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Microsoft Teams has grown massively in the last 12 months, growing from 44 million active users in April 2020 to over 145 Million users in April 2021. But the business world doesn’t stop; mergers, acquisitions, divestitures is part of the everyday challenge for the IT Pro. Voice and how we use voice in Microsoft Teams…

In this article, I will look at both Microsoft’s Windows Update provider for PowerShell in Windows Server 2019. And I’ll show you how to use the third-party PSWindowsUpdate PowerShell module that most system administrators still prefer to use. Microsoft’s Windows Update PowerShell provider Microsoft’s Windows Update PowerShell provider (WindowsUpdateProvider) comes preinstalled in Windows Server 2019…

In the world of public companies, there are major milestones like going public and stock price splits. For Microsoft, there is going public, hitting a valuation of 1 trillion dollars and today, hitting 2 trillion dollars. Microsoft’s growth during 2020 was driven by a massive movement to remote work for nearly every major corporation. The…

Earlier this year, Microsoft announced that they would be enabling a new way to join Teams meetings that didn’t use links. Unfortunately, the feature is not only delayed but the company is not providing a timeline for when it will arrive. In an updated message, MC248395, Microsoft says that they are evaluating feedback and are…

The technology that underpins Known Issue Rollback first appeared in Windows 10 version 2004. Known Issue Rollback, or KIR for short, lets Microsoft and IT administrators quickly roll back non-security fixes that are causing functionality issues in Windows. Known Issue Rollback is designed to help Microsoft and organizations keep Windows devices secure but make sure…

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Continuing my mini-series on providing IT Pros valuable assistance and guides moving their workloads, roles, and Server-based applications to Windows Server 2022, here is my guide to upgrading, in-place, from Windows Server 2019 ‘Core’ to Windows Server 2022 ‘Core.’ Thankfully, the overall setup routine is similar to using the GUI (Desktop Experience) in Windows Server….

Microsoft Defender for Endpoint (MDE, previously known as Microsoft Defender Advanced Threat Protection) is Microsoft’s endpoint security platform that goes far and beyond the traditional anti-malware engine and firewall to protect against the modern cybersecurity threats an organization faces.  An evolving solution since it was first announced in 2016, MDE is part of the Microsoft…

When was the last time you were engaged in a communication thread and made a mental note to assign yourself a task? And then…forgot? Yep, me too. I can literally say it aloud while I’m working and lose that thought a minute later. Thankfully for our sakes, Microsoft is continuing to make it easy to…

One of the things that Amazon recommends for high availability is to be sure that your services span multiple AWS regions. The need for this advice was definitely underlined last week when the AWS Frankfurt data center experienced a failure. While this sort of thing is extremely, rare it does happen. When your services can…

If you haven’t ever heard of Fluid in the context of Microsoft’s collaboration suite, you could be forgiven. Fluid is a framework for breaking productivity applications into components and then accessing the data inside of another application. Fluid is not a new kid on the block and was announced a couple of years ago but…

The Microsoft Surface Hub is a device that has undergone a significant amount of transition in its short life. Specifically, the second-generation hub strategy evolved from a device that rotated and was extensible with additional displays to representing hardware that was closer to its first-generation sibling than an all-new experience. As the product has matured,…