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Since its inception, Microsoft Teams has had an odd relationship with email. Some think that Teams will replace email, at least for many internal conversations. The real facts are that Teams and email need to survive and co-operate together as collaborative modalities for Office 365 tenants. Microsoft is introducing three new features to help Teams gets along better with email, and that’s a good thing.

Microsoft Teams is up and coming in the world of business chat and collaboration clients. Much like Slack, Microsoft Teams offers many of the same tools and integration abilities; a key selling point of business-oriented chat clients is the interoperability that the clients offer.

Back at Ignite, Microsoft announced that it was building a new mobile experience for iOS and Android users. Called the Office app, the application has been in beta since its announcement but that is changing today.

The cloud market has continued to grow at a rapid pace and according to research by Synergy Research Group Amazon AWS remains the clear leader in the cloud market. Synergy Research Group estimated that cloud growth is 37% per year and they also noted that the rate of growth for the cloud market is beginning to slow down.

In today’s Ask the Admin, I look at how to set up Your Phone in Windows 10 so that you can use it to make and receive calls via an Android handset.

This month sees a bumper crop of 99 patches from Microsoft, including a fix for the IE zero-day announced last month and a change in default configuration for new Windows Server Active Directory deployments.

The news that Microsoft is working on cloud signatures for Outlook for Windows is welcome. The venerable Outlook client has long stored its signature information in the system registry, which makes it hard to move signatures from PC to PC. On the other hand, OWA stores its signatures in mailboxes, so the same signature is used no matter where you log in. Of course, OWA is a simpler client (no profiles, for instance), but it should be eminently possible to store everything Outlook needs in the cloud. At least for Outlook clients connected to Exchange Online…

Taking a look at the developer preview of a new PowerShell module from Microsoft that aims to make storing and securely accessing secrets easier in your PowerShell scripts.

Microsoft is planning a hardware event for the Spring, here is what you can expect for the new Book 3 and Go 2 hardware.

Because I want you to be my Valentine, this edition of Short Takes looks at Microsoft finally doing the right thing, Amazon’s legal challenge to Microsoft’s JEDI contract, some real news about Windows 10X, the schedule for Windows 10 version 2004, and much, much more.

February 7th saw Microsoft unexpectedly release a new version of its Chromium-based Edge browser to the stable channel.

Last year, Microsoft announced that it would be making changes to the default LDAP channel binding and signing configuration in Active Directory in the middle of January 2020. But now these changes are being delayed until the second half of 2020 to give organizations more time to prepare.