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Microsoft’s Surface Book 3 represents the ‘best of the best’ of the Surface family. It has the most powerful CPU/GPU combo, it can be a tablet or a laptop, supports up to 32GB of RAM and is a machine designed for work. Technically, it’s designed for work and play, with both consumer-grade and professional-grade GPU…

Because I heard you missed me, I’m back, this edition of Short Takes looks at Microsoft’s mea culpa on open-source, a cute return to the Microsoft of the 1990s, Microsoft Teams vs. Windows, Microsoft Teams vs. Slack, the future of command lines, and much, much, more.

Office 365 tenants often want to journal email from Exchange Online mailboxes. Things become a little more complicated when protected email is involved, but Exchange can decrypt protected messages and create journal reports with attachments containing the original encrypted message and a decrypted copy. That should be enough for journaling systems to process the journal reports and import messages into their repositories.

Microsoft has announced today that Windows 10, version 2004 is now generally available

Microsoft announces GPU hardware acceleration and GUI app support for WSL 2 at Build 2020.

Microsoft has rolled out a bunch of new features in the last week, here’s a recap of what functionality is new.

File Servers – We all have them in one form or another. These servers tend to grow exponentially more critical than what we imagined when deploying them. They were also quite cumbersome to migrate until Microsoft released its Storage Migration Service. But there is one important scenario that it does not cover – consolidating multiple…

Should I Create a List or Some Tasks? Following Microsoft’s announcement about the new Lists application at the recent virtual Build conference, the thought might have crossed your mind that Microsoft 365 is accumulating too many ways to make lists. As in: Outlook tasks. To Do. Planner. OneNote. And that’s without counting Excel or Word,…

Microsoft is hoping to make it easier for organizations to give Azure Active Directory (AAD) joined and MDM-managed devices access to printers.

Microsoft Windows and Windows Server support a variety of different VPN technologies. The most advanced are DirectAccess and Windows 10 Always On VPN. In this article, I look at the advantages of Always On VPN over DirectAccess, and outline the infrastructure required to deploy Always On VPN.

Any terminal output in PowerShell is controlled by formatting files. Oftentimes, it is very useful to display more information about a given object than the default views offer. Since the early days of PowerShell, there has been an option to modify this display by using Format.ps1xml files. The biggest change to formatting, in recent years,…

VPNs are commonly used to give users working from home access to corporate resources. But traditional forced tunnel VPNs can have a significant impact on the performance of cloud services like Office 365. In this article, I look at the different ways VPNs can be configured for performance and security.