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With Ignite happening last month, there was a lot of Office 365 news and Shane distills it down into an easy to read format.

Septemeber was full of Azure announcements from Ignite, Aidan breaks all the news down so that it is easier to digest.

This month sees lots of announcements coming out of Microsoft’s annual Ignite conference for IT pros, including about a preview version of Windows Virtual Desktop and Windows Server 2019 general availability.

Because hazy, hot, and humid doesn’t even begin to explain the weather in Orlando, this edition of Short Takes looks some of the other news that came out of TechEd, er ah, Microsoft Ignite this week.

The future of Cortana may be vastly different than what most imagined but it makes a lot of sense for Microsoft.

Microsoft announced at Ignite that you can soon manage Teams through the Teams and Skype for Business Online Admin Center. Office 365 administrators will welcome this because it means that they can manage teams without being a member of those teams. And they can avoid PowerShell, which is a pity.

Aidan discusses some of the great news about managing and ensuring governance in Microsoft Azure that was shared at the Ignite conference this week.

Aidan shares the latest information that I have on various Azure announcements that don’t easily fit into other categories.

Microsoft released lots of information about Exchange 2019 at the Ignite conference. Administrators will love some of the new features, but end users will find little to amuse them. But then again, the Exchange on-premises story is all about being a bulletproof enterprise-class email server. And that’s just what Exchange 2019 delivers.

Just before Microsoft’s Ignite conference got started this week, version 1809 of the Windows Admin Center and SDK reached general availability. In this Ask the Admin, I’ll look at some of the new features.

Microsoft is making Office 2019 available starting today but only for a small group of customers; consumers will have to wait a few more weeks.

This week at Ignite, Microsoft has announced a sizeable amount of data storage news and Aidan breaks it all down for easy consumption.