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Microsoft has announced that Exchange Online and Outlook will soon synchronize email signatures across devices. Does this mean that the ISV market for email autosignature products is over? I don’t think so because there’s lots of other things to do with email signatures once device synchronization is handled.

In somewhat an unusual move, Microsoft has announced dates for its Build conference in 2020. In previous years, the company has held that information back until a couple of months before the event but that’s changing this year.

How to manage and secure Active Directory using PowerShell; I’ll look at the most useful PowerShell cmdlets and give examples of how to use them.

It’s hard to find and fix every legacy on-premises setting. In the case of OneDrive for Business, it allows users to stop their site appearing in search results. That doesn’t sound too bad, but blocking search affects many other Office 365 features and it’s a good example of how a legacy setting can have a big influence in the cloud. Fortunately Microsoft agrees and they’re going to fix the problem. We don’t know when or how the fix will come, but when it does, users won’t be able to disable eDiscovery for their OneDrive for Business site.

As businesses have been moving along the path toward modernization and digital transformation, there’s no doubt that they have been adopting the hybrid cloud in greater numbers.

With Google and Dell partnering to ship hardware that includes the Chrome OS Enterprise upgrade out-of-the-box, does Google’s push in the enterprise threaten Microsoft’s dominant position?

Lots of hot air and fuss resulted when Microsoft confirmed on the Teams UserVoice site that they are actively working on a Teams client for Linux. Many Office 365 tenants will be bemused at the attention this topic received, but competition with Slack and the need to drive faster adoption in Teams deployments are compelling reasons for Microsoft to do this work. We can only hope that the project results in better Teams clients all round.

Microsoft has gradually been transforming itself into a cloud and security company over the last few years. Now in public preview, Azure Sentinel brings many of the security features Microsoft uses to secure its own cloud environments to organizations that need to collect data from on-premise systems and cloud apps.

In the final part of this series, I’ll show you how to connect to a virtual machine or app in a Windows Virtual Desktop host pool.

Because summer ends when I say it ends, this edition of Short Takes looks at Slack and its inability to turn a profit, Microsoft testing 5G game streaming in Korea, deep fake videos, mega-yachts, and Window 10 update quality, and so much more.

If you are looking to improve the search functionality of your SharePoint site, this is the tool you need.

The serverless offering for Azure SQL Server has the best pricing model for databases that see sporadic usage, but there are some caveats.