Microsoft Will Fix Windows 10's Most Annoying Feature, Sort Of

I like Windows 10. For me, it has made a Windows operating system that I really like to use. But there are a couple of things about how it works that bothers me at once, and power users. In essence, Windows updates are a pain and force users to restart sometimes they are inconvenient or you can automatically restart a computer without warning.

Users like Sergey Tkachenko of WinAero in the Windows Insider preview program have noticed that it has been added to the Windows Update system that allows them to see all the updates all the time up to 35 days to the new option. The parameter resides in the "advanced" on the Windows Update configuration page and is a typical on / off configuration, there is no actual granularity control.

Some versions of Windows 10 (Pro, Enterprise and Education) already have a strong control "defer updates." This is similar, and to hold new features to back up enough time for serious problems to come to light. This is great for business, but not for use for home users should upgrade from $ 99 to Windows 10 Pro to take advantage of this option - probably not worth it, unless you also want RDP and opportunity To get to the areas too.

I find the way Windows 10 takes care of the hugely frustrating updates, and although this change is welcome, I do not think it goes far enough. I am very satisfied that Windows has security updates for Defender only, but if there is an update automatically triggers a reboot, I think it should be queried.

Now there is a way to prevent Windows 10 from being restarted after an upgrade. You need to play with some settings, but open the Task Scheduler and "Library" open, then find and find MicrosoftWindowsUpdateOrchestrator "reboot". From there, you can right-click and disable this function. This is obviously a risk, and many of us prefer Microsoft makes it easy to change the way our computer in the update window.

As Microsoft strives to make its many more operating systems easy to use, it also tends to eliminate some controls. I'm in favor of ensuring that non-technical users get updates correctly, but at least give people a little control of how their PC's work, after all, is my non-Microsoft computer.

Windows 10 also gets a new gameplay that will optimize performance and filter blue light, as these are in vogue now. Forbes contributor Antony Leather has details about these features.

The year Microsoft Regained its Mojo

I have had mixed feelings about Microsoft for a long time. A part of me likes the company, such as its MS-DOS operating system, and later Windows, which started on the computer when a beige opaque box with a green monochrome display appeared on my father's desk in late 1980s. Currently, Microsoft Outlook and Word are my constant companions, and I continue to be amazed by the Xbox gaming platform, despite being "fragged" and then insulted by the squeaky-tweeted preteens every time I have the Opportunity to play a game online. Long ago also have been frustrated by Microsoft, as they have launched a number of innovations, only to release a semi-cooked product that is never updated and finally died as the Palm / Pocket PC / Windows Mobile PC and Innovative, ultimately unhappy.

The year 2016 seems to mark a resurgence of the software company, led by new CEO Satya Nadella. These are some signs of a resurgence of Microsoft, and what it means for IT leaders.

Microsoft loses its religion

The decade of 2000 was characterized by a Microsoft following a "Windows everywhere" strategy that the company has tried to expand beyond the desktop. Mobile was obviously a key part of this strategy, but at some point Microsoft Windows on any car dashboards planned for industrial systems, years before Apple has market carplay. In this "monolithic world, Windows leaders '' I had to go to Microsoft for everything from the tool management software, creating a Windows-driven Trojan horse, I would ultimately sell more of everything that Microsoft offers.

This strategy has clearly failed, the gravestone in the effort to be an accident nearly 8 billion Microsoft Nokia high profile acquisition as a way to catch up mobile. Mr. Nadella seems to have taken the best elements of "Windows everywhere" such as common development tools and integration between Microsoft devices, and abandoned the dogma of Microsoft devices running an operating system software Microsoft under Microsoft. MS Office works fine on an iPad, and Linux-based applications happily reside in the Microsoft cloud. IT leaders must become more committed to a Microsoft ecosystem, a smart move because operating system products are becoming more expensive.

He gets up to jump

Microsoft has lost several key technology trends, as the value of the Internet was dismissed in the early 1990s, only to focus the entire company on the destruction of Netscape in a battle for the supremacy of the browser. The surrender of Netscape was followed by successful attacks on the game front with Xbox and a series of bugs on the mobile device, as the unfortunate Zune iPod competing Windows Phone and Nokia radiation. Microsoft this time seemed more like a tyrant hoping to jump in any upstart achieved an innovator.

More recently, Microsoft has focused its resources on innovation, with products ranging from the HoloLens enhanced platform and virtual reality to a "virtual assistant" strongly integrated office, business-focused collaboration tools.

From the company to achieve things

Another frustration was Microsoft, with its bizarre attempts to segment the market. Perhaps the worst manifestation of this was the Office suite, which in 2007 had no fewer than eight different versions ranging from basic to Ultimate. Buyers were forced to fit into the Microsoft licensing paradigm instead of being able to easily select the tools they need to get their job done. Small businesses could access a "Small Business Edition" at a good price, but all of a sudden their licensing costs would increase exponentially if they wanted a feature or two in the "Enterprise" versions.

The resurgence of Microsoft seems to have re-focused on the execution of the work, which provides buffet productivity software as part of its Office 365 suite. Instead of complicated licensing systems and restrictions, someone at Microsoft seems to have really studied how Individuals and companies use their software, and it is much easier for individuals and IT managers to select the tools they need without having to study a complex array of licensing options.

In the same vein, once Microsoft seemed to have seen the two-dimensional world as consumers and business customers now recognize independent workers, non-standard workers and others

Microsoft is officially the proud owner of LinkedIn

The technology giant closes its $ 26.2 billion acquisition of the social business network.

It's been a long time since Microsoft is the official owner of LinkedIn.

 The two companies said Thursday that their acquisition contract had closed. It's been six months since the news broke that Microsoft was planning to throw down $ 26.2 billion for the corporate social network - its biggest ever acquisition.

"I am more confident than ever that our commitment to join forces with Microsoft will accelerate our mission to connect the world's professionals to make them more productive and ultimately help create economic opportunities for all members of the world-wide workforce," writes LinkedIn. CEO Jeff Weiner in a blog post.

For Microsoft, the LinkedIn contract is continuing its plan to become a critical provider for cloud-based service companies, including its 365 office. Both companies said they plan to work together on artificial intelligence, learning, cloud, devices and more.

 As for the users, Weiner said LinkedIn will remain essentially unchanged. I have added that over the next few months, the social network will share more about how it integrates its services with Microsoft products.

The European Union gave its blessing to the agreement on Tuesday, which led to the official closure of the acquisition. Microsoft has applied for regulatory approval from the governments of the United States, Canada, Brazil and the EU, which all approved the agreement.

Maybe Microsoft Isn't Ignoring Musicians After All

While its visuals the goal of the new Microsoft hardware is the Windows Update "Creators Update", Follow the Musicians in the image.

As a musician of All Life, at the beginning of me I felt despised by the new Microsoft EMPHASIS in creativity.

The Next Desktop Zone Studio is clear assent for visual artists, with a Touch Screen to draw Massive, Paint and Graphics Design, WHILE The Dialo area quadrant Seems ideal for Selecting Tools in Photoshop. Both will be Enhanced Devices By Upgrading Windows 10 Creators, which INCLUDES New Programs for and 3D Modeling Drawing. Those ads seemed to leave the musicians out of the picture, so ASK the factory-free digital music audio devices and if Microsoft had neglected them.

Search Results that ANSWER IS NO. Instead of feeling abandoned, musicians are intrigued by the new hardware encouraged and by the recent radar enhancements for musicians on Windows 10. As a result m, Windows could soon make musicians what they seem to be doing for artists, If included microsoft has not done much to advertise Darla.
captive audience



With digital music, one of the biggest concerns is to make sure that the software is keyboards and communicates properly against mixers and other equipment. THIS REQUIRES TO HAVE THE FOLLOWING CONTROLLERS, Microsoft has not traditionally done a Great Job to provide.

However, Ernst-Nathorst Böös, CEO of Propellerhead (Popular Motif Maker Recording Software), said that THESE Problems addressing this Microsoft in Windows 10. September, the Company has started active testing native Support for low-latency USB audio, Have to Rely on A Litany of Third Party Truck Drivers for Your Team.

"You can be sure of everything you buy in that: software terms are the hardware will always work, and the performance will get you NEEDED" Nathorst Böös data.

Microsoft has also IMPULSED THE COMPATIBILITY With its MIDI, a sanitary protocol of Decades that is commonly used by synthesizers ConTrolar Para, Synchronize Instruments and Effects trigger. The Windows 10 Anniversary Update This summer, for example, Anadio Bluetooth Support LE MIDI, a sanitary protocol for Wireless Music Devices.

For IK Multimedia, That's Big Problem UN, is that it will allow Pedal Controller Devices for Guitar Effects to work with Windows like Blueboard -a. (CURRENTLY Blueboard Works With Only iOS Macs and iK Multimedia Devices and this Working in the Now Windows Support).

Between Bluetooth LE MIDI and USB audio, the Company CAN Make its very fast existing hardware has Disposition Plus clients. "A large part of the Market for us is open," said Alessandro Fiorletta, Manager of Software Development at IK Multimedia.

But without this Completely satisfied Fiorletta. He points out that the previous Windows versions still constitute a considerable portion of the Audience of IK Multimedia, Microsoft does not add improvements likely to bring music has AES Versions. But at least he recognizes that the Company has been listening to the Musicians Concerns Lately.

"We HAD had with the many Discussions on THESE Microsoft Issues in the Past, but Now It Seems to be Finally Some of These Problems Addressing, Which is Very Important," Fiorletta Data.
Surface-fed

Digital music companies do not feel snoubé by Microsoft on the hardware side, either. Although the illustration is the case of the obvious use for Microsoft Surface and marking of studio surfaces, they could be useful for creating the music too.

"[Microsoft is] kind of identifying that touchscreens are great, but it only has more tactile control," Ryan Wardell, director of Avid's audio workstations and surfaces, said the knoblike device would mark. While Avid has not decided to support the dial in its Pro Tools music production software, Wardell would imagine that it might be useful to control various mix parameters and selected tools.

Of Propellerhead Nathorst-Böös is also excited about the jumbo touch screen of the study area, and how it could interact with the dial, although it disputed the starting price of $ 3,000.

"If you can bring this kind of technology and power to anything and make it available to musicians, I think you could build amazing things for it both for music and DJ," he said.

This is not to say that Microsoft needs its own equipment to capture music creators. Despite conventional wisdom about the creative appeal of Mac computers, music producers do not have the same loyalty to Apple's platform as visual artists. The three companies I spoke to said that their office users are evenly distributed between Windows and Mac OS X.

Ryan Wardell, director of Avid audio and surface workstations, explains: Digital musicians tend to build their own equipment. In doing so, it is a natural progression of musical instruments, recording equipment and tools that we have built together mixing.

Many musicians have a unique do-it-yourself mindset, so some people see their ability to expand than to build home equipment, "Wardell said.

This is precisely what happened with Nathorst-Böös Propellerhead. After 30 years as a Mac user, he recently built his own home studio desk and dedicated to music creation.

"I think Windows 10 feels great and looks great, and I was able to buy a small compact compact computer for my studio in my home," Nathorst says. "It's cheaper than a Mac, and it's fast."
Amplify the message

Since music software and hardware companies are happy with Windows, perhaps the problem of Microsoft is the perception. This may be due in part to the fact that Apple was melting like Windows PC Computing machines without interest for more than a decade.

However, Microsoft did not help. While Apple has included Macs with creative programs like iMovie and GarageBand, Windows was not so ambitious with its own creative software, offering only light photo editing tools and a naked voice recorder in Windows 10.

As for third-party applications, Microsoft occasionally moves Staffpad into its marketing materials to illustrate how Windows can be useful to musicians. However, punctuation is only one facet of musical creation, and is of little use to electronic musicians, producers, and, as the old joke says, guitarists like me.

Change can come on that front as well. In a video presentation for Windows 10 Update Creators coming early next year, Microsoft briefly showed a program called Groove Music Maker, which resembles Apple's GarageBand. Just as Microsoft Surface devices help set the high-end Windows PC, a program like Groove Music Maker could help send a message about creating music in Windows 10.

"I am delighted that even though it would be competition for us," said Ernst Ernst Nathorst-Böös Propellerhead, "because it helps people understand the idea that their equipment can be a musical instrument and a music device.

Fiorletta IK Multimedia agrees. After more than a decade in the digital music industry, it is not always surprising that guitarists never think to release their instruments to the amplifier for recording or effects.

"They do not know, he said, computers that can be useful to play music."

Microsoft app delivers colorful window to the world for the colorblind

ALWAYS hay is slower than Colorblind Helps Los Mas Personas of a color embargo, a garage Microsoft Wanted team to get to a solution f CAN How to use that Free on your smartphone or tablet. Enter: Binoculars of color.

"I already have Difficulty distinguishing between red and green, Our Makes application that the reds are more brilliant reserves and the Greens Greener For the most obvious sea difference," said Tom Overton, a Microsoft engineer who helped develop has air application Zhu Tingting. "Replace Combinations of Difficult Colors, Like Red and Green, with More Easy Combinations to Break, Distinguish Like Pink and Green."

The refreshingly simple application offers the same modifications to the display: Red / Green, Green / Red and Blue / Yellow - and it does not allow taking photos, it is supposed to be a color window for the world instead of a photo application.

Most People ColorBlind Your Conscious State Do, But If You Have Your Suspicions That Color Perception Could Off Be, CAN The Active Test Ishihara's popular color test. Of course, it is always better to consult a doctor for a vision evaluation of medicinal, but with the ESA test, some adj users have left comments claiming that the application helped have better color worm distinctions.

70-411 Exam Question No 61

Question No 61:

Your network contains an Active Directory forest named contoso.com. The forest functional level is Windows Server 2012 R2. The forest contains a single domain. You create a Password Settings object (PSO) named PSO1. You need to delegate the rights to apply PSO1 to the Active Directory objects in an organizational unit named OU1. What should you do?

A. From Active Directory Users and Computers, run the Delegation of Control Wizard.
B. From Active Directory Administrative Center, modify the security settings of PSO1.
C. From Group Policy Management, create a Group Policy object (GPO) and link the GPO to OU1.
D. From Active Directory Administrative Center, modify the security settings of OU1.

Answer: B

Microsoft's dream of Windows on phones is as good as dead — and that's great for Microsoft

With 1% of global market share, the chances of Microsoft Windows to become an important player game smartphones are basically dead.

It's time to let Windows Phone go, and move on

 It seems that Microsoft: In addition to a video camera in the new smartphone X3 Elite HP, the operating system Windows Mobile 10 did not observe any look at the essential fact microsoft The last area.

And in an interview with Mary Jo Foley of ZDNet this week, the head of Terry Myerson Windows, said the main reason Microsoft is still working on its Windows Mobile 10 operating system is an investment in the technology of an effort to build a commercially viable product.

 By continuing to work on Windows Mobile 10, Myerson said, Microsoft generally improves when working with mobile devices with ARM processors - the same type of low-power chips for smartphones that Apple uses in its latest MacBooks, but PC with windows has never been fully supported.

"When you stop investing in these things is super hard, super, super hard reboot," Myerson said Foley.



It is a great blessing to Microsoft. The slow death of Windows phones is a setback for Microsoft, to be sure. But now that is done, and the albatross around the neck of the company is rising, smarter Microsoft and begins to rise.

Death spiral

Microsoft has spent the premiere release of Windows 10, claiming that the new operating system could reach one billion active devices in three years, on PCs, phones, tablets, HoloLens holographic glasses and Xbox One.

A major reason for Microsoft's insistence to get one billion users were to attract developers of Windows Store, the market available applications in Windows 10 on all devices. It would be a billion potential customers for application vendors, and hopefully enough to attract them away from focusing on both iPhone and Android.

And the idea was, this proliferation of applications would lead to more people buy phones with Windows, resolving the huge gap in the implementation of the platform. I have been a bold and clever plan to help Microsoft to gain ground on Apple and Google. It's a shame it does not really work that way at all.

 Earlier this year, Microsoft announced an indefinite postponement of this objective that the industry Windows Phone slumped even more. A little over a year of execution in Windows 10, which has more than 400 million active devices, with the rate of deceleration of growth as offering free upgrade to Microsoft expires.

And the Windows Store is still quite sorry. Companies like Facebook and Uber includes windows 10 applications, but there is no sign of cooler small businesses like Snapchat make their products available in the store.

All this to say, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella gave him the best chance I could. It did not work, and now Microsoft is taking a step back and refocus on the things that society is very, very good.

Blessing in disguise

 This boils down to this: Thanks to a smart and aggressive to attract niche company with its surface work and because he did well to put their best stuff on other platforms, is Microsoft best of your situation.

Microsoft telephony business can be a disaster, but the overall hardware business the company is stronger than ever. Microsoft Surface Pro Surface tablet and portable book represent a lucrative business of more than $ 4 billion per quarter. Soon the surface highly anticipated PC Studio will join the range.

 So, yes, maybe Microsoft does not win on smartphones, now or never. And it seems increasingly unlikely that even the "surface of the phone" long-rumored to reverse the trend, if it never actually hit the market.

 But if the goal is to get Windows to many more places, then the current company strategy surface makes a lot of sense. It is building the best laptops and tablets out there - and win converts as the Apple Mac This makes Windows more attractive to a whole new audience..

Meanwhile, applications of Microsoft Office for iPhone and Android are still some of the best ways to do work on the road, giving the company a growing and growing presence on smartphones people at home and the job.

This is not good for the ego of owning the platform, but it also means that Microsoft has Apple and hard work for Google to attract customers. And no more distraction for Microsoft have to worry about its own operating, system as well.

So we will continue to work on Microsoft Windows Mobile 10 as a technical project and keep the dream alive for the remaining handful of fans of smartphones Microsoft. The company is trying to take intelligent action that will eventually carry it out no matter how the market turns.

70-411 Exam Question No 60

Question No 60:

Your network contains an Active Directory domain named contoso.com. You create a user account named User1. The properties of User1 are shown in the exhibit. (Click the
Exhibit button.) 

You plan to use the User1 account as a service account. The service will forward authentication requests to other servers. You need to ensure that you can view the Delegation tab from the properties of the User1 account. What should you do first?

A. Configure the Name Mappings of User1.
B. Modify the user principal name (UPN) of User1.
C. Configure a Service Principal Name (SPN) for User1.
D. Modify the Security settings of User1.

Answer: C

How Microsoft wants to dominate virtual reality

This new team studying the surface may have been the star of the last show Wednesday from Microsoft, but history has not been enough attention was how Microsoft extends its plans for platforms augmented reality and virtual time believing that mark the beginning of a new era of computing.

Next year Microsoft will release a free upgrade to Windows 10 calls the update of the creators, including the possibility of connecting a virtual reality helmet on your PC. Helmets are also relatively cheap, from $ 299. They will be built by all major PC manufacturers such as Dell, Lenovo and Asus.

 But they are more than just affordable helmets. They also have features that still can not get into the high-end headphones as Oculus Rift Facebook, which costs $ 599. Specifically, helmets are able to provide free range of motion without an external camera that follows.

Alex Kipman, head of HoloLens and other projects of virtual and augmented reality Microsoft, told Business Insider in an interview last week that the new portfolio of virtual reality helmets will be the "most powerful and enveloping helmets more affordable price."

The latter about accessibility is an important caveat, of course. While new helmets Dell, Lenovo, and the rest can not match the Oculus Rift, in terms of screen quality, which will be immediately more accessible and more capable in some respects.

 At this time, the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive require very powerful computers that can cost $ 1,000 or more. But the windows 10 helmets will be able to run on personal computers that cost about $ 500. In many cases, if you have a computer that can run Windows 10, which has a team working with VR.

This is a great advantage. VR is still in its infancy and is not accessible to many people. But the opening of a large part of the ecosystem of Windows with affordable VR helmets could give a major boost.

Then there is monitoring. Kipman bragged how it will be an important new helmets active competition. Microsoft will stop VR manufacturers use the same integrated control found in HoloLens town, which is completely untethered from a PC and can "analyze" their environment so you can move freely VR. While the Oculus Rift live and a camera or laser transmitters in your room this is installed, Windows helmets will be able to do so without an external accessory and several hundred dollars cheaper. Facebook briefly joked his own Oculus Rift with this "inside out" followed, but is still in the early stages. Microsoft will be ready next spring.

With a Windows update, Microsoft will jump immediately much of its support from VR. It will be the best, most affordable to the exclusive VR experience and puts the company in a position to dominate the category.

70-411 Exam Question No 59

Question No 59:

Your network contains an Active Directory domain named contoso.com. All domain controllers run Windows Server 2012 R2. On all of the domain controllers, Windows is installed in C:\Windows and the Active Directory database is located in D:\Windows\NTDS\. All of the domain controllers have a third-party application installed. The operating system fails to recognize that the application is compatible with domain controller cloning. You verify with the application vendor that the application supports domain controller cloning. You need to prepare a domain controller for cloning. What should you do?

A. In D:\Windows\NTDS\, create an XML file named DCCloneConfig.xml and add the application
information to the file.
B. In the root of a USB flash drive, add the application information to an XML file named
DefaultDCCIoneAllowList.xml.
C. In D:\Windows\NTDS\, create an XML file named CustomDCCloneAllowList.xml and add the application information to the file.
D. In C:\Windows\System32\Sysprep\Actionfiles\, add the application information to an XML file named Respecialize.xml.

Answer: C

Microsoft employees love Satya Nadella a lot more than they did Steve Ballmer

A successful business is a productive, and Microsoft employees are very happy, found firm UBS analysts said in a report in early October.

In fact, Microsoft is happier than Apple for the first time since UBS started following the feeling of employees in 2012. The study uses data to track all Glassdoor approval CEO of opportunities for global company advance the overall outlook of the company.

"The overall results support our thesis that MSFT is once again a destination for top talent in technology, with annual evaluations improve continuously and with peers," writes UBS.

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella looks particularly good, calculating the ratio. In late 2013, the last days of the reign of former CEO Steve Ballmer, Microsoft gave a rating of 51% for CEO approval. Nadella took over in February 2014, and CEO approval rating hit 88% by the end of 2015.

This year is not over yet, but now Microsoft makes about 10% higher employee satisfaction in the industry average, UBS said, edges out Apple.

Meanwhile, LinkedIn, Microsoft bought in a blockbuster $ 26.2 trillion in early 2016 agreement, they are not as happy as it used to be.

LinkedIn uses for the best high-tech company in the ranking UBS, with satisfaction levels of 17% above average, and an approval rate of 95% for the CEO Jeff Weiner. not bad, and even 3, but a disappointing letdown for the social network company - Since the agreement, which is up to 11% higher and a rate of 85% CEO approval was announced.

Under Nadella, Microsoft itself has refocused on providing services and tools through a subscription model, even if it means providing products for enemies once as iPhone, Android Apple google, or system Linux operating.

Bidding From Salesforce Pushed Microsoft to Raise Its Offer for LinkedIn

Salesforce.com Inc. auction persistent forced Microsoft Corp. to increase its offer by LinkedIn Corp. 22%, or about $ 5 billion over the two months of negotiations, according to a regulatory filing by the professional social network and a person with knowledge of the matter.

The software giant has finally agreed to buy LinkedIn past to $ 26.2 billion, or $ 196 per share in cash month. This was a 50% premium over the share price of LinkedIn before the announcement of the transaction.

A Securities and Exchange Commission filing Friday revealed that Microsoft presented LinkedIn on May 4, a non-binding indication of interest for the acquisition of LinkedIn at $ 160 per share in cash. Nine days earlier, another company, described by LinkedIn as "Part A", filed its own non-binding indication of interest to buy the company for $ 160 to $ 165 per share in cash and stock mix.

The Wall Street Journal and other publications previously reported Salesforce was the second bidder on LinkedIn. The person familiar with the Salesforce confirmed is the part A.

Salesforce offering pressured Microsoft to raise its offer several times. Even after LinkedIn entered into an agreement to negotiate exclusively with Microsoft, Salesforce has continued to push its bid. And as its stock price soared, the value of its offer has also grown, LinkedIn executives rely on Microsoft for more money.

LinkedIn also revealed that a third company, which describes only as "Part B" has also signed a confidentiality agreement when considering the purchase of the company after his bronze head LinkedIn Jeff Weiner Executive LinkedIn and majority shareholder and chairman Reid Hoffman met. As the first offers rolled in early May, Part B is removed without bidding, saying he was only interested in a team with LinkedIn.

After Microsoft and Salesforce have submitted their initial bids on May 6, LinkedIn has notified the companies that enter into exclusive negotiations with any bidder if it raised its offer to $ 200 per share. Neither company has. This started a bidding war that forced Microsoft to keep pace with the increasing price of shares of Salesforce.com, ultimately leading to earn generous offer from Microsoft.

Three days later, Hoffman met with Bill Gates, Microsoft co-founder and director of the company, on a date that was already planned. The pair discussed "potential benefits to potentially acquire Microsoft LinkedIn" according to the ranking. They also discussed the possible participation of Mr. Hoffman after an acquisition, "which includes, among other things, can serve your management board microsoft".

The same week, Salesforce has revised its offer to $ 171 per share in cash and stock, while Microsoft raised its offer to $ 172 per share in cash. Both bidders said they preferred not to participate in an auction, but they wanted LinkedIn to advise an acceptable price.

On May 12, LinkedIn said the two companies to submit "best and final offer" by the afternoon the next day. Hoffman called Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said he "personally would support" an offer from Microsoft $ 185 per share or more if the board LinkedIn select Microsoft as the winning bidder.

On May 13, Microsoft offered $ 182 per share in cash, but offered to make an offer in cash and shares, if LinkedIn is preferred. Salesforce offered $ 182 per share, which includes $ 85 per share in cash and the rest in shares. Both proposals have called LinkedIn negotiate exclusively.

Later that day, the LinkedIn directory has chosen Microsoft's offer and one day later entered into an exclusive agreement with the company.

This has not prevented Salesforce, however. During the next month, as LinkedIn and agreement hammered Microsoft, Salesforce has submitted revised proposals. The offers are not radically different. But escalating stock prices Salesforce has boosted the value of its global offering. However, LinkedIn has determined that it could not respond to the offer of Salesforce because of the exclusivity agreement.

On June 5, Salesforce tried again, increasing the number of shares in its offer of cash and shares, for a total value of $ 200 per share. LinkedIn did not respond. But the company said Mr. Nadella 7th June and again on June 8 to $ 182 per share offer Microsoft "was more bearable" and encouraged Microsoft to increase its offering of $ 200 per share.

At that time, Mr. Weiner Nadella said that companies would have to discuss "cost synergies in the operation" Microsoft to increase its offer. This led to CFO Steven Sordello send LinkedIn Amy Hood, his counterpart at Microsoft, "an analysis of the potential cost synergies resulting from the combination," the statement said. The presentation did not reveal what these cost synergies.

That was enough to convince Microsoft on June 10 to raise its offer again, this time to $ 190 per share in cash. Later that day, Mr. Weiner told Mr. Nadella that the council would support a bid for $ 196 per share in cash. On Saturday June 11, Mr. Nadella accepted, and the companies have signed an agreement. The companies announced the news two days later, before the opening of the market.

70-411 Exam Question No 58

Question No 58:

Your network contains three Network Policy Server (NPS) servers named NPS1, NPS2, and NPS3.
NP51 is configured as a RADIUS proxy that forwards connection requests to a remote RADIUS server group named Group1. You need to ensure that NPS2 receives connection requests. NPS3 must only receive connection requests if NPS2 is unavailable. How should you configure Group1?

A. Change the Priority of NPS3 to 10.
B. Change the Weight of NPS2 to 10.
C. Change the Weight of NPS3 to 10.
D. Change the Priority of NPS2 to 10.

Answer: A

70-411 Exam Question No 57

Question No 57:

Your network contains an Active Directory domain named contoso.com. Network Access Protection (NAP) is deployed to the domain.
You need to create NAP event trace log files on a client computer. What should you run?

A. Logman
B. Register-ObjectEvent
C. Tracert
D. Register-EngineEvent

Answer: A

70-411 Exam Question No 56

Question No 56:

Your network contains an Active Directory domain named contoso.com. All domain controllers run
Windows Server 2012 R2. You create a central store for Group Policy. You receive a custom administrative template named Template1.admx. You need to ensure that the settings in Template1.admx appear in all new Group Policy objects (GPOs). What should you do?

A. From the Default Domain Controllers Policy, add Template1.admx to the Administrative Templates.
B. From the Default Domain Policy, add Template1.admx to the Administrative Templates.
C. Copy Template1.admx to \\Contoso.com\SYSVOL\Contoso.com\Policies\PolicyDefinitions\.
D. Copy Template1.admx to \\Contoso.com\NETLOGON.

Answer: C

70-411 Exam Question No 56

Question No 56:

Your network contains an Active Directory domain named contoso.com. All domain controllers run
Windows Server 2012 R2. You create a central store for Group Policy. You receive a custom administrative template named Template1.admx. You need to ensure that the settings in Template1.admx appear in all new Group Policy objects (GPOs). What should you do?

A. From the Default Domain Controllers Policy, add Template1.admx to the Administrative Templates.
B. From the Default Domain Policy, add Template1.admx to the Administrative Templates.
C. Copy Template1.admx to \\Contoso.com\SYSVOL\Contoso.com\Policies\PolicyDefinitions\.
D. Copy Template1.admx to \\Contoso.com\NETLOGON.

Answer: C

Why Microsoft Corporation (MSFT) Is Willing To Delay Release Of The Surface Pro 5

Microsoft will feature the Intel processor Kaby Lake in its next generation Surface Pro

Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) plans to announce its next generation Surface Pro in mid-2016, but the latest rumors speculate that the technology giant is ready to delay its release. New rumors indicate that Microsoft Surface Pro will be powered by the processor for the next generation of Intel, called "Kaby lake." However, Intel plans to launch its Kaby Lake processor in early 2017, which means that Microsoft also wait until then to release its surface Pro 5. This is taking the country by calling why Microsoft is willing to delay the release of the Pro surface 5.

If the rumors are true and Microsoft has decided to provide its surface 5 Pro with an Intel Lake Kaby then the delay processor must be worthwhile. This is because virtually Kaby Lake processor better in all aspects of the Pro 5 surface compared to its predecessor, the Microsoft Surface Pro 4. While the current surface Pro 4 has received positive reviews and is a great device all- round, but has its flaws. The biggest disappointment of the surface 4 Pro is the average battery life, but the gain Lake Kaby processor power efficiency definitively solve the biggest problem of the Pro 4 surface.

As for the specifications Microsoft Surface Pro 5 Go, the most reliable sources are speculating that will sport a 4K screen. It is no secret that the display of the actual surface Pro 4 is great just the way it is, but competitors like Apple and Google are working on bringing their own devices compatible new generation of 4K. So Microsoft can not afford to be left behind. In addition, the surface Pro 5 is also rumored to feature a powerful 16 GB of RAM will make it much faster than its predecessor. It is also logical to understand why the rumors speculate that the surface coming Pro 5 to introduce the latest AMD or Nvidia GPU. More speculated specifications for the Pro surface 5 points for fast charging port USB type C, fingerprint reader and integrated charging station for the included stylus.

It is surprising that Microsoft could wait until early 2017 to clean the Pro 5 surface, especially because one of its biggest rivals, Apple is set to release its next-generation MacBook Pro. However, if the software giant is true that, by delaying the release of its surface with Intel Pro 5 Kaby lake, which can provide a much better device on the market processor, the wait should be worth it. Nothing is confirmed and we'll all just have to wait to see what Microsoft has for us all. We only hope that Microsoft knows what it does and that the delay is worth the wait.

70-411 Exam Question No 55

Question No 55:

Your network contains an Active Directory domain named contoso.com. All domain controllers run
Windows Server 2012 R2. A domain controller named DO has the ADMX Migrator tool installed. You have a custom Administrative Template file on DC1 named Template1.adm.
You need to add a custom registry entry to Template1.adm by using the ADMX Migrator tool.
Which action should you run first?

A. Load Template
B. New Policy Setting
C. Generate ADMX from ADM
D. New Category

Answer: C

70-411 Exam Question No 54

Question No 54:

Your network contains an Active Directory domain named contoso.com. All domain controllers run
Windows Server 2012 R2. An organizational unit (OU) named OU1 contains 200 client computers that run Windows 8 Enterprise. A Group Policy object (GPO) named GPO1 is linked to OU1.
You make a change to GPO1. You need to force all of the computers in OU1 to refresh their Group Policy settings immediately. The solution must minimize administrative effort. Which tool should you use?

A. The Secedit command
B. Group Policy Management Console (GPMC)
C. Server Manager
D. The Gpupdate command

Answer: B
 

70-411 Exam Question No 53

Question No 53:

Your network contains two servers named Server1 and Server2. Both servers run Windows Server 2012 R2 and have the DNS Server server role installed. Server1 hosts a primary zone for contoso.com. Server2 hosts a secondary zone for contoso.com. The zone is not configured to notify secondary servers of changes automatically. You update several records on Server1. You need to force the replication of the contoso.com zone records from Server1 to Server2. What should you do from Server2?

A. Right-click the contoso.com zone and click Reload.
B. Right-click the contoso.com zone and click Transfer from Master.
C. Right-click Server2 and click Update Server Data Files.
D. Right-click Server2 and click Refresh.

Answer: B

70-411 Exam Question No 52

Question No 52:

Your network contains two servers named Served and Server 2. Both servers run Windows Server 2012 R2 and have the DNS Server server role installed. On Server1, you create a standard primary zone named contoso.com. You plan to create a standard primary zone for ad.contoso.com on Server2. You need to ensure that Server1 forwards all queries for ad.contoso.com to Server2.
What should you do from Server1?

A. Create a trust anchor named Server2.
B. Create a conditional forward that points to Server2.
C. Add Server2 as a name server.
D. Create a zone delegation that points to Server2.

Answer: D

Google and Microsoft have Made a Pact to Protect Surveillance Capitalism

Microsoft and Google, two of the largest monopolies in the world, have been rivals for almost 20 years. But suddenly, in late April, it announced a surprising agreement. Companies have removed all regulatory complaints against each other globally. Instead of fighting their battles in public courts and commissions, which have agreed to negotiate in private.

This is a gentleman's agreement. The details are secret, but the message from both sides is that the agreement reflects a change in management philosophy. new head of Microsoft Satya Nadella is willing to promote the vision of a dynamic collaboration of Microsoft in collaboration with everyone from Apple to Salesforce.

The most spectacular of these partners is Google, a company that has been considered a great archrival Microsoft.

The wind began to change in September, just after Sundar Pichai became CEO of Google, when the two companies agreed to stop fighting by patents - a first step towards the current agreement. Joint business line is that companies want to compete in products not in court cases.

But this tactic PR mask two much more interesting stories. One is about Microsoft and its desperate search for relevance. The other is in Google, money and power. Both are part of a larger story, very disturbing - a story about how technology companies are busy redrawing the lines around our lives, facing little resistance.

Waste and Fury

No one wants to start a legal battle. Grump, painful and costly, they are diverting enormous resources, often low productive gain. But that in itself does not explain Microsoft's decision to abandon the pending claims regulation against Google in Europe, Brazil and Argentina, as well as cease funding and participation in pressure groups supported for eight years as FairSearch.org and ICOMP, the Initiative for competitive online market. So what do I explain it?

It could be seen as a pragmatic movement. Microsoft benefits exceed even Google, but the report has been in decline for a decade. Meanwhile, since 2012, Apple has surpassed the two combined companies (although recent figures suggest that this momentum could be slower). A number of regulatory investigations into alleged violations of monopoly Google will continue even in the absence of Microsoft - both areas in which Microsoft has filed complaints (Europe, Brazil, Argentina) and the other where he did not like India.

With the withdrawal of Microsoft, it is clear that the other applicants in the fighting - usually small niche Internet business - are legitimate criticism in his own right. But again, we need coordination and resources to sustain serious and succeed in combat competition. Winning, in particular, a large and impressive overall, is a much bigger without a supporter with much money as Microsoft order.

New Microsoft

But there is another possible, a little more crafty, pattern. Microsoft is now facing a very different ecosystem of the company that dominated in the 1990s have to adapt. And it seems to want to do to position themselves in the center of what Satya Nadella described as "intelligent systems".

Explaining this concept Hannover Messe 2016 NADELLA intelligence systems such as feedback loops enabled digital set cloud. They are based on the data stream of people, places and things connected to a network of activities. And they promise unprecedented power to reason, predict and understand.

This is the unbridled utopia large volumes of data. And it is a vision that brings Microsoft Google squarely in the territory. So maybe Microsoft withdraws regulatory battles, because it will not shoot in the foot. For professor emeritus at Harvard Business School Shoshana Zuboff, it becomes the core of the Google-Microsoft agreement.

Zuboff is a leading spokesman for what he calls "the surveillance capitalism" monetizing data on the behavior free from monitoring and sold to entities that have an interest in their future behavior. As explained in the Guardian monitoring capitalism, "Google has discovered. Microsoft came late to this game, but now got into the water. Viewed this way, your agreement with Google is predictable and rational."

And here it is the sinister result of Microsoft's decision to stop needling Google with litigation becomes evident. "A key topic I am writing about capitalism is that monitoring flourished in the lawless area," says Zuboff. "Regulations and laws are their enemies. The democratic control is a threat. Anarchy is so vital to capitalism project tracking" he continues, "that the shared interest of Google and Microsoft on freedom of regulation are greater the narrow competing interests that they have or once thought they had. they can not insist that the public should be regulated by trying to impose regulations on the other. "

Standing in Power

What does this mean for cases pending against Google? For US antitrust experts and Maurice Stucke Grünes Allen, co-authors of a new comprehensive book that examines the depth and extent of the implications of monopolies and platform data warning of an unholy alliance between Zuboff technology giants as Microsoft and Google only accentuates the rigorous application, regulatory action intellectually driven. And when it comes to Google, if the action is in its clear vision.

"The only thing any regime antitrust absolutely must do if we want to be effective, it is to withstand the most powerful companies of the time," says Grunes. "The competition for disposal and is significant."

"The competition authorities in the US and the EU, in the case of Microsoft. 'Brains were taken, resources and continuous and tireless commitment."

However, only Europeans, he argues, seem to have the intellectual leadership to do so in the case of Google. "The failure of the FTC to take action against Google is certainly one of the great failures of all time."

Microsoft and Google new agreement to stop fighting against each other is an interesting move strategic company. But there is a movement accompanied a deeper much stronger game: to collect and take advantage of data - including data about us, our behaviors and interactions. The challenge for regulators and citizens is complex but essential - and has just started.

70-411 Exam Question No 51

Question No 51:

You have a DNS server named Server1. Server1 has a primary zone named contoso.com. Zone Aging/Scavenging is configured for the contoso.com zone. One month ago, an administrator removed a server named Server2 from the network. You discover that a static resource record for Server2 is present in contoso.com. Resource records for decommissioned client computers are removed automatically from contoso.com. You need to ensure that the static resource records for all of the servers are removed automatically from contoso.com. What should you modify?

A. The Expires after value of contoso.com
B. The Record time stamp value of the static resource records
C. The time-to-live (TTL) value of the static resource records
D. The Security settings of the static resource records

Answer: B

70-411 Exam Question No 50

Question No 50:

Your network contains an Active Directory domain named contoso.com. The domain contains a server named Server1 that runs Windows Server 2012 R2. You enable and configure Routing and Remote Access (RRAS) on Server1. You create a user account named User1. You need to ensure that User1 can establish VPN connections to Server1. What should you do?

A. Create a network policy.
B. Create a connection request policy.
C. Add a RADIUS client.
D. Modify the members of the Remote Management Users group.

Answer: A

70-411 Exam Question No 49

Question No 49:

Your network contains an Active Directory domain named contoso.com. All domain controllers run
Windows Server 2012 R2. The domain contains an Edge Server named Server1. Server1 is configured as a DirectAccess server. Server1 has the following settings: 

 You run the Remote Access Setup wizard as shown in the following exhibit. (Click the Exhibit button.)

You need to ensure that client computers on the Internet can establish DirectAccess connections to Server1. Which additional name suffix entry should you add from the Remote Access Setup wizard?

A. A Name Suffix value of dal.contoso.com and a blank DNS Server Address value
B. A Name Suffix value of Server1.contoso.com and a DNS Server Address value of 65.55.37.62
C. A Name Suffix value of dal.contoso.com and a DNS Server Address value of 65.55.37.62
D. A Name Suffix value of Server1.contoso.com and a blank DNS Server Address value

Answer: A

70-411 Exam Question No 48

Question No 48:

You have a failover cluster that contains five nodes. All of the nodes run Windows Server 2012 R2. All of the nodes have BitLocker Drive Encryption (BitLocker) enabled.
You enable BitLocker on a Cluster Shared Volume (CSV). You need to ensure that all of the cluster nodes can access the CSV. Which cmdlet should you run next?

A. Unblock-Tpm
B. Add-BitLockerKeyProtector
C. Remove-BitLockerKeyProtector
D. Enable BitLockerAutoUnlock

Answer: B

70-411 Exam Question No 47

Question No 47:

Your network contains an Active Directory domain named contoso.com. The domain contains a file server named Server1 that runs Windows Server 2012 R2. You view the effective policy settings of Server1 as shown in the exhibit. (Click the Exhibit button.)
 

On Server1, you have a folder named C:\Share1 that is shared as Share1. Share1 contains confidential data. A group named Group1 has full control of the content in Share1.
You need to ensure that an entry is added to the event log whenever a member of Group1 deletes a file in Share1. What should you configure?

A. The Audit File Share setting of Servers GPO
B. The Sharing settings of C:\Share1
C. The Audit File System setting of Servers GPO
D. The Security settings of C:\Share1

Answer: D

Microsoft shows how artificial our intelligence is

When the chatbot Microsoft Tay started tweeting offensive, the response from the company showed us how little we understand about human nature, both less artificial intelligence, writes David glance.
It was a nightmare than a week PR for Microsoft. It started with the head of Microsoft's Xbox division, Phil Spencer, having to apologize for light dancers clothing scantily clad dancers dressed school girls at a party hosted by Microsoft at the Conference of Game Developers (GDC) . He said the dancers who participated in this event "was absolutely not consistent or aligned with our values. This was unequivocally wrong and will not be tolerated."

The matter was handled internally and therefore not known who was responsible and why they might have thought this would be a good idea.

But things were much worse for Microsoft when a call chatterbot Tay started tweeting offensive apparently supporting, anti-feminist and racist views Nazis. The idea was that the artificial intelligence behind Tay could learn from others on Twitter and other social networks and appear as a person of 19 years it means female. What happened, however, is that the experience was kidnapped by a group of people in the (politically incorrect) "pol" notorious 4chan bulletin board and establishing training 8chan Tay say very inappropriate things.

This time it was down to Peter Lee, corporate vice president of Microsoft Research had to say: "We are deeply sorry for tweets offensive and hurtful unintentional Tay, who do not represent what we are or what we represent."

Tay was removed and removed the tweets, but not before some of the most offensive of them were captured and spread even more on the Internet.

Apparently, researchers at Microsoft have thought that, as they had successfully developed an AI chatbot similarly named XiaoIce was being successful execution in China in the social network Weibo, experience with Tay in Twitter Western audiences would follow the same path .

Caroline Sinders, AI interaction designer working on the IBM computer Watson wrote a good explanation of how Tay developers should have foreseen this result and protected against it. There had been no sufficient evidence that the robot and certainly developers no sociological technology skills to understand the variety of online communities and what they would do once the technology was launched in Nature.

The disturbing result was that Peter Tay Lee Microsoft has seen the problem with the "experience" of Tay as technology that could be solved with a simple technology solution. He missed completely the problem was sociological and philosophical, unless addressed in this context, will always result in technology that seems superficially human but always far from true intelligence stop the show.

Chatbots are designed to learn more about how language is built and use this knowledge to create words that are relevant to the context and correct. They are not taught to understand what these words really mean, or to understand the social, moral and ethical context of those words. Tay did not know what a feminist is when he suggested that "everyone must die and burn in hell", which was more than repeat a word building that had entered as parts of phrases that could be reformatted with a high probability of being as it was logical.

It is a testament to the ability of human nature to anthropomorphize technology to jump into something that sounds intelligent to an entity that is really smart. This was the case recently with Google AlphaGo AI software that beat complex human world class player going to play. Comment on this suggested that AlphaGo showed many of the characteristics instead of what he did with human intelligence, which was effective in finding and calculation of winning strategies in the millions of games that had access.

Even the "learning" term applied to bird flu led many, including developers of AI itself to assume wrongly that is equivalent to the learning process that humans pass. This in turn leads to the risk that AI experts as Stuart Russell and Peter Norvig have warned for years that a "learning function of artificial intelligence system that can evolve into a system with unexpected behavior."

Experience with Tay highlighted the lack of discretion of Microsoft developers, provided that the limit of chatbots. It seems that in this case, humans and software could not learn the real lessons of this unfortunate incident.

70-411 Exam Question No 46

Question No 46:

Your network contains an Active Directory domain named contoso.com. The domain contains a virtual machine named Server1 that runs Windows Server 2012 R2 Server1 has a dynamically expanding virtual hard disk that is mounted to drive E. You need to ensure that you can enable BitLocker Drive Encryption (BitLocker) on drive E. Which command should you run?

A. Manage-bde -protectors -add c: -startup e:
B. Manage-bde -lock e:
C. Manage-bde -protectors -add e: -startupkey c:
D. Manage-bde -on e:

Answer: D

70-411 Exam Question No 45

Question No 45:

Your network contains an Active Directory domain named contoso.com. The domain contains a read-only domain controller (RODC) named R0DC1. You create a global group named RODC_Admins. You need to provide the members of RODC_Admins with the ability to manage the hardware and the software on R0DC1. The solution must not provide RODC_Admins with the ability to manage Active Directory objects. What should you do?

A. From Active Directory Sites and Services, run the Delegation of Control Wizard.
B. From a command prompt, run the dsadd computer command.
C. From Active Directory Site and Services, configure the Security settings of the R0DC1 server object.
D. From a command prompt, run the dsmgmt local roles command.

Answer: D

70-411 Exam Question No 44

Question No 44:

Your network contains an Active Directory domain named contoso.com. The domain contains a domain controller named DC1. You run ntdsutil as shown in the exhibit. (Click the Exhibit button.)

You need to ensure that you can access the contents of the mounted snapshot.
What should you do?

A. From the snapshot context of ntdsutil, run activate instance "NTDS".
B. From a command prompt, run dsamain.exe -dbpathc:\$snap_201204131056_volumec$\windows\ntds\ntds. dit -Idapport 389.
C. From the snapshot context of ntdsutil, run mount {79f94f82-5926-4f44-8af0-2f56d827a57d}.
D. From a command prompt, run dsamain.exe -dbpath
c:\$snap_201204131056_volumec$\windows\ntds\ntds. dit -Idapport 33389.

Answer: D

70-411 Exam Question No 43

Question No 43:

You have a server named Server1 that runs Windows Server 2012 R2. Server1 has the File Server
Resource Manager role service installed. Server1 has a folder named Folder1 that is used by the human resources department. You need to ensure that an email notification is sent immediately to the human resources manager when a user copies an audio file or a video file to Folder1.
What should you configure on Server1?

A. A storage report task
B. A file screen exception
C. A file screen
D. A file group

Answer: C

Microsoft Starts Advertising Inside Windows 10

Welcome to what is likely to become another topic of conversation red hot Windows 10 Microsoft MSFT -1.54% began to display ads on the "free" Windows 10. But do not worry, there is good news ...

First taken by ExtremeTech (but already widely spread everywhere), Windows 10 started to advertise your promotion Tomb Raider on your screen lock for a limited number of users. One might consider when it starts or when the user is logged in and out of your computer.

Needless to say, the reaction was much jumping on Microsoft throat about it. It was labeled as evidence of how Microsoft will deliver users "for free upgrade in the long term and symptomatic of a hellish future when Windows 10 users will face pop-up ads first open the Word, the third time they open Internet Explorer, etc., etc.

The good news is that there is no need to worry about all that, yet.

First, Microsoft indicated its intention to use the screen lock "personal recommendations" in an interview with The Verge again in July 2015 and Tomb Raider is not even the first. Subordinates effectively advertise on Windows 10 Lockscreens a small number of users in January.

Second, there is no suggestion at this time Microsoft has been provided for this promotion and is simply a way to store own flag Microsoft Windows. Third, the ads can easily disable it as follows:

•  "Settings"  Open then 'Customize'
•  "Screen lock"  Open
•   Changing "background" to a personal selection rather than "point of Windows'
•   Switch 'Get fun facts, tips, tricks and more on the lock screen' Off

Of course, although this is not a serious matter at this point, spewing a lot of issues to discuss in the future: If ads actually be enabled by default? Will users still be able to turn them off? If ads available for users who pay for Windows 10 after the expiration of the free update in July? (Last day period will last forever?)

It is also interesting to note Windows Store ads have already appeared in Windows 10. Back elsewhere 'app suggestions October appeared in the Start menu. But again, they could be deactivated quickly and Microsoft told the Inquirer:

"We will continue to offer Windows ADS applications in Windows 10. Beyond this, we currently have no plans to advertise on Windows 10 ... lock and start the content is programmed by Microsoft to help customers to learn and discover new features and applications to enhance the experience of Windows 10, application providers do not pay to be submitted ".

All very well.

But as is often the case with Microsoft at this time, the company could do a better job of spelling of these things to their users beforehand with pop-up Windows notifications and instead dissipate the inevitable confusion and concern with messages and Speaking to the media after the blog.

Until then, we will meet with a problem: a tremendously ambitious system and potentially game-changing operating unnecessarily continues to leave its user base from mainstream in the dark.

70-411 Exam Question No 42

Question No 42:

Your network contains an Active Directory domain named contoso.com. The domain contains five servers. The servers are configured as shown in the following table.

All desktop computers in contoso.com run Windows 8 and are configured to use BitLocker Drive Encryption (BitLocker) on all local disk drives.

You need to deploy the Network Unlock feature. The solution must minimize the number of features and server roles installed on the network. To which server should you deploy the feature?

A. Server1
B. Server2
C. Server3
D. Server4
E. Server5

Answer: E
 

Microsoft Hoses Down Windows Server Hardware Support Change Fears

Microsoft has published an interesting post in which he said that made no hardware support for Windows Server changes.

Reg hang! Why do you report a post that says nothing is changing?

The answer, dear readers, is that Microsoft announced in January that it is not compatible with Windows 7 and 8 on the new processors. The effect of this change is that one-on-genealogical Windows 10 users

Users do not respond well to this edict reasonable place, because it deprives them of their choice.

El Reg suspects that some have questioned whether Microsoft plans to do the same with the Windows server, the previous message will begin by stating that "In recent weeks, the Windows Server received a number of requests information regarding certification and support for certain hardware platforms. "

Microsoft's answer is nothing changes. Or, as the Post says, "... Windows Server 2012 and 2012 R2 will support the extended 01/10/2018. Our policy will allow new bidding system for Windows Server 2012 and 2012 R2 continue to this day, including next family of Intel Xeon E3 (Skylake) ".

In other words, Windows Server users are not led to new hardware, or Windows Server 2016 Azure.

And a good job too, because asking users to play with their PC fleets means a lot of work. Asking users to play with their fleets imposes server business stop and very expensive projects on the clients. Ergo this re-reassuring kind of strange, but also, according to Microsoft.

Microsoft probably has himself to blame for the need to issue such a position. Changes in hardware support Windows are openly cynical. Satya Nadella to Microsoft may be embracing Linux and cloud with enthusiasm and sincerity, but Microsoft is still absolutely not afraid to PC makers and musculature, through them, users when it suits their strategy. So while nothing has changed, for now,

Windows Server users probably know the time will come when Microsoft makes it clear that the upgrade will be all-but-required

70-411 Exam Question No 41

Question No 41:

Your network contains an Active Directory forest named contoso.com.
The domain contains three servers. The servers are configured as shown in the following table.

 You need to identify which server role must be deployed to the network to support the planned
implementation. Which role should you identify?

A. Network Policy and Access Services
B. Volume Activation Services
C. Windows Deployment Services
D. Active Directory Rights Management Services

Answer: C

Microsoft still working with HTC on Windows 10 Mobile handsets

HTC is preparing to launch a new generation of Android smartphones, but considering the current problems of the company really expected to release a mobile phone from Windows 10.

With an increasing emphasis on the OEM of Microsoft, but the company, which has a long relationship with Windows Mobile, is an important portfolio gap Microsoft, and a recent job, a gap that Microsoft is working is there for fill in.

In a workstation 29 December 2015 in search of a director of account management in Taipei, Microsoft states:

"The team is looking for a Director of Account Management, based in Taipei, Taiwan to inform the director of sales of the device in Shenzhen, China. In this global role, the director is the responsible development of this dynamic and rapid growth of ecosystems and partnerships with business groups and teams canal while sharing extensive knowledge and strategic vision. ecosystem contains our partners worldwide Taiwan ODM 2 ECS, Uniwill, shuttle, in Clevo level 2 is more DHS and why this person will manage. in addition, this person will lead all aspects of the interaction of sales and business development with HTC, one of our best partners 3rd party accounts handset.

AM will be the HTC strong emphasis on the development of a coordinated strategy with GSO, marketing and OEM. impact should be conducted through the upper levels of the administration up to and including the head of the executive level in order to build a portfolio of products that include scenarios specific user around our windows 10 Mobile and Microsoft combined with HTC devices, applications and services. "

If this effort will actually lead to a combined, given the current problems of HTC, remains to be seen, but like most, I think Microsoft is pushing its OEM program with a bit of money as an incentive, which may be of interest to the Taiwanese company under siege.

The workstation also clear Microsoft continues its OEM program with many Chinese OEM / ODM, suggesting that we have seen the beginning of a profusion of windows 3rd party manifestos phones next year.

70-411 Exam Question No 40

Question No 40:

You have a server named Server 1. You enable BitLocker Drive Encryption (BitLocker) on Server 1. You need to change the password for the Trusted Platform Module (TPM) chip. What should you run on Server1?

A. Manage-bde.exe
B. Set-TpmOwnerAuth
C. Bdehdcfg.exe
D. Tpmvscmgr.exe

Answer: B

Is Microsoft Corporation About to Kill One of Its Major Brands?

During the last four years, "Lumia" was synonymous with Windows Phone. Former Finnish mobile phone giant Nokia (NYSE: NOK) has set the mark for its smartphones with Windows in late 2011, before finally passing the property in 2013 Microsoft deal, which saw the Windows maker acquires the phone business Nokia mobile all.

Now he could be about to disappear.

Last month, it reported that Microsoft Windows plant plans to launch a smartphone end of the Lumia brand - the mid-range Lumia 650. Although the report has not been confirmed, it would not be surprising.

The success - or failure - of Lumia

Nokia Lumia created the brand to differentiate its smartphones with Windows from their phones Asha-fed and Symbian. Between 2011 and 2013, Nokia launched Lumia dozens of models in a variety of prices - expensive jewelry, including the Lumia 920, and bids as the Lumia 520.

In a few years, Nokia has risen to dominate the phone market Windows. In November 2013, Nokia accounted for 90% of the user base of Windows Phone, according to a report AdDuplex. The lack of enthusiasm for the platform to other mobile phone manufacturers has obviously played a role, but the domination of Lumia can not be underestimated.

Microsoft bid to acquire mobile phone business Nokia finally closed in April 2014. Since then, Microsoft has continued to manufacture and sell under the brand Windows phones Lumia - apparently what to do, given its dominant position windows Phone. In fact, there is reason to believe that consumers know better than them Lumia Windows Phone - Google Trends data shows increasing interest in research Lumia Windows Phone and other leading brand Microsoft, Surface systems.

However, Microsoft has not been very successful. Windows Phone has never been particularly popular, but limited popularity, which has declined in recent quarters. During the third quarter of 2013, Windows Phone accounted for 3.6% of smartphones shipped worldwide, according to IDC. That fell to less than 2% in the third quarter last year. Microsoft has removed most of the acquisition of Nokia last summer, and was intentionally revised its range of smartphones in recent months.

Last quarter, the turnover of the Microsoft phones reduced by 49% on an annual basis at constant currency. Slide in profits Microsoft attributed the decline to "change in strategy announced in July 2015".

The phone's surface?

End Lumia however, it can not mean the end of Windows Phone ,. Microsoft could consolidate their efforts smartphone under its brand surface instead. Rumors of a "surface of the phone" have been around for months. They took a new steam late last month, when a poster on Reddit found surfacephone.com redirected to the page of the general area of ​​Microsoft.

The area remains a modest contribution to the finances of Microsoft, but has grown in recent quarters. Last quarter, the devices in the area generated $ 1.35 billion, more than 20% on an annual basis. With the Pro 4 and the book of Surface Surface, Microsoft is trying to establish a premium brand, innovative devices Windows.

However, the surface of the phone to be confirmed - the Lumia 650 is much more real. Prolific and reliable filter technology Evan Blass published a similar photo of early smartphone.

It may represent the end of a brand. Lumia interruption fit into the context of Microsoft's recent moves. Windows Phone more or less irrelevant, the death of Lumia should have almost no effect on Microsoft investors - beyond being a sad reminder of his failure to take advantage of mobile computing.

70-411 Exam Question No 39

Question No 39:

Your company has a main office and two branch offices. The main office is located in Seattle. The two branch offices are located in Montreal and Miami. Each office is configured as an Active Directory site. The network contains an Active Directory domain named contoso.com. Network traffic is not routed between the Montreal office and the Miami office. You implement a Distributed File System (DFS) namespace named \\contoso.com\public. The namespace contains a folder named Folder1. Folder1 has a folder target in each office. You need to configure DFS to
ensure that users in the branch offices only receive referrals to the target in their respective office or to the target in the main office. Which two actions should you perform? (Each correct answer presents part of the solution. (Choose two.)

A. Set the Ordering method of \\contoso.com\public to Random order.
B. Set the Advanced properties of the folder target in the Seattle office to Last among all targets.
C. Set the Advanced properties of the folder target in the Seattle office to First among targets of equal cost.
D. Set the Ordering method of \\contoso.com\public to Exclude targets outside of the client's site.
E. Set the Advanced properties of the folder target in the Seattle office to Last among targets of equal cost.
F. Set the Ordering method of \\contoso.com\public to Lowest cost.

Answer: C, D

Microsoft Plumbs Ocean’s Depths to Test Underwater Data Center

Taking a page from Jules Verne, Microsoft researchers believe that the future of data centers may be under the sea.

Microsoft has tested a prototype independent data center that can run hundreds of feet below the ocean surface, removing one of the most expensive problems in the technology industry: Bill air conditioning.

Data centers today, with all the power of streaming video to social networks and e-mail, containing thousands of servers that generate a lot of heat. When there is excess heat, noise servers.

Install the wheel into the cold ocean water could solve the problem. You can also respond to the increasing demand exponentially world of computing power, because Microsoft plans to link the system with either a turbine or a system of tidal power to produce electricity.

The effort, code-named Project Natick, could result in lines giant steel tubes connected by fiber optic cables placed on the seabed. Another possibility would be to suspend jelly beans into containers below the surface to catch with the ocean current turbines that generate electricity.

"When I heard this I thought, water ... electricity, why do that? '" Said Ben Cutler, a designer of Microsoft IT, which is one of the engineers working on the system Natick projects. "But think about it, it actually makes a lot of sense."

Such radical idea might encounter obstacles, including environmental concerns and unforeseen glitches. But researchers at Microsoft believe that mass production of the capsules, which could reduce the new data center deployment time two years now on earth for only 90 days, providing huge cost advantage.

Submarines server containers could also help make Web services work faster. Much of the world's population now lives in urban centers, near the sea, but far from the data center usually built in places off the beaten track with lots of space. The ability to place the power near the computer users reduces the delay or latency, experienced people, which is a big problem for Web users.

"For years, the major cloud providers have been looking for sites in the world, not only for green energy, but also benefit the environment," said Larry Smarr, a specialist in physical and computer scientist who is director of California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology at the University of California, San Diego.

Driven by technologies as diverse as digital entertainment and the rapid arrival of the so-called Internet of things, the demand for centralized computing has grown exponentially. Microsoft manages more than 100 data centers worldwide and is the addition at a rapid pace. The company spent more than $ 15 million in a system of global data center that now offers more than 200 online services.

In 2014, engineers in Microsoft's research arm known as new experiences and technologies, or next door, began to think about a new approach to greatly accelerate the process of adding new power to supposedly cloud computing systems.

"When you pull out your smartphone, you think you used this little miracle computer, but actually using more than 100 computers in this thing called the cloud," said Peter Lee, vice president of Microsoft Business Research and the following organization. "And then you multiply that by billions of people, and that's just an enormous amount of computer work."

The company recently completed a trial of 105 days of a steel capsule - eight feet in diameter - that stood 30 feet underwater in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of central California, near San Luis Obispo. Controlled from their offices here on the campus of Microsoft, the trial was more successful than expected.

The researchers had worried about hardware failures and leaks. The subsea system was equipped with 100 different sensors to measure pressure, humidity, movement and other conditions to better understand how to work in an environment where it is not possible to send a repairman in the middle of the night.

The delayed system. This led engineers to extend the time to experiment and even run both projects commercial data processing service in Microsoft Azure cloud.

The research group designing a submarine system that will be three times larger began. It will be built in partnership with a developer who has not yet chosen an alternative energy system based on the ocean. Microsoft engineers said they were awaiting a new trial to begin next year, perhaps near Florida or northern Europe, where large energy projects of the ocean current.

The first prototype, affectionately called Leona Philpot - a character from the game series Halo Microsoft - was returned, partly covered with barnacles, the company's corporate campus here.

There is a large white steel pipe covered with heat exchangers, with its ends closed by metal plates and screws large. Within a single data center rack computing bathing in the nitrogen pressure to effectively remove heat from the calculation chips while the system was tested on the ocean floor.

The idea for the wine submarine system research work written in 2014 by several employees of Microsoft data centers, including one with experience in a Navy submarine.

Norman A. Whitaker, general manager of special projects at Microsoft Research and former deputy director of DARPA in the Pentagon, or Darpa, said that the concept of server underwater is an example of what DARPA scientists call "refactoring" or completely rethink the way something that has traditionally been achieved.

Although large submarine pipe computing seems unlikely, the project could lead to other innovations, he said. For example, the new submarines capsules are designed to be left in place without maintenance for as long as five years. This means that the servers within the same must be robust enough to last as long without repairs.

It would be a stretch for most servers, but will have to improve to work in underwater capsule - some Microsoft engineers say they are working.

Also they are rethinking the alignment of physical data centers. Nowadays, servers are placed in racks so that they can be maintained by humans. But they do not require maintenance, many parts are there to help human interaction can be removed, Whitaker said.

"The idea is that refactoring tickles a lot of things at once," he said.

In the first experiment, researchers at Microsoft, said he studied the impact of its containers it could have on the fragile underwater environments. They used acoustic sensors to determine if the drives spinning and fans inside the steel container were heard in the surrounding water. What they found is that the snapping shrimp swimming with the system drowned out the noise created by the container.

One aspect of the project that the most obvious of electricity harvest seawater circulation potential. This could mean that there is a new energy is added to the sea and, therefore, n 'There is no heating at all, the researchers said. In his first experience, Microsoft engineers said they had measured a "very" small amount of local heating of the capsule.

"We measure unheated marine beyond a few inches of the ship means," said Dr. Lee.