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If you have a network attached storage (NAS) device in your office, it’s important to make sure that you have at least one off-site copy of that data so that it can be restored in the event of a disaster or if files are accidentally deleted.

Microsoft dug themselves out of a pit of pain last Friday when they reversed the decision to nix some popular partner benefit just before the Inspire conference in Las Vegas. However, the world is changing and the cloud is where the action is. Microsoft pays to deliver services from the cloud and that cost must be either absorbed internally or transmitted to partners. That simple fact makes it sure that difficult conversations await in the future.

Microsoft is rolling back changes to its partner program and will keep IUR benefits…for now.

Microsoft’s Teams application has more than 13 million daily active users and the company is pushing out new features in July and August.

Microsoft is introducing a new Azure feature that will make it significantly easier for its partners to manage customers hardware across tenants.

If you are a Windows shop, Windows Server is still the best way to provide file and print, and granular management of Windows.

In February, I published a script to report the activity in Office 365 Groups and Teams. It is natural that some of those groups will be obsolete, so here’s another script to email the owners of those groups. I know the script works because I tested it against 200 groups, but it’s rough and ready and deserves some TLC from people who really know PowerShell.

The built-in diagnostics for Azure App Services will not only help you track down problems and misconfigurations in your app, but also make sure you are following the best practices.

We hear ‘edge’ a lot, from browsers to data centers but here is what you need to know about edge computing.

Generation 2 virtual machines (VMs) have been available in Hyper-V since Windows Server 2012 R2 and they provide several important features that weren’t supported by generation 1 VMs, some of which are now available in Azure VMs.

Last month, Paul, Mary Jo, and I were in Washington, D.C. where we recorded a second iteration Health of Tech at ShiftHappens. This series focuses on looking at technology and Microsoft as a whole to provide a ‘health’ of Microsoft.

Microsoft is making updates to its sales agenda for FY2020 and for the year ahead, Windows is out, Teams is in.