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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…

In the last two articles in this series, I’ve pointed out some of the flaws in the arguments put forward by backup vendors for why you’ll back up Microsoft 365. There’s actually a good reason for using a backup product that they don’t often suggest, and it is the one that actually matters most on…

Microsoft is planning what will be one of the biggest updates to Windows in recent history. While we have seen projects like Windows 10X come and go, Windows 10 is evolving and Microsoft is plotting the course for the next generation of Windows. The company has sent out invites for an event that will take…

Microsoft recently announced that its Defender for Endpoint solution can now detect when unmanaged network devices may pose a threat. Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is an enterprise antimalware solution that builds upon the free Microsoft Defender software that’s built into Windows 10 and Windows Server. Defender for Endpoint helps enterprises prevent, detect, investigate, and respond…

This post was Sponsored by Stellar, you can learn more about their EDB Recovery Tool here. Exchange Server is Microsoft’s enterprise email, calendaring, contact, scheduling, and collaboration platform. It is an enterprise-class server that is primarily focused on sending, receiving, and storing email messages for all of the users in the organization. The current version…

With Build being this month a lot of the announcements came out via Build and while it is a developer conference I would say most of the stuff is not traditional dev focused. I would also mention that almost nothing here is applicable today, they are more where are we headed. Speaking of headed, if…

Satya Nadella announces there will be significant changes coming to Windows, Microsoft starts rolling out the Windows 10 May 2021 Update, and Edge 91 makes it to the Stable channel. And there’s a whole load more this month, so let’s get started. Windows 10 May 2021 Update (21H1) is now generally available Microsoft made the…