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Ahead of Ignite, Microsoft will Combine Office and Microsoft 365 Roadmaps

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Ahead of Microsoft’s Ignite conference, the company will combine the roadmaps for Office 365 and Microsoft 365 signaling that these two products will continue to be deeply intertwined.

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Patch Tuesday August 2018

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

This month sees a host of memory corruption vulnerabilities patched and Intel discovers a new speculative execution side channel flaw.

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Paul Thurrott’s Short Takes: August 17

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Because jetlag is the worst, this edition of Short Takes looks at Microsoft’s most recent Cortana defeats, stepping back from the Skype Classic cliff, so much for hybrid MDM, and much more.

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Blocking Guests from Classified Office 365 Groups (and Teams)

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Office 365 Groups and Teams can hold tons of secrets that we don’t want to share outside our organization. To keep sensitive information secure, you can block guest users from groups by setting a directory policy on your most important and confidential groups.

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New Search Experiences Arriving (finally) to SharePoint Online

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Search in SharePoint Online (SPO) is one of the areas in the platform where we will see more changes in the future. In this article, I will introduce you to some of the new search features almost arriving in your SPO sites.

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Review: Microsoft’s Surface Go hits the Mark for the First Line Worker

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Microsoft’s Surface Go is smaller in every way but does the limited performance impact it’s big picture dreams?

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Azure File Sync Requirements

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

This post will detail the system requirements and considerations for planning an Azure File Sync deployment.

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Azure File Sync is now Generally Available

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

This post will discuss what the general availability of Azure File Sync will mean to customers that are continuing to use on-premises file servers.

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Migrating SharePoint, the Testing Plan, and what was really tested

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

We all know that testing your migration plan should be done but realistically, that’s not always a luxury you may have time to do.

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Network Principles for Office 365 Connectivity

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Two simple principles are key for Office 365 network connectivity. Keep things simple and get user data to a Microsoft edge node as quickly as possible. However, some organizations insist on using VPNs and proxy servers to interfere with Office 365 network traffic, which slows things down and makes users unhappy. It’s strange that people haven’t gotten the message after so many years…

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Amazon Announces Availability of Serverless Aurora MySQL

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Amazon recently announced that a serverless version of their Aurora MySQL database product is now generally available.

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Windows 10 Enterprise for Remote Sessions

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

In this Ask the Admin, I’ll look at a new Windows 10 SKU, Windows 10 Enterprise for Remote Sessions, that recently appeared in a Windows Insider preview build.

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