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Microsoft is once again changing up how it will service Windows 10; while these updates are not as significant, they do move the cheese a little bit again.

As Microsoft wraps up its 2019 fiscal year, the company made several significant announcements for Office 365 in the month of June.

What happened in June with SharePoint? A lot of reminders but also a little bit of a look towards the future.

This month Microsoft releases Edge preview builds for older versions of Windows, an early preview version of Windows Terminal makes its way to the Microsoft Store, the Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 previews in Windows 10 Insider build 18917, and Microsoft patches NTLM relay attack vulnerabilities.

Each month Microsoft adds new features and updates existing products for Azure, here’s the updates you need to know about for June.

Microsoft made the Windows 10 May 2019 Update and Windows Server version 1903 available for download May 21st.

Because baby steps are still forward steps, this edition of Short Takes looks at Microsoft’s less-than-inclusive internal policies, a weird Windows Update prompt, more OneDrive, less Cortana, and much, much more.

Microsoft is rolling out priority notifications for Teams, the ability for users to send urgent messages in chats so that the recipients get notified every two minutes until they respond. Office 365 tenants (except GCC) should see the new functionality in July. Tenants can control who gets to send urgent messages with messaging policies, and some user education would be good to help those allowed to send these messages understand when a message is truly urgent.

Download Hyper-V Server 2019 now from Microsoft’s Evaluation Center website.

An early preview version of Windows Terminal is now available to download from the Microsoft Store.

Microsoft is planning a hardware event for later this year where the company may announce new devices based on chips by companies other than Intel.

Excel fans delight! You can now export task data for a Planner plan to Excel and slice and dice the task information to your heart’s content. The new feature is likely to be popular with Office 365 users because it adds values and it makes sense to use Excel for this purpose, but another way of looking at it is that Planner is so poor at analysis and reporting that it needed external help. The truth probably lies in the middle.