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Microsoft recently announced the opening dates of the two new Azure regions in Germany, and the freezing of the Azure Germany sovereign regions.

You can connect LinkedIn to Office 365 so that Office 365 users are able to look up LinkedIn contacts from applications like OWA and SharePoint Online. Some privacy concerns have been expressed about the connection, but there’s really nothing to worry about because users are in control of what they see and what they share with others.

Microsoft updated several of its core products this week and announced a new peripheral; while they didn’t hit a home run, this is a reasonable update to the lineup.

Aidan details Azure Firewall, a cloud-scale firewall service that was made generally available at the recent Microsoft Ignite conference.

At the Ignite conference last week, GM Murali Sitaram laid out a new vision for Yammer and explained how the product will be better integrated with Office 365 and Azure. At first blush, the vision addresses the obvious deficiencies that have afflicted Yammer for years and sets out a path for Yammer to become the social layer for Microsoft 365. Time will tell.

Intune plays an important part in Microsoft’s modern desktop strategy, allowing organizations to deploy and manage Windows 10 without an on-premises Active Directory domain. Microsoft announced several new features that will make it easier to manage Windows 10 using Intune.

The month of Septemeber was filled with SharePoint news from Ignite 2018 and Shane helps you find the signal in all the noise.

Microsoft announced at its Ignite conference on Monday a new service called Windows Virtual Desktop that will preview later this year. In today’s Ask the Admin, I’ll take a closer look at exactly what this service provides.

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.