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In this Ask the Admin, I look at what you need to know before connecting a high resolution 4K display to a notebook.

Are you curious about what an Azure App Service plan is, exactly? In this article we’ll dive into the essence and capabilities of an App Service plan.

Office 365 Message Encryption (OME) now offers an advanced set of features to Office 365 E5 tenants. You can have messages with specific branding delivered to different domains. Advanced OME also includes message revocation. Branding is a feature that will appeal to a limited set of tenants, but it would be nice if revocation was available to a wider set of Office 365 tenants.

Each month Microsoft adds new features and updates existing products for Azure, here’s the updates you need to know about for June.

Ransomware attacks are on the rise and as many cities have recently learned, if you don’t have an air-gapped backup, you may not be protected.

Puppet Bolt tasks are scripts that you can run on Linux or Windows systems. A task contains a script, completely unmodified, written in any language supported by the remote system on which the task will run.

On this edition of the Enterprise Dish, we dive into demystifying the complexity of Windows update error messages, how to know if your MSP is on-top of all the changes they are pushing down to your environment, and a little bit about classic bikes.

You can add photos to Azure Active Directory guest accounts and have Office 365 apps display those photos. But it’s a lot of work to track down suitable photos for individual guests. If you want to change the default two-initial icon displayed by Office 365, you can use PowerShell to update all guest accounts with a photo. Here’s how I handled the problem.

Understanding how Azure App Services works behind the curtain is important if you want to make the most of the App Service resources.

PowerShell is a great way of automating common administrative Office 365 operations. That is, if you know what module to use and how to use the cmdlets in that module. Unfortunately things are a bit of a mess with too many modules and inconsistent behavior in areas like error handling. With so many development groups working on Office 365, the PowerShell situation might be inevitable, but it needs cleaning up.