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If there is one app in the Office 365 suite that keeps people coming back to the productivity tools it is not Teams, but Excel. The spreadsheet application is easy to use, highly flexible, and in many companies around the world, worksheets are a structural part of the operational workflow. Last year, when XLOOKUP was…

Time to Review How Sensitivity Labels Are Used In Scoping Sensitivity Labels, I discuss the evolution of sensitivity labels and the ability to scope a label so that it deals with files and messages, container management, or both. Given this new capability, I questioned if it is a good idea to have multi-purpose labels and…

In the latest preview version of Windows Package Manager, you can install Microsoft Store apps from the command line.

Microsoft Teams is now being used by 115 million daily active users.

Microsoft has reported its Q1 fiscal (Q3 calendar year) earnings today and the company posted healthy numbers across the board at the top. The company reported revenue of $37.2 billion with a net income of $13.9 billion – an increase of 30%. Microsoft returned $9.5 billion to shareholders in the form of share repurchases and…

In this article, I explain the differences between Basic Mobility and Security and Microsoft Intune, both MDM services from Microsoft.

Announced back in May 2020, Team templates arrived in Microsoft 365 tenants over the last couple of weeks. Teams templates allow administrators to define the basic information architecture (IA) of a Microsoft team, including the channels and application tabs, along with relevant information in the template to help users understand each team’s purpose. The key…

First announced at Ignite in September 2020, Microsoft Tunnel Gateway provides access to on-premises corporate resources from Android and iOS devices.

On October 14, Microsoft announced that Project Moca, a new “productivity module,” is available as a public preview for Office 365 commercial tenants. The feature had previously been made available to Education tenants in August and to premium Outlook.com accounts in June. Moca is the “Outlook spaces project,” the first sights of which leaked in…

This month Microsoft patches a serious remote code execution (RCE) in Windows that could be easily wormable and Outlook gets a patch for a bug that could let an attacker run arbitrary code on affected systems. And after a break of a few months, Adobe releases a security update for Flash Player.

Because we can only overcome this sense of dread with humor, this edition of Short Takes looks at Microsoft’s new work-from-home deadline, Office PWAs trigger a new Microsoft drama, a new version of Windows 10, a release of Microsoft Edge on Linux, and so much more.

On this iteration of the Petri Dish, we sit down with Cobalt Iron to talk about how they think about data protection and what makes their offering unique. You can learn more about Cobalt Iron, here.