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Microsoft has announced hardware updates to the Surface Pro, Surface Laptop, and the company is also launching a brand-new tablet that uses an ARM chip and features LTE connectivity.

Looking to upgrade to PowerShell 7? Here’s the easy way to move to the new version of the platform.

Microsoft posted an odd blog on September 9 to announce improvements in the relationship between Exchange Online and Azure Active Directory. Many Office 365 tenants might have ignored the post, but it’s actually about a piece of important work to help the service run better. Many updates happen to Exchange Online objects that need to be replicated to Azure Active Directory and onward to other Office 365 app directories. This work means that changes show up faster, which is good, but there’s a small downside to note.

With September coming to an end, here’s what you need to know about Office 365 and SharePoint announcements during the past month.

Microsoft’s Windows Virtual Desktop is now generally available, here’s what you need to know about the new service.

We are now in the middle of the second Azure (and Windows) semester of 2019. Planning for the first semester of 2020 is underway. And now we are just over 1 month away from Ignite, the week that is usually an explosion of announcements for Microsoft’s enterprise products.

This month sees Microsoft designate Windows 10 1903 ready for broad deployment, BitLocker no longer trust SSDs that have built-in hardware encryption, Windows 10 reach 900 million devices, and much more.

Because I know nothing, nothing, this edition of Short Takes looks at Microsoft’s new privacy fight, Windows 10’s usage successes, a Surface event in New York next week, .NET Core 3.0, and much, much more.

Backing up your data can be an easy process but it’s important to not get caught up in only taking the easy route too.

Collections has made it to the Dev channel for Microsoft Edge Insiders. In this Ask the Admin, I look at how Collections works and where it might be useful.

Adoption and Change Management are often discussed when companies move to cloud services, including Office 365. How quickly can we adopt the new services and how can we manage change? As it happens, Microsoft is extremely interested in driving customer adoption, so much so that this can cause problems with change management simply because so much change happens so quickly insist Office 365. As we discuss here, a structured approach to change management helps.

How to configure Windows and Outlook so that it works better with Windows 10 virtual desktops.