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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.

This past May, 2020 Amazon presented their AWS Summit – US and Canada with a keynote by their Amazon CTO, Werner Vogels, and a collection of about 40 additional technical sessions. Amazon’s AWS Summit is a free online conference that is presented as a series of events in each of its major global regions. Like…

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,…