Author: Brad Sams

Outlook for Windows is introducing an option to allow users to save some settings in the Microsoft 365 cloud.

This month there is lots of new stuff and I am not even sure what my favorite is. Outlook reading to me, Power Apps letting me see the world differently, SharePoint being everywhere and nowhere at the same time, a bonus tip, and more. How about instead of me writing something clever you just dive… Read More

On this edition of the Enterprise Dish, how you can build a home lab for less, Hyper-V vs VMware, and a new GUI for WSL

Microsoft’s Surface Book 3 represents the ‘best of the best’ of the Surface family. It has the most powerful CPU/GPU combo, it can be a tablet or a laptop, supports up to 32GB of RAM and is a machine designed for work. Technically, it’s designed for work and play, with both consumer-grade and professional-grade GPU… Read More

On this edition of the Enterprise Dish, Microsoft announced a number of key updates to Teams, the future of Office 365, and a lot more. You can find Dux on Twitter, attend ShiftHappens, and dig into sensitivity labels here. 

 In this blockbuster episode, Stephen and Paul are joined by Microsoft director Jeremy Chapman to discuss how organizations can effectively transition to remote work without compromising control. Transcript: Paul Thurrott (00:01): Welcome back everyone to the Microsoft 365 Knowledge Series. I'm Paul Thurrott, I'm here as usual with Stephen Rose, Senior Product Marketing Manager… Read More

Microsoft has announced today that Windows 10, version 2004 is now generally available

Around the globe, IT Pros are facing unprecedented challenges in their environments. From supporting hundreds, if not thousands, of newly-remote workers, handling a significant increase in VPN connections or trying to backup data that is outside the firewall – for many of us, we are in uncharted waters. At Petri, our mission is to create… Read More

It’s not too often that you realize an application that you are using frequently is missing some basic functionality. Especially with Teams, an application that is used by more than 75 million people every single day. But that’s the case with the search inside of Teams. While you can search from the top of the app… Read More

MSIX is a new installer technology for Windows that first appeared in Windows 10 version 1809 and it was later backported to Windows 10 versions 1709 and 1803. It replaces Windows Installer (MSI) and the APPX packaging format previously used for Store apps. MSIX works with all Win32, WPF, Windows Forms, and Universal Windows Platform… Read More

One of the big feature updates coming to Teams that many have been waiting for is the ability to chat with Skype contacts inside the Teams application. Microsoft stated that this feature would be available by the end of April but that timeline has come and gone. The company has posted a new message to its admin center and… Read More

On this edition of the Enterprise Dish, Brad and Aaron cover the highlights of the Windows announcements made at Build and how they will likely impact the direction of Windows. You can find Aaron on Twitter, learn more about SmartDeploy, and for educational customers, take advantage of the free SmartDeploy offer this summer. 

If you read the headline and thought that this was some sort of an elaborate joke, this is not a drill. After years of developers asking Microsoft to build a package manager into Windows, those requests are finally being answered. Announced at Build 2020, the company is releasing a preview of the Windows Package Manager.… Read More

 Transcript posted below. We’re doing a twice-monthly interview show on Petri.com that is dedicated to covering topics of interest to our tech-professional audience. We have branded this show “MJFChat.” In my role as Petri’s Community Magnate, I will be interviewing a variety of IT-savvy technology folks. Some of these will be Petri contributors; some… Read More

Microsoft has a dream, a dream that developers will build apps for all of its platforms with a single base of code. The company, for years, pitched the write once, run anywhere, idea to developers of Windows applications but the dream never materialized in a way that was widely adopted. The most notable attempt at… Read More