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Because it’s still August, what do you mean it’s still August, this edition of Short Takes looks at Microsoft and Oracle’s epic battle for TikTok, the latest Windows 10 version upgrade, a Windows 95 anniversary, a weird problem with Microsoft Teams for Android, and so much more.

If you need to understand how to find older devices that will no longer work with Teams, here is how you can identify those assets.

Microsoft is dealing with a minor issue of blasting out “Test” messages to Teams users.

The Challenge of Retention Processing Retention labels control how long items remain in an Office 365 workload and what happens once the retention period expires. Labels can be assigned manually, but the success of manual labeling depends on users understanding how to make the best choice from the available retention labels. Sometimes the choice is…

Most x64 bit server hardware shipping today has TPM 2.0 and Secure Boot, but the features are often turned off by default.

The Microsoft Surface Duo is here but first, we must get it out of the box.

Coming soon to Microsoft Word, the ability to transcribe audio files.

Several new Azure Files features went into public preview earlier this year to help organizations move file shares to the cloud with confidence.

The Windows Virtual Desktop July 2020 update brings Azure Resource Manager support and Teams media optimizations.

Smart Technology Figures Out What You Want to Type On May 8, Microsoft announced plans (MC212345) to introduce a feature called “suggested text” to OWA. Microsoft 365 roadmap item 63795 says “Using smart technology, Outlook will predict text while you type. Just use the Tab key to accept the text prediction.” Text predictions is another…

What is MetaOS or Taos? It looks like it will be the future of Microsoft 365

Application Proxy lets users access Remote Desktop apps hosted behind a Remote Desktop Gateway. Now it works with the RDS web client too.