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Good news for those who like to know what’s going on in email: Office 365 supervision policies now support Teams personal chats and channel conversations in addition to email. And you can now use sensitive data types to find communications worth reading. Seriously, supervision policies are important to a certain section of the market, so it’s good that Teams messages now surface for review.

Announced at Ignite last year, Microsoft’s big bet on virtualized desktops is finally ready for public testing.

Microsoft is continuing to build out its security services with a new offering for MacOS and new features for ATP as well.

With Azure’s Application Insights you can monitor the availability of any web site or web API from multiple locations around the world.

How to use Puppet Bolt Tasks to run remote jobs on Windows Server.

How to deploy a Windows Server Active Directory test environment in Microsoft Azure.

Microsoft’s Teams app has quickly become a cornerstone of the Office 365 platform. Offering a wide variety of customized experiences, the communication hub is a product that is receiving significant investment from senior management and today they are rolling out several new features.

A question none of us like to think about too much is what we would do if a natural or man-made disaster took out Office 365 and disrupted service for an extended period. The good news is that the way Microsoft has built out Office 365 into datacenter regions helps to limit the effect of any outage, but the fact still remains that something bad could happen. What would you do then?

This month sees Microsoft patch two zero-days in Windows 7 and critical bugs in Windows Deployment Services and DHCP.

Microsoft’s Azure platform offers a robust number of services and while it may sound expensive, it’s easy to stay on a budget or even get some services for free.

Because it’s the ides of March, this edition of Short Takes looks at Huawei’s Plan B, a Windows 7 courtesy reminder, Windows 10 automatic driver rollback, Microsoft v. Foxconn, and much, much more.

Microsoft’s rolling out a new service that is designed to make it easier to build content with integrated matchmaking, communication, and many other features for game developers.