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New Group Policy Updates for Windows 10 in 2020

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

The Windows 10 May 2020 Update includes some new Group Policy settings to manage security, delivery optimization, and apps.

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Windows 10X Plans have Come Full Circle

Microsoft has made significant changes to Windows 10X and lost nearly 18 months of development time.

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Sensitivity Labels Exert More Control Over SharePoint Online Sites

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Expanding the Control of Sensitivity Labels In a Teams live event to brief customers on July 14, Microsoft revealed details of how they plan to evolve the container settings in sensitivity labels to exert more control over SharePoint Online sites. Microsoft also plans to improve the flow of creating new sensitivity labels to create “label…

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Paul Thurrott’s Short Takes: July 17

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Because the end is listless, this edition of Short Takes looks at a temporary Outlook problem that broke the Internet, Google’s Microsoft envy, a well-intentioned but ill-conceived plan to fix Edge and Chrome memory usage, Microsoft layoffs, and so much more.

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The Problem with Guest Accounts (Going Outside Your Tenant)

Last Update: Nov 19, 2024

Good Visibility Over Guest Activity for Host Office 365 Tenants From a host tenant perspective, Microsoft has done a great job with Azure B2B Collaboration, the foundation for guest user access for applications like Teams and Planner. External people can be invited to join groups and teams or share documents and folders (including now through…

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Patch Tuesday – July 2020

Microsoft releases 123 security updates, including a patch for a critical Windows Server DNS bug and Hyper-V RemoteFX vGPU gets disabled.

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Extreme Flow Guard (xFG) and Kernel Data Protection (KDP) Coming to Windows 10

xFG and KDP bring new defenses against data corruption attacks in Windows 10.

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Microsoft Updates Outlook with New Time Management Features

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Microsoft has announced several updates coming to Outlook that are designed to make it easier to add tasks to To Do and manage your calendar.

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How to Customize the Microsoft Terminal

Last Update: Nov 19, 2024

There are many ways to configure Microsoft Terminal to fit your needs. Each release has refined or expanded upon the available customization options.

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Understanding the New Teams Search Functionality

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Microsoft has improved contextual search in Teams but its implementation can be hard to understand.

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Surface Laptop 3 – Six Months Later

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Microsoft’s Surface Laptop 3 has been on the market for more than half a year, but is it the right device for you?

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What the Teams Meeting Enhancements Mean to the Enterprise

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Microsoft has a very competent PR engine that is skilled at pumping news out that’s designed to thrill and excite people. We saw this happening in full flood on July 8 when Microsoft announced a set of improvements for Teams meetings. Now that the fuss surrounding the announcements has calmed down, it’s time to take…

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