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Because I’m off to Barcelona, this edition of Short Takes looks at Microsoft at MWC, Microsoft’s “inner source” moves, Microsoft’s next Chromebook competitor, Xbox Game Pass on Nintendo Switch, and much, much more.

In this Aidan explains how one can create network rules in the Azure Firewall to allow transport layer traffic between subnets or virtual networks.

A year is a long time in Office 365. Lots changes in that time, so it’s good to go back and look at some PowerShell written to report Teams and Groups activity. Improvements can be made, advantage taken of changes made by Microsoft, and generally the whole thing can be tidied up and upgraded. PowerShell makes it easy to do – and to change if you don’t like what I’ve done.

Here is how to send emails, including attachments, to Microsoft OneNote to improve your workflow.

This post is sponsored by Druva’s Office 365 backup solution. There’s no doubt that Office 365 is the most popular cloud services today. Microsoft launched Office 365 back in June 2011 and it has become a popular choice for the day-to-day work of both businesses and consumers alike. Office 365 is full-featured, easy to access,…

This month sees significant changes in Exchange Server security and critical patches for Windows and SharePoint Server.

Microsoft’s Teams suffered a significant outage but the company has a vested interest in making sure that it offers a better uptime than what traditional on-premises provides.

Microsoft has announced the ability of the Planner web app to create multiple plans for an Office 365 group. This is a useful feature that Teams and SharePoint Online (the Planner web part) can already do, but some extra work was needed to break the connection between a plan and a group, and that’s what Multiplan means. Or it means a spreadsheet.

How you can extract news from multiple SharePoint Sites into one centralized news digest.

Looking to install the subsystem for Linux in Windows 10? Here’s how to do it.

Because all I can taste is snow, this edition of Short Takes looks at a Windows 10 development spaz attack, Visual Studio 2019, Microsoft’s cooler than it wants you to think, Amazon vs. NYC, Apple vs. Qualcomm, and much more.

Teams now supports memberships of up to 5,000 users. This is great for large tenants, but probably isn’t too interesting for most of Office 365. If you’re in the situation where you might need to operate very large teams, you might need Microsoft to make some changes to the client, write some tools, and impose some basic etiquette on Teams users.