Discover Shadow IT across IaaS and PaaS with Microsoft’s CASB
Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) initiated the decline of traditional data center strategies. Today, modern cloud-focused IT strategies enable organizations to implement new processes and scale their...
View ArticleDiscover Shadow IT across IaaS and PaaS with Microsoft’s CASB
Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) initiated the decline of traditional data center strategies. Today, modern cloud-focused IT strategies enable organizations to implement new processes and scale their...
View ArticlePowerShell 7 Road Map
Last month we announced that PowerShell 7 will be the next release of PowerShell. Here I will provide more details of areas we’ll be investing in for the PowerShell 7 release. When will I get it?!...
View ArticleUsing PowerShellGet with Azure Artifacts
We have improved the experience with PowerShell Get and private nuget feeds by focusing on pain points using an Azure Artifacts feed. We addressed pain points by enabling/documenting the following...
View Article25 reasons to choose Azure Stack HCI
This blog post was authored by Dianna Marks, Product Marketing Manager, Windows Server Marketing. At the Windows Server Summit in May, Cosmos Darwin and Greg Cusanza from the Windows Server team...
View ArticleAzure Policy Guest Configuration – Client
This post builds upon the introduction published earlier to the PowerShell blog. In this post we are going to explore the Azure Policy Guest Configuration client and how configuration content is...
View ArticleAzure Policy Guest Configuration – Service
This post builds upon the introduction published earlier to the PowerShell blog. In this post we are going to explore the Azure Policy Guest Configuration service. The full documentation for this...
View ArticleDSC Planning Update – June 2019
It has been almost a year since the last DSC Planning update. There has been a lot going on, many decisions being made, and it just didn’t make sense to post earlier in this calendar year. In this post...
View ArticleMicrosoft Intune customer adoption pack is now available
We are excited to announce the updated Microsoft Intune Customer Adoption Pack is now available. It is a set of content and guidance that IT administrators, trainers, champions, and change management...
View ArticleHow to Use an Additional Computer as a Secondary Display
___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT FOR OUR READERS! AskPFEPlat is in the process of a...
View ArticleRelease of PowerShell Script Analyzer 1.18.1
Overview PSScriptAnalyzer (PSSA) 1.18.1 is now available on the PSGallery and fixes not only a lot of the issues reported for 1.18.0 but has also been made twice as faster compared to 1.18.0....
View ArticleCustomers get unmatched security with Windows Server and SQL Server workloads...
This blog post was authored by Arpan Shah, General Manager, Microsoft Azure.Customers such as Allscripts, Chevron, J.B. Hunt, and thousands of others are migrating their important workloads to Azure...
View ArticleIts Moving Day for AskPFEPlat!
Hello world! Brandon Wilson, Sr PFE, excited to be here with you yet again! Today’s post is a different kind of post, one that, for me personally, tugs a bit at my heart strings. Today I am here to...
View ArticlePrioritize user investigations in Cloud App Security
This week we announced a new Identity threat investigation experience, which correlates identity events from Microsoft Cloud App Security, Azure Advanced Threat Protection, and Azure Active Directory...
View ArticleDSC Resource Kit Release June 2019
We just released the DSC Resource Kit! This release includes updates to 8 DSC resource modules. In the past 6 weeks, 95 pull requests have been merged and 55 issues have been closed, all thanks to our...
View ArticleSix months left to transform your Windows Server 2008 apps and infrastructure
This blog post was authored by Jeff Woolsey, Principal PM Manager, Windows Server.This month, SQL Server 2008 and 2008 R2 reached their End of Support. On January 14, 2020, Windows Server 2008 and 2008...
View ArticleMicrosoft Intune announces general availability of security baselines
Microsoft Intune is excited to announce general availability of Windows MDM Security Baselines. A new version of security baselines is also being released at the same time, identified as MDM Security...
View ArticleMicrosoft Intune announces general availability of administrative templates
(This post is co-authored with Aashka Damani, Program Manager, and Mayunk Jain, Product Manager, Microsoft 365) Microsoft Intune is excited to announce the general availability of administrative...
View ArticleIntroducing PowerShell as .NET Global Tool
PowerShell is very suitable for CI/CD scenarios due to its easy and well understood scripting paradigm, and its cross-platform support makes it great for building and testing cross-platform...
View ArticleMicrosoft Intune announces support for macOS FileVault disk encryption...
(This post is co-authored with Anya Novicheva, Program Manager, Microsoft 365) Microsoft Intune is excited to announce support for FileVault full-disk encryption configuration on macOS devices....
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