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As we head towards Ignite, October had a bunch of Azure announcements but there will be even more next month.

Microsoft’s larger Surface Laptop 3 is branching out to use an AMD chip but you may want the business version instead.

PowerShell on its own is a robust and versatile language that can help you accomplish any task at hand. Combine it with the ability to run remotely on other computers and it becomes unparalleled as a scripting language

Microsoft started using machine learning (ML) to manage the rollout of Windows 10 feature updates with the Windows 10 April 2018 Update (version 1803). In a new blog post by Microsoft’s Archana Ramesh and Michael Stephenson, both data scientists for Microsoft Cloud and AI, the company outlines improvements made since then.

Microsoft’s FindTime service helps Office 365 users find the right time to schedule a meeting with people inside and outside their tenant. It’s an underappreciated gem. And the good news is that an even better service called Calendar.Help is on the way. Well, it’s better if you like asking Cortana to find the right meeting dates for you rather than the more-hands on approach taken by FindTime. Whichever way you cut it, help is always appreciated when setting up meetings, so it’s nice that these tools are available.

While definitely necessary, making and maintaining disaster recovery (DR) plans is definitely not one of the favorite tasks for IT personnel. DR planning is complex, time-consuming, and it involves the resources of a number of both IT and non-IT related personnel. In addition, implementing DR plans isn’t cheap.

In a rather odd decision, Microsoft is launching self-service purchases for Office 365 tenant users who want to use the Power Platform without consulting an administrator. Another troubling sign is the way that the MailItemsAccessed audit event has been packaged into a new Microsoft 365 Audit feature. Tenants expected to see this audit event last January after Microsoft announced it was coming. Its subsequent disappearance was a mystery until now.

In today’s Ask the Admin, I look in more detail at how Reset this PC actually works and the new cloud download feature that is coming in Windows 10 20H1.

PowerShell jobs are an integral part of PowerShell. This handy feature allows administrators to run commands asynchronously. Asynchronous commands allow for parallel execution cutting down on time and fully leveraging compute power.

How to set up notifications in Windows 10 to maximize productivity while not missing important tasks and messages.