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This week, Microsoft’s Build conference is happening and the company is making announcements from updates to Windows development to new API features in Office. For users of Teams, and more specifically developers of apps for Teams, there are updates that you should know about. Microsoft has announced new extensions for both Visual Studio and Visual…

There are a lot of ways you can look at the Surface Go. Is it a consumer device, a firstline worker piece of hardware, both or neither? For this review, I’m focusing more on the firstline worker scenario. While there are certainly consumers who can and should buy this PC, the workplace and specifically, the…

Year of Yammer Keeps on Rolling Seven months after Microsoft declared the “Year of Yammer,” a public preview of a much-hyped (at Ignite 2019) new user interface is available to Office 365 tenants. General availability of the new Yammer is expected in July 2020. The new interface is already available in the Yammer mobile app…

This week, Microsoft has made available several Surface devices, like the brand new Surface Go 2. But arriving at my office today, is the other end of the spectrum, the Surface Book 3. The Book series from Microsoft is a high-end device that is designed for creative and other professionals who need workstation-class hardware in a…

Publicity for Exchange for a Change I’ve been impressed by the amount of coverage given by mainstream IT reporters to Thursday’s announcement by the Exchange development group that they are rolling out a feature to suppress Reply-All storms. Few of the recent announcements by the Exchange group have received such attention, possibly because Teams hoovers…

Intel releases 27 10th generation CPUs for desktop and mobile with Hardware Shield to improve remote worker security.

Microsoft issues fixes for 111 vulnerabilities, making this month the third biggest set of patches in Microsoft’s history.

Azure AD External Identities, now in public preview, brings easier authentication for users, organizations, and developers.

Microsoft releases Windows Terminal version 1.0 at Build 2020.

The first article in this series discussed how to remove the ability of OWA users to create autoforwarding addresses. This does a lot to stop the forwarding of email outside an organization, but OWA is only one part of the problem. We also need to deal with the other ways that messages can be automatically…

For Surface fans, today has been a big day with the announcement of the Surface Go 2 that has a larger display and the Surface Book 3 with updated internals. Along with the new PCs, the company is announcing several new peripherals that IT Pros are likely interested in exploring. There are two new docks from the…

Today’s the day, the Surface Go 2 is here, and in the not too distant future, so will the Surface Book 3. For now, I am going to focus on the Go 2 as that’s the device in my hands and it is also the lowest-priced Surface you can buy today. The Surface Go 2 starts…