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Microsoft has announced that it will start telling your users that they can also use Teams for personal use with a new banner notification in the activity feed.

I do most of my Azure work in both North Central US and Central US. However, I had a recent project where I needed to deploy some Azure storage in the new South Africa North region. Random, I love how the names get names by their dates of entry and there is a funny story…

Microsoft will roll-out a new feature later this year that should will increase visibility for Teams private chats.

On-premises Active Directory domain-joined PCs have typically been managed with tools such as Group Policy.  At larger scales, you may have Configuration Manager or third-party tools.  The availability of Intune (part of Endpoint Manager) in Microsoft 365 subscriptions such as Business Premium and E3 has opened up an alternative.  The benefit many are seeing over…

You’re running late prepping for a meeting…your supervisor asked you to whip up a short PowerPoint slide deck for your part of the presentation…You forgot! Scrambling, you add a few boxes, ovals, and polygon shapes for some key data but you’re spending an inordinate amount of time trying to get all your graphic elements to…

Microsoft announced at its Ignite conference earlier this year that it is extending its Secured-Core initiative to Windows Server 2022. Currently available for selected Windows 10 devices, Secured-Core requires hardware to meet new standards that follow isolation best practices and to have minimal trust of firmware. Microsoft says that Secured-Core devices are intended for industries…

As part of the Automatic VM Guest Patching for Azure VMs preview announced at Ignite in March, Microsoft introduced Windows Server hotpatching. Hotpatching lets organizations apply security patches to Windows Server without rebooting. A feature that’s been part of other server platforms for years, hotpatching finally comes to Windows Server. But there are some caveats….

Intune Administrators can deploy, make optionally available, or uninstall Win32 apps with the help of Windows 10’s Intune Management Extension (IME).  The IME is a service installed on Windows 10 that acts as the engine to execute these actions and, additionally, PowerShell scripts (which were originally its only purpose). Win32 apps in the context of…

Microsoft recently announced the first preview of Windows Server 2022, and some of its new features, at Ignite at the beginning of March. In this article, we will look at new container options in the upcoming version of Windows Server. Microsoft is adding new features to Windows Server 2022 to help organizations accelerate application modernization….

Microsoft announced at its recent Ignite conference that WAC in the Azure Portal in now available in public preview. Prior to this update, it was only possible to manage VMs at the infrastructure level in the Azure Portal. But WAC in the Azure Portal lets administrators manage Windows Server VM guests at a more granular…

Microsoft will be rolling out a simplified sharing control for files stored in SharePoint and OneDrive. This will allow users to more easily control the sharing of files for their collaborators.

During the first part of Ignite in September 22-24, 2020, Microsoft announced that it was bringing Windows Admin Center (WAC) to the Azure Portal. Windows Admin Center (WAC) is a complete reimagination of the built-in management consoles (MMC) that are used to configure Windows Server. WAC is a web-based administration portal for managing local or…