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Keeping employees engaged is a critical component to the long-term success of the individual but with resources often scattered to various ends of your intranet, finding content can be challenging. Microsoft is looking to tackle this problem with its new Employee Experience Platform or EXP for short. Microsoft is calling the new offering Viva and…

Microsoft’s battle for education, while not won, has certainly become much less of a worry for the company.

In a surprise development, Microsoft has released the source code for the Extensible Storage Engine (ESE) on GitHub. Fans of the non-SQL database engine, which has powered every version of Exchange since the initial 4.0 release twenty-five years ago, now have the chance to peruse the ESE code. Although Microsoft isn’t accepting suggestions to improve…

February 2nd, 2021, Microsoft announced ‘Windows 10 in cloud configuration’. ‘Cloud configuration’ is a new recommended device configuration that can be applied to Windows 10 computers using Intune, Microsoft’s Mobile Device Management (MDM) solution, which is part of Microsoft Endpoint Manager (MEM). Organizations can use MEM to apply a standard configuration to devices running Windows…

New queries in Update Compliance provide greater insight for IT when safeguard holds are placed on Windows endpoints.

A near-final build of Windows 10X leaks to the Internet, Microsoft released Edge version 88, and Microsoft is hoping to make Win32 APIs available to more languages. So, let’s get started. Windows 10X leaked build Early in the month, a leaked build of Windows 10X surfaced that allowed us to get hands on with Microsoft’s…

What a fun month. Why? Because there is no theme. (My 3rd grader has been asking for help on his writing work and they are discussing themes) All of the topics are quick little wins, instead of those months where everything is about one topic. We got stuff for pro developers, kids, Power BI lovers,…

January has come and gone but Office 365 news is still flowing.

The first month of the year has come and gone but here is a recap of the Azure announcements for January.

Activity Explorer Highlights Label Activities In June 2020, I covered Microsoft’s “Know Your Data” initiative, essentially the introduction of a bunch of new features in the Data classification section of the Microsoft 365 compliance center. Requiring Office 365 E5 or Microsoft 365 E5 (or E5 compliance) licenses, Microsoft targets this functionality at large enterprises who…

Microsoft introduced Secure Shell (SSH) as a transport for PowerShell Remoting in PowerShell 6. Older versions of PowerShell (Windows PowerShell) are restricted to HTTP/HTTPS and Windows Remote Management (WinRM). WinRM/HTTP is fine for Active Directory (AD) environments. Authentication and communications are secured. WinRM/HTTPS is for accessing workgroup computers, i.e. computers not joined to an AD…

Because Microsoft announced its quarterly earnings this week, this edition of Short Takes looks exclusively at the results across all of the software giant’s major business units.