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The revelations that Exchange Server has had a vulnerability in the Exchange Control Panel since Exchange 2010 shocked some. Microsoft has patched CVE-2020-0688, but the problem gives on-premises administrators something to think about as they look to the long-term future of their email service. Staying on-premises is an option, but going to the cloud might be more secure.

There is one feature that I have been waiting to be brought to Teams that has been on the roadmap since July – the ability to chat with Skype contacts inside of Teams. Starting this month, Microsoft will being rolling out that functionality to all customers.

Microsoft is expanding support for passwordless logins to devices that are hybrid joined to Azure AD domains. In this article, I explain how FIDO2 security keys work in hybrid Azure AD environments.

In the world of software development, dogfooding is the act of using your own software. For Microsoft, this is done as a sign of trust that if they can use it for the multi-billion-dollar operation, every other company should be able to as well.

SharePoint Online is embracing Office 365 Sensitivity Labels to allow protected documents to be processed by indexing and available to content searches. The Office Online apps (Word, Excel, and PowerPoint) also support the application of sensitivity labels. The only disappointment is that the SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business browser interfaces don’t allow labels to be applied to documents.

Just like Windows, Linux has many running services that need proper management. With the advent of PowerShell 7 and it’s cross-platform ability, the idea of using PowerShell to manage Linux systems becomes more attractive.

Windows App Installer was first introduced in the Windows 10 Anniversary Update (1607) to make sideloading UWP apps easier. Since then, Microsoft has gradually been improving App Installer to provide most of the features found in the Microsoft Store. In this article, I look at how App Installer has developed and how it fits into the bigger picture.

If you haven’t heard of Posh-GIT, it is a great module for assisting in managing your GIT repositories from within PowerShell. There is so much functionality in GIT that it can be hard, especially in a PowerShell oriented way, to use that functionality effectively. Using Posh-GIT, you are able to interact easily with GIT using…

Microsoft may be pivoting Cortana but the assistant is gaining features in the hardware space as well as inside of Teams.

Google makes it easier for enterprises to move apps that rely on Windows Server Active Directory to Google Cloud.

A Microsoft employee commented that Exchange 2019 is the last on-premises version, something that would bring the era of Exchange to a close after 25 or so years. Perhaps that’s the case, and certainly there’s been a huge transition of email workload to Exchange Online. But is an opinion expressed by a single Microsoft employee enough to tell us what will happen over the next few years?

How account synchronization works in the new version of Microsoft Edge.