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Microsoft has announced that you will soon be able to use meeting IDs to join a meeting instead of a link.

Hello Power Platform Friends. Spring has finally sprung here in Ohio spring, so I am dying to get outside and will keep this short. Start them early! Nisha Sinha is a sixth-grader in Vancouver, Canada who wrote a kudos app for her school using Power Apps. Now students and teachers can send each other creative…

Microsoft ran another virtual edition of the Ignite conference in March. As usual there were a large number of Azure infrastructure announcements. Availability Zones Expansion Microsoft has committed to introducing availability zones to all Azure regions by the end of 2021. An Azure region (supposedly) is made up of one or more physical data centers…

This month sees a bumper crop of interesting announcements, despite the expected lack of Windows news at Ignite. Microsoft officially announced Windows Server 2022, Windows 10 21H1 is now available for pre-validation testing, Project Reunion reaches general availability with version 0.5, and Windows 10X is reportedly delayed until the second half of 2021. Classic Edge…

If you can’t get Teams to authenticate or properly access your Microsoft 365 content, you are not alone. It appears that there is another significant disruption to Microsoft’s cloud service as both Office 365 status and Azure status pages or currently offline.

When people talk about the security of data in Microsoft 365, invariably phrase you’ll hear – and I don’t know who coined it – “the cloud is just someone else’s computer”. When someone says it to me, I literally have to stop myself from saying “…but actually” before we both explode into memes. Microsoft 365…

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…