and other benefits. The decision comes after months of activism from Google staff and contractors asking for equal treatment.
by Bloomberg via IT Pro - Microsoft Windows Information, Solutions, Tools

IBM Moves Midrange Storage Along with Faster, Cheaper Upgrades

The new midrange storage models support NVMe, an increasingly important standard specifically designed for solid state storage.
by Karen D. Schwartz via IT Pro - Microsoft Windows Information, Solutions, Tools

SmartNICs are Complicated, So Intel Pitches NICs That are Smart Enough

Ethernet 800 Series NICs can be tweaked to adjust to workload requirements, and it doesn’t take a PhD.
by Mary Branscombe via IT Pro - Microsoft Windows Information, Solutions, Tools

DFFS Package updated to v4.4.3.65

I have fixed a few small bugs – you find the change log here, and the updated files in the download section of the user manual.

PS: The date on the zip file is 2019-03-31 – I just didn’t find time to publish it until now.

Post comments below, but use the form if you have questions or you think you have found a bug.

Best regards,
Alexander

by Alexander Bautz via SharePoint JavaScripts

Data Management Startup Segment Now Has a $1.5 Billion Valuation

Segment helps companies provide better support and service by combining together all the different ways a company might collect data on a customer.
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What To Know When Migrating Extranet Collaboration Manager (ExCM)

With SharePoint 2019 on the horizon, you may be considering upgrading. If you are using ExCM for your extranet needs, then you may wonder about the process and how involved it is. Hopefully, with the help of this guide, you will see that the ExCM migration may be the easiest part of your upgrade! If you are still leery, contact us about our migration assistance package and let us walk you through migrating ExCM.

Whether you are going to follow Microsoft’s detach/attach method for migrating, or you will be using a tool such as Metalogix or Sharegate, the process is mostly the same… there are just a few extra steps with Microsoft’s path.

The first step of your migration is to build out your new SharePoint environment. When building the new environment, you will use the same web app name, URL, database name, role and role provider, etc. Basically the same structure, just a different version of SharePoint. While you will have the same names, the content will be empty. For example; If you have an extranet at https://ift.tt/2UeElt1, the page will still exist, but there will not be any subsites or content on the site. At this point, you should be able to browse out to the root site collection and a page should load.

When you have the new version of SharePoint installed and looking like your old SharePoint environment, The next step is to install the correct version of ExCM in your new environment. Once installed, configure ExCM with the same settings as your previous version. If your new environment is using a new SQL server, name the database created during the setup Wizard the same as the old database. This way, once you have tested the installation of ExCM, you can simply delete this blank database and migrate the previous database containing all your extranet users over.

If you are not using a new SQL database, you will need to name your database something similar to the original database name (ex. Instead of ExtranetDirectory you may use ExtranetDirectory1) This way, once you have tested your new environment to ensure the install was a success, you can delete the ExtranetDirectory1 database and change your web.config file so that all references to ExtranetDirectory1 now point to ExtranetDirectory.

We have had many customers that have migrated from 2010 or 2013 to 2016 and whether they are using the detach/ attach method or a migration tool the biggest issue we have seen them run into seems to be an issue with the transfer of registration fields from the old ExCM to the new ExCM. This can be caused by having the wrong settings in the migration tool that prevent the content database from fully transferring the correct data. Whatever the reason the fix is pretty easy. After transferring the content data to your new ExCM environment you can delete the registration and then recreate it.

To help lead you in the right direction we have provided a couple of links to PremierPoint Solutions documentation on migrating from SharePoint 2010 to 2013 and SharePoint 2013 to 2016.

The primary thing to remember when migrating is to have a plan laid out and always make backups when possible.

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Cloud Foundry Report Assesses State of Digital Transformation

To reap the benefits of digital transformation, enterprises need to embrace a state of constant change, Cloud Foundry said.
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Display the Flow button in SharePoint 2019 modern lists and libraries

One of the major advantages of setting up a hybrid SharePoint 2019 environment is that you can use the latest and greatest tools of Office 365, even for your On-Premises environment. One of those tools is Microsoft Flow, and by setting up your environment correctly, you can now have triggers and actions in Flow, on your On-Premises lists and libraries!

However, one of the things that is available in SharePoint Online, but not in SharePoint 2019 is having a button in each list and library that allows you to go to Microsoft Flow, or even create a quick Flow directly in SharePoint so you can quickly automate business processes. This can confuse users and make it difficult for them to know where to go and what tools to use. But there is hope!

One of my good friends, SharePoint MVPs and co-author of Deploying SharePoint 2019 Trevor Seward, just released a new open-source app called SharePoint 2019 Flow Extension which bridges some of the gap. As the description says, it provides a Flow button in the command bar as you can see in the screenshot below!

You can get the solution and instructions on Trevor’s GitHub over here: https://github.com/Nauplius/SharePoint-2019-Flow-Extension !

PS: If you want to learn how to configure the Data Gateway for using Flow on SharePoint Server 2019, make sure to check out the book by Trevor and myself titled Deploying SharePoint 2019 !

Leave a comment and don’t forget to like the Absolute SharePoint Blog Page   on Facebook and to follow me on Twitter here  for the latest news and technical articles on SharePoint.  I am also a Pluralsight author, and you can view all the courses I created on my author page.

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Google AI Ethics Council Is Falling Apart After a Week

Google recently appointed an external ethics council to deal with tricky issues in artificial intelligence. In less than a week, the council is already falling apart, a development that may jeopardize Google’s chance of winning more military cloud-computing contracts.
by Bloomberg via IT Pro - Microsoft Windows Information, Solutions, Tools

Beginner’s Guide to Open Source Intrusion Detection Tools

Discover the Various Open Source IDS Tools Available to You This white paper provides an overview of Open Source IDS and the various IDS tools available today. Whether you need to monitor hosts or the networks connecting them to identify the latest t
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Open Source Network Security Tools for Beginners

With so many open source tools available to help with network security, it can be tricky to figure out where to start, especially if you are an IT generalist who has been tasked with security. In this white paper, we'll provide an overview of some o
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Testing Liquid Cooling for Azure Data Centers, Microsoft Says It's Not Ready to Dive In

The company’s engineers say a mature solution is still some years away.
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A Short Guide to Choosing an IoT Development Platform

The paradox about choosing an IoT development platform is that picking the right one can facilitate your project, but the choice can be incredibly difficult.
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Hyperscalers Support Hybrid Cloud Architecture On-Premises

With Google releasing its Cloud Services Platform (CSP) in beta recently, all three hyperscale cloud vendors have an option for enterprises to standup cloud services on-premises to take advantage of a hybrid cloud architecture.
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