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Last March, at Ignite, Microsoft gave a preview of the new powerful and customizable experience. Starting on June 1st, they are starting to roll it out as a toggle to First Release customers.

If you are aiming for a roll-your-own approach to creating a backup of your data in Microsoft 365, the options are not great for a build-your-own solution. However, when it comes to the configuration of your tenant, there are good options. Even if you’ve bought a backup product for Microsoft 365 or are relying on…

Location and mapping are vital aspects of many mobile applications. However, developers face significant barriers to integrating location functionality into their applications. Integrating location services with your other mobile and web services can be difficult and time-consuming. Plus, there are issues around cost, privacy and security. First announced as a preview back in December 2020,…

As we start the new way of working in the second half of 2021, whether it’s back into the office or working hybrid, one aspect we often see left behind are your meeting spaces. As organizations come back into the office, meeting rooms will no longer meet their collaborative requirements. We often see when people…

Petri’s GET-IT: PowerShell 1-Day virtual conference is a full day of free learning dedicated to technical PowerShell content aimed at making you more efficient at managing your users and environment. Throughout the day you will hear from Microsoft MVPs and industry experts about how to take full advantage of PowerShell and dive deep into the…

For years, Microsoft has been pitching Office 365 and eventually Microsoft 365 as the premier productivity suite for individuals and corporations. The suite of tools provides robust solutions for creating, documenting, controlling, and securing corporate content but one of the company’s own apps has been on the outside looking in from the basic SKUs. Visio,…

One of the benefits of having all of your productivity data in one platform is that it can be indexed and discoverable through a single context window. In Microsoft 365, the company is using search as a tool to help you find your information but also reach across your company’s vast pools of content to…

Microsoft is reporting in a recent technical article that weekly meetings have increased by 148% in the past year since our work environments have become transfigured. The more trying aspect is the fact that we are spending between 6 and 29 (!) minutes scheduling those meetings. And considering the company wants to help you reduce…

OK, quick: How many Microsoft 365 services and apps are available to you and your users to help manage their work? Don’t worry, it’s a trick question, in the realm of having to ask, “What quarter are we in?” That’s because Microsoft is semi-admitting that they’ve released some newer tools over the past year or…

As Microsoft rounds out its fiscal year, which officially ends on June 30th, the company is making a few last-minute changes before the new year begins in July. Specifically, Microsoft is changing the name of Windows Virtual Desktop to Azure Virtual Desktop. The naming update makes a bit of sense as the company is looking…

If you are in the market for a new notebook or PC, there are two choices consumers have in Windows 10 SKU: Home and Pro. You might be purchasing a device for your own business or buying one to use with your company’s “Bring Your Own Device” (BYOD) program. In the case of the latter,…

This past May 2021, Amazon announced the general availability of Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) Anywhere.  While most organizations are looking to run their containerized workloads in the cloud, there are circumstances where they might also want to run them on-premise. That can create problems because managing your container workloads in the cloud and on-premise…