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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.

Hyper-V is an optional feature in Windows 10 that can be used to run virtual machines (VMs) and perform other virtualization duties, such as supporting Credential Guard and Windows Sandbox. Like all Windows 10 features, you can add or remove Hyper-V using Turn Windows features on or off in the Programs and Features applet of the legacy Control Panel, PowerShell or DISM.

Microsoft’s decision to make its partners pay commercial rates for software licenses might seem logical at first glance, but it’s not helpful in a world where cloud technologies change so often. The problem I have is that anything that might prevent partners acquiring knowledge about Microsoft technologies is a bad thing for customers who depend on those partners. It should be interesting to see if any spirited debates happen at next week’s Inspire conference.

In this Ask the Admin, I look at what you need to know before connecting a high resolution 4K display to a notebook.

Microsoft introduced support for like reactions in OWA in 2015. Teams also supports likes, but it also supports other reactions to messages from sad to angry. Knowing how to use these reactions is a social minefield. On a serious notes, reactions are not currently stored in Teams compliance records in Exchange Online, which is a problem if people react to messages with likes.

Are you curious about what an Azure App Service plan is, exactly? In this article we’ll dive into the essence and capabilities of an App Service plan.

Office 365 Message Encryption (OME) now offers an advanced set of features to Office 365 E5 tenants. You can have messages with specific branding delivered to different domains. Advanced OME also includes message revocation. Branding is a feature that will appeal to a limited set of tenants, but it would be nice if revocation was available to a wider set of Office 365 tenants.