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Historically when integrating with Microsoft Teams voice you would need to work with Microsoft to migrate your own telephone numbers to Microsoft and use their calling plans.  The other option is to create a direct route, implement your own session boarder controller (SBC) or a hosting provider session boarder controller and then link this to…

Teams is one of the fastest growing products Microsoft has ever released, so it shouldn’t come as a surprise that there was a big focus on Teams at the November edition of Ignite. In this article, I’m going to cover all the important news in brief. New Microsoft Teams chat features Microsoft Teams chat recently…

Microsoft 365 is the most widely used cloud application for business and it has several different technologies that are designed to protect your data. Let’s take a closer look at Microsoft 365’s built-in data protection technologies and see what steps you might need to take for your own complete data protection needs. Sponsored: Afi.ai provides a modern…

At its Ignite conference yesterday, Microsoft announced that some parts of its Fluid Framework are being rebranded as Microsoft Loop. Or at least some parts of it. First announced in 2019, the Fluid Framework provides users with what Microsoft describes as ‘atomic units of productivity’ that can be shared and worked on independently of a…

Ignite Hero The second installment of Microsoft Ignite November 2021 kicks off today, November 2nd, at 4.15 CET with the opening keynote by Satya Nadella. The conference runs through to November 4th. Many of the sessions can be watched on-demand after the event but not all of them. In this article, I’m going to cut…

Lots to cover this month! So, let’s get started with what’s new with Power Platform in October 2021. Release wave 2 has been rolling out, but Microsoft has released some updates above and beyond the release wave. Performance improvements, quality of life improvements, and as always, new Power Automate connectors have been introduced this month….

Windows 11 is now generally available, there are already fixes for a long list of bugs and performance issues with AMD processors, and Android apps come to users in the Windows 11 Beta Channel. Plus, there’s much more of what’s new with Windows in October 2021, so let’s get started! Windows 11 is now generally…

One of the most important infrastructure features Microsoft released with the recent Windows Server 2022 is HTTP/3. Since hitting the ‘General Availability’ milestone this past September, the Windows Server team has partnered with the Microsoft 365 team in starting a phased upgrade of the front-end Exchange Online servers with Windows Server 2022. Microsoft started with…

In this quick guide, I’m going to show you how to download the Windows 11 ISO image file, which you can use to install Windows 11 in a virtual machine (VM), perform a Windows 11 upgrade from Windows 10, or use to create your own installation media. If you want to install Windows 11 in…

In this article, I’m going to describe how to use Microsoft 365 Defender Threat Analytics to improve security in your organization. Over three Petri articles, we’ve dived into what Microsoft Defender for Endpoint (MDE) is, how you can migrate to it, and how it should be configured. Part 1: Understanding Microsoft Defender for Endpoint and…

With the rise in remote workers the risk of ransomware is higher than it has ever been before. By now most people know that ransomware is a type of malware extortion scheme that typically encrypts files and folders preventing access to critical data or sometimes it can also be used to steal sensitive data. After…

At an event on Oct 18th, 2021, Apple announced new 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro notebooks, sporting updated M1 processors, the M1 Pro and M1 Max respectively. Released earlier in 2021, the 3-inch MacBook Air and 13-inch MacBook Pros use the first generation of Apple’s M1 chip. At the time of launch, the original M1…