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While Cortana may not be the personal assistant Microsoft imagined a few years ago, the truth is that the AI personality has found a home inside of Microsoft 365. The digital assistant has found its niche and at Ignite 2020, the company announced new features coming to Cortana.

If you are a heavy use of Teams calling features, several updates on the horizon are going to significantly improve that experience.

Microsoft’s larger Surface Hub 2S pre-order will open on September 22nd.

For those IT Pros who have been asking for a Linux interaction of Edge, your wait is nearly over. The company says that a public preview of Edge for Linux will be released in October.

Microsoft offers a robust identity platform, but to facilitate authentication and authorization applications need to be registered. To that end, within Azure AD you will find the App registrations pane that offers the ability to create registrations for applications and assign permissions accordingly.

Welcome to 48 Hours of Free Technical Content The annual Microsoft Ignite conference for IT Professionals was originally planned to run in New Orleans starting today. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Microsoft decided not to run in-person events through June 2021, and consequently Ignite 2020 is now a 48-hour online event run over three days…

Many tasks within Windows are managed by the Windows Task Scheduler. This versatile task scheduling system, akin to cron in Linux, is used by both core Windows processes and by user programs alike.

Microsoft has improved Mobile Device Management in Windows 10 and it now works more like Group Policy.

Clamping Down on Guests After several years’ usage, most Office 365 tenants are accustomed to guest users and the way that the Microsoft 365 groups membership model allows guests access to group resources such as plans, sites, and teams. For most, the model works well, and the only issue is how to best manage the…

Like Microsoft has done for many years, the company is once again planning a fall hardware event where the company will make updates to the Surface Pro X and introduce a smaller laptop as well.

For twenty years, Active Directory (AD) has been the cornerstone of identity management. Despite the popularity of cloud computing, AD remains a key part of the infrastructure that almost every IT service relies on for its security. Active Directory is vulnerable to attack Active Directory was designed for a world without cloud computing and where…

A surprising change from Microsoft arrived at the end of August and it has caught many schools returning for the new term by surprise and prevented some from using cloud recording features.