MacKBlog
This blog is to provide useful information to my customers in the Mid-Atlantic Region.
New Blog Location
Considering my role as a Microsoft Cloud Seller, I thought it would make sense to move my blog over...
Date: 04/30/2015
Cloud Platform Release Announcements
More Microsoft Cloud announcements came out last week. I can't keep up with all this goodness!!...
Date: 03/30/2015
Built-in mobile device management now generally available for Office 365 commercial plans
We announced a few months ago that we were adding MDM capabilities to Office 365 as an added value...
Date: 03/30/2015
Cloud Platform Release Announcements for March
As per usual, Microsoft has released a slew of updates for our cloud services. You can find the...
Date: 03/28/2015
Announcing the Preview of Disaster Recovery for VMware Virtual Machines and Physical Servers to Azure using ASR
Holy cow! Bet you didn't see this coming! Who's up for saving a ton of money by using Azure...
Date: 03/26/2015
Announcing Azure App Service
Microsoft has released Azure App Service, a new cloud service that lets developers build web and...
Date: 03/25/2015
Azure AD Connect Preview 2 is available
The next preview release of Azure AD Connect is out and available. If you don't know what that...
Date: 03/25/2015
Announcing the Office 2016 IT Pro and Developer Preview
Microsoft is pleased to announce that the Preview of Office 2016 is now available for download and...
Date: 03/16/2015
Free ebook: Rethinking Enterprise Storage: A Hybrid Cloud Model
Microsoft is pleased to announce the availability of Rethinking Enterprise Storage: A Hybrid Cloud...
Date: 03/12/2015
Cloud Platform Release Announcements for March 5, 2015
The updates for Microsoft's cloud platform just keep on coming. If you have any doubts about...
Date: 03/12/2015
What’s Next with Windows 10 Webcast on 3/12
Join an exclusive webcast to learn about the latest Windows 10 announcements. Stephen Rose, Senior...
Date: 03/06/2015
Azure vs Amazon
Not sure what the differences are between Microsoft's Azure and Amazon's Web Services?...
Date: 03/05/2015
Announcing Azure Preview Portal Improvements
Work on the Azure Preview Portal continues. The goal obviously is to make managing Azure easier for...
Date: 03/05/2015
Understanding network connectivity to optimize your performance with Office 365
Great blog entry, list of tools and a video at "Office Mechanics" regarding network...
Date: 03/05/2015
March Updates for Intune
Last month, Microsoft announced that we'll be updating the Intune service monthly. This matches...
Date: 03/05/2015
Office for Mac Preview
Microsoft has released a preview of the next version of Office for Mac. The apps are fully...
Date: 03/05/2015
Virtual Event - A Look Ahead: Security & the Cloud - March 25th
Join us Wednesday, March 25th for our LIVE Virtual Event dedicated to today’s major technology...
Date: 02/26/2015
InCycle Customer Events
Microsoft's good partner, InCycle, has a number of events coming up. Some are online and some,...
Date: 02/26/2015
Harrisburg Partner Event - March 11, 2015
Harnessing the Power of the Microsoft Cloud for Deep Data Analytics A Collective Intelligence IT...
Date: 02/24/2015
First look at Azure AD and Office 365 sign-in updates
Invest 12 minutes of your time to see how Azure AD Premium works with Office 365 to provide single...
Date: 02/19/2015
Microsoft adopts first international cloud privacy standard
Microsoft announced it is the first major cloud provider to adopt ISO/IEC 27018, the world’s...
Date: 02/18/2015
The next chapter of Office on Windows
How did I miss this one? Microsoft has released the preview for the new, touch-based version of...
Date: 02/13/2015
Azure Certification Resources
Anyone want to get Microsoft certified for Azure? One of my compatriots has published a great blog...
Date: 02/13/2015
Increasing Visibility for Our Customers: Announcing the Cloud Platform Roadmap Site
At Microsoft, our customers are at the heart of our business. One area where we strive to set...
Date: 01/31/2015
Microsoft Releases Outlook Clients for iOS and Android
We've released some great new mail clients for iOS and Android. They bring lots of capabilities...
Date: 01/29/2015
Migrate Linux VMs to Azure with Migration Accelerator
The Azure Migration Accelerator has been updated to make it easier for customers to move Linux...
Date: 01/15/2015
Microsoft Azure Government Overview Page Updated
The web pages for Azure Government have been updated with new, more detailed information....
Date: 01/14/2015
Azure is now bigger, faster, more open, and more secure
As has been the trend, Microsoft has released several updates to Azure this month. Among them are...
Date: 01/12/2015
Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online Government Now Generally Available to All U.S. Government Customers
To complete the US government cloud trifecta, Microsoft announced today that the Dynamics CRM Online...
Date: 01/06/2015
Documentation for Windows Server vNext
I know this blog mainly focuses on Microsoft Cloud Solutions, but any news about the next version of...
Date: 01/02/2015
Cloud + Enterprise Release Announcements for December 2014
The Cloud + Enterprise News Bytes Blog regularly provides posts that consolidate all the...
Date: 12/22/2014
Azure Backup – Announcing Support for Windows Client Operating System
Want to make sure the data on your PC or laptop is backed up regularly? Microsoft just announced the...
Date: 12/22/2014
Sneak peek at Data Loss Prevention in SharePoint - plus new mobile encryption viewers
We've been talking about this for a while, but this "Office Garage Series" episode...
Date: 12/19/2014
Serving 26 million Texans with secure cloud-based computing—a leap forward for state government agencies
A great blog post from the CIO of Texas discussing the success her state is having with...
Date: 12/15/2014
New Mobile Application Management Capabilities Coming to Microsoft Intune This Week
If you are watching, you have really seen Microsoft Intune grow up in the last year. If you think...
Date: 12/10/2014
Video calling between Skype and Lync available now
We've talked about this for a while, and it's finally here! You have been able to do IM and...
Date: 12/08/2014
Optimizing Your Datacenter with Windows Server vNext
While I have been mainly focusing on cloud related items in this blog, I thought it would be good to...
Date: 12/05/2014
Office 365 Government Community Cloud - new service description
As the first part of Microsoft's effort to provide more detailed service information about the...
Date: 12/04/2014
Learn how Microsoft IT leverages Configuration Manager in the Datacenter
On December 10 and 11, Jeremy Young, Sr. Service Engineer in the Manageability Team of Microsoft IT,...
Date: 12/03/2014
Office 365 Learning Resources
I've been sharing this list of resources with my customers lately, so thought it would be good...
Date: 12/02/2014
New Microsoft Intune capabilities
At TechEd Europe, we announced that new features would be coming soon to Microsoft Intune. New...
Date: 12/02/2014
Microsoft Security Intelligence Report v17 now available
The Microsoft Security Intelligence Report is the most comprehensive threat intelligence report in...
Date: 12/01/2014
Office 365 receives FedRAMP Authority to Operate (ATO) from HHS OIG
We are pleased to announce that Microsoft Office 365 has been granted FedRAMP Authority to Operate...
Date: 11/20/2014
Microsoft Virtual Academy courses—Office 365 security
Three courses around Office 365 security are now available through the Microsoft Virtual Academy....
Date: 11/19/2014
Introducing Office 365 Video
Microsoft has released a new component for Office 365, called Office 365 Video. This portal, built...
Date: 11/19/2014
From Inside the Cloud: What does Microsoft do to prepare for emerging security threats to Office 365?
Interesting blog posting on the measures that Microsoft has in place to prepare for emerging...
Date: 11/14/2014
Introducing Skype for Business
Yesterday we kicked off a global conversation about how Microsoft is reinventing...
Date: 11/11/2014
Microsoft announces major update to Azure SQL Database, adds free tier to Azure Machine Learning
Last week at the Professional Association for SQL Server (PASS) Summit, we celebrated SQL Server...
Date: 11/10/2014
Transforming Service in the Cloud with Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online for Government
The rapid pace of technology-fueled change has made this an exciting time full of possibilities for...
Date: 11/08/2014
Your Top 5 Mobility Challenges Solved with Microsoft EMS
On his Enterprise Devices and Infrastructure blog, Simon May discusses the top 5 mobility scenarios...
Date: 11/05/2014