Brad Sams

Petri’s GET-IT: Teams 1-Day virtual conference is a full day of free learning dedicated to deep technical Microsoft Teams content aimed at accelerating the adoption, collaboration, and usage of the platform. Throughout the day you will hear from Microsoft MVPs and industry experts about how to take full advantage of Teams and dive deep into…

Back in the fall of 2019, Microsoft held a Surface event that will likely go down in history as one of the most ambitious announcements from the company. At the keynote, Microsoft unveiled three new products that were not only completely new for the company but also pushed them in a bold new direction. The…

Trends come and go but protecting your data and having the ability to easily restore items efficiently is a part of your business that can mean the difference between disaster and mild-hiccup. As we navigate the pandemic and employees bounce between home and work, data is more ‘in-flight’ than ever before. If you are looking…

If you spend five minutes listening to Microsoft talk about its cloud services, one of the key talking points is always about how it has the most data center regions around the globe. The company has invested billions to create local-redundant cloud operations in major economies and today, Microsoft has announced that it is taking…

While you may have fond memories of Flash from the games that ran in the browser, as the web matured, Flash did not. The technology evolved from being a tool used to build interactive components on the web to a significant security vulnerability. Microsoft has announced that starting in July, KB4577586 (the update to remove…

Microsoft’s OneDrive document sync and storage service is the backbone for many users’ and keeping data synced across devices is the primary feature of this tool. To put it simply, put your content in OneDrive and it will be available on nearly any type of device that you will use for productivity purposes. But from…

This week, Microsoft reported earnings for the first quarter of the year, and to say that they had a healthy quarter would be underselling the company’s performance. But that growth was the result of years of hard work and bets on the future that are starting to pay off. As we have seen a couple…

Microsoft has released their Q3 earnings release and the company posted big results yet again. It’s clear that the company is one of the big winners in the pandemic-induced digital transformational shift and Microsoft says that there are not any signs of slowing down. One of the many products that performed well for Microsoft during…

It’s that time of the quarter again where Microsoft has released their earnings. For calendar year Q1, fiscal year Q3, Microsoft reported $41.7 billion in revenue, up 19% year over year, with net income of $15.5 billion. Microsoft has once again reported strong earnings and is stating that the digital adoption curves that began last…

For years, the Surface brand has been about pushing boundaries of what’s possible in the PC space to take the ordinary, and attempt to build the extraordinary. From devices like the Surface Pro that defined the brand to hardware like the Surface Book and Studio, Microsoft, on occasion, will push the design elements of the…

Earlier this year, Microsoft announced that they had planned to retire the top senders and recipient report from Microsoft Defender for Office 365. While I do not know the exact thought process Microsoft went through when making this decision, they clearly didn’t anticipate the widespread backlash from its users. And it sounds like the feedback…

Last year, at Build 2020, Microsoft said that it was working on bringing Linux apps to Windows 10 with GUI support. Windows 10 has supported various Linux features and functionality with its subsystem for Linux for a couple of years but missing from the toolset was the ability to use apps that required a GUI….