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...

Author: AMacKinnon 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!!...

Author: AMacKinnon 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...

Author: AMacKinnon 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...

Author: AMacKinnon 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...

Author: AMacKinnon Date: 03/26/2015

Announcing Azure App Service

Microsoft has released Azure App Service, a new cloud service that lets developers build web and...

Author: AMacKinnon 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...

Author: AMacKinnon 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...

Author: AMacKinnon 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...

Author: AMacKinnon 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...

Author: AMacKinnon 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...

Author: AMacKinnon Date: 03/06/2015

Azure vs Amazon

Not sure what the differences are between Microsoft's Azure and Amazon's Web Services?...

Author: AMacKinnon 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...

Author: AMacKinnon 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...

Author: AMacKinnon Date: 03/05/2015

March Updates for Intune

Last month, Microsoft announced that we'll be updating the Intune service monthly. This matches...

Author: AMacKinnon 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...

Author: AMacKinnon 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...

Author: AMacKinnon Date: 02/26/2015

InCycle Customer Events

Microsoft's good partner, InCycle, has a number of events coming up. Some are online and some,...

Author: AMacKinnon 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...

Author: AMacKinnon 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...

Author: AMacKinnon 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...

Author: AMacKinnon 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...

Author: AMacKinnon Date: 02/13/2015

Azure Certification Resources

Anyone want to get Microsoft certified for Azure? One of my compatriots has published a great blog...

Author: AMacKinnon 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...

Author: AMacKinnon 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...

Author: AMacKinnon 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...

Author: AMacKinnon Date: 01/15/2015

Microsoft Azure Government Overview Page Updated

The web pages for Azure Government have been updated with new, more detailed information....

Author: AMacKinnon 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...

Author: AMacKinnon 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...

Author: AMacKinnon 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...

Author: AMacKinnon Date: 01/02/2015

Cloud + Enterprise Release Announcements for December 2014

The Cloud + Enterprise News Bytes Blog regularly provides posts that consolidate all the...

Author: AMacKinnon 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...

Author: AMacKinnon 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...

Author: AMacKinnon 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...

Author: AMacKinnon 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...

Author: AMacKinnon 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...

Author: AMacKinnon 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...

Author: AMacKinnon 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...

Author: AMacKinnon 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,...

Author: AMacKinnon 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...

Author: AMacKinnon Date: 12/02/2014

New Microsoft Intune capabilities

At TechEd Europe, we announced that new features would be coming soon to Microsoft Intune. New...

Author: AMacKinnon Date: 12/02/2014

Microsoft Security Intelligence Report v17 now available

The Microsoft Security Intelligence Report is the most comprehensive threat intelligence report in...

Author: AMacKinnon 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...

Author: AMacKinnon 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....

Author: AMacKinnon Date: 11/19/2014

Introducing Office 365 Video

Microsoft has released a new component for Office 365, called Office 365 Video. This portal, built...

Author: AMacKinnon 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...

Author: AMacKinnon Date: 11/14/2014

Introducing Skype for Business

Yesterday we kicked off a global conversation about how Microsoft is reinventing...

Author: AMacKinnon 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...

Author: AMacKinnon 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...

Author: AMacKinnon 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...

Author: AMacKinnon Date: 11/05/2014

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