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In a rather odd decision, Microsoft is launching self-service purchases for Office 365 tenant users who want to use the Power Platform without consulting an administrator. Another troubling sign is the way that the MailItemsAccessed audit event has been packaged into a new Microsoft 365 Audit feature. Tenants expected to see this audit event last January after Microsoft announced it was coming. Its subsequent disappearance was a mystery until now.

In today’s Ask the Admin, I look in more detail at how Reset this PC actually works and the new cloud download feature that is coming in Windows 10 20H1.

PowerShell jobs are an integral part of PowerShell. This handy feature allows administrators to run commands asynchronously. Asynchronous commands allow for parallel execution cutting down on time and fully leveraging compute power.

Javier Soltero, ex-boss of Outlook, is now running G Suite for Google. The appointment is an opportunity to reboot G Suite to take on Office 365 and make up some of the ground that’s been lost in the last five years using the “new brush sweeps clean” principle. In other news, Microsoft bought Mover to acquire its migration connectors that move files into SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business, including files from Google Drive.

Microsoft has acquired Mover and will integegreat the technology into its Microsoft 365 migrations solutions.

How to set up notifications in Windows 10 to maximize productivity while not missing important tasks and messages.

Because corporate executives are paid far too much, this edition of Short Takes looks at top Microsoft executive salaries, an ironic Windows 10 patch, a presidential candidate who mocked Bing, Apple’s most pointless stat ever, and much, much more.

A closer look at the Microsoft Defender Tamper Protection feature that rolled out in the Windows 10 May 2019 Update and that is soon to be enabled by default for all users.

Office 365 applications now create many guest accounts in Azure Active Directory. You can see what accounts exist, but it’s more difficult to discover who created the accounts – or why they were created. Fortunately, the Office 365 audit log holds a lot of useful data that can be interrogated to find some answers and PowerShell is a great tool for slicing and dicing audit data. See what you think of the answers I’ve come up with.

How to connect Windows Server to Microsoft’s modern cloud-native SIEM solution Azure Sentinel.

The fit-and-finish quality within Office 365 is sometimes less than desirable. Two recent changes in SharePoint Online make it easier for users to know when a document library is connected to Teams and to generate thumbnails for items stored in the library. Neither change is awe-inspiring, but both are examples of how to improve SharePoint’s fit-and-finish, which is a good thing.

According to a recent blog post by Bruce Sherwin, a member of Microsoft’s Hyper-V Development Team, Cloud & AI, the hypervisor development team is working on bringing VBS to everyone and enabling it by default.