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Because it’s probably Friday, this edition of Short Takes looks at Microsoft’s push to a dystopian future, the sad tale of Microsoft trying to deploy its own software to its customers, AppGet developer gets a small bone, two of Microsoft enemies team up and try not to look desperate, and so much more.

A New Start for Exchange PowerShell Last November, Microsoft announced a refresh of the Exchange Online PowerShell module at the Ignite 2019 conference. The big change was the introduction of nine cmdlets built on REST APIs to replace older cmdlets like Get-Mailbox and Get-MailboxStatistics. These cmdlets have been part of Exchange PowerShell since its introduction…

Microsoft plans to match Zoom’s 7×7 calling but that is likely not enough for the tool.

The multi-lingual publishing feature for SharePoint communication sites has officially been rolled out worldwide.

Along with last week’s release of the Windows 10 May 2020 Update, Microsoft released Windows Server version 2004.

Most system administrators need to connect to many different systems, often in a variety of ways. There are several tools out there that offer this ability, but one of the more popular tools available is that of mRemoteNG. Originally a fork of mRemote, mRemoteNG adds many new features to mRemote. Features of mRemoteNG To support…

Outlook for Windows is introducing an option to allow users to save some settings in the Microsoft 365 cloud.

Know Data to Protect Data On May 14, Microsoft announced that discovery and review capabilities for labeled data and sensitive data types were generally available in the Microsoft 365 Compliance Center. Microsoft calls this “know your data,” part of their Information Protection and Governance framework. The idea is that if you understand your data, you…

This month there is lots of new stuff and I am not even sure what my favorite is. Outlook reading to me, Power Apps letting me see the world differently, SharePoint being everywhere and nowhere at the same time, a bonus tip, and more. How about instead of me writing something clever you just dive…

May was a busy month for Windows, with the release of the Windows 10 May 2020 Update and Build.

As you might notice below, there were a lot of announcements in the world of Azure Infrastructure last month. That’s because Microsoft Build, the developer-focused conference, happened and it is one of the inflection points for new releases in the Azure calendar. Sure, Build is developer-focused, but in the modern world, developers and operators are…

This week in Teams, we’ve been exploring some new functionality rolling out for use with Intune, meeting limits/meeting join improvements, interoperability settings and more.