Enterprise Windows

After nearly a decade of examining and advocating for Microsoft's enterprise tech, J. Peter Bruzzese is passing on the torch to a new columnist

To help IT make the mental shift, the cloud industry uses analogs to the datacenter's divisions—but ultimately they'll merge into simply 'services'

In its first release, admin setup is easy but user distribution requires more work

A new dashboard will let IT more easily monitor, retain, and manage data across Office 365 -- not email alone

Translation is not a detail you add to a SharePoint site after deployment, especially because the tools that SharePoint provides can be tricky to use

Office 365 is a great tool for small businesses, but many still need local servers and joint cloud/on-premises administration

Love it or hate it, Yammer is a tool that admins need to reckon with, and there's an admin center to do exactly that

Microsoft and third parties are layering on more security technology to keep vulnerabilities harder to exploit at scale

Don't let the initially simple interface fool you: Office 365's admin capabilities equal those of on-premises Exchange, SharePoint, and more

Nano Server is a very fast, powerful tool for remotely administering Windows servers, but you need to know what you're doing

Three examples show the power of GPOs that every Windows admin should be using

There are times you need to use a different tool to manage Office 365. Here are three you should know

For collaborative classroom use by teachers and students, Microsoft has a special edition of Office 365

Even as the action shifts to the cloud, there's plenty going on in virtual servers

The newest OMS component provides security analysis and threat detection across cloud and on-premises systems

Virtual reality is fine for games, but the true game-changer will be the interaction between the real and virtual worlds

The virtualization era featured VMware, Microsoft, and Citrix. In the cloud era, Amazon, Microsoft, and Google lead -- but Microsoft has the only real hybrid option

With the core tools largely toughened, Microsoft is building out new capabilities in video and community sites

As more IT shops migrate to cloud services like Office 365 and Azure, they face a new challenge: how to manage it all

Check your Office 365 security settings before you cave in to (or blow off) security vendor FUD