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If you have been hanging around the Petri neighborhood, you might be mistaken to think that PowerShell 7 is already available. But up until today, it was in preview.

While they definitely work together to provide data protection, backup and disaster recovery (DR) are not the same thing. A number of people, especially in smaller and medium-sized businesses, mistakenly think that just doing backups is enough to cover their DR requirements.

A Forrester Research study sponsored by Microsoft concludes that the deployment of Outlook Mobile brings big benefits for organizations. Given the funding source, the outcome is hardly surprising. But like with all similar reports, the important thing is to view the findings through the lens of your organization to understand the good points and discard the marketing messages. In a nutshell, all your need to understand is that Outlook mobile is the best mobile email client for Exchange Online.

I did think about calling this the typo edition – I just bought a Microsoft Sculpt ergonomic keyboard and it might be preventing physical strain but my mental state as a result of the change is a whole other matter.

Microsoft is working to address this market by adding functionality to its popular Teams application to enhance workflows for all types of workplace scenarios. The company is also building hardware, such as the Surface Go, to help bring low-cost, high quality, interactions to the Firstline worker.

SharePoint Online document libraries keep 500 versions of files by default. The minimum recommended by Microsoft is 100. But why are so many versions kept? The reason is that it leads to better recoverability and underpins features like AutoSave and co-authoring. You might be tempted to reduce the number of versions, but why? I can’t come up with a good answer.

PowerShell 7 has introduced a number of new abilities for the language. One of those abilities is the oft-requested pipeline chain operator. The PowerShell pipeline is a cornerstone of the language. Easily passing entire objects from one command to another is exceptionally useful.

How to configure Windows for the best experience when using an external monitor and how to reset the graphics stack without restarting Windows.

How to configure Windows Server DNS to support identical internal and external Exchange Server HTTPS namespaces.

The 2020 RSA is taking place next week but Microsoft is announcing the general availability of several services ahead of the event.