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Microsoft AppSource solves one of the company’s big problems with its developer ecosystem, discoverability; the new search engine is now live and ready for use.

A new version of the Skype for Business for Mac Preview is now available, adding new contacts and presence, IM, peer-to-peer calling, group video calling, and conversation history capabilities.

Microsoft announced this week that it will take the long-awaited step of moving two key client virtualization solutions—App-V and UE-V—from its Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack (MDOP) suite of utilities and bundle them for free with Windows 10 Enterprise and Education.

In today’s Ask the Admin, I’ll kill two birds with one stone by showing you how to enable secure PowerShell Remoting in Azure virtual machines (VMs) and on-premises servers running Windows Server 2012 R2.

Teams who communicate well understand what needs to be done, what is being worked on, and what is coming up next. To many in the business world, communication is synonymous with email but what if there was an easier way to chat

Microsoft has announced a new Skype meetings feature today that anyone can use but the company is quietly hoping that this offering will entice small businesses to start utilizing Office 365 as it has two major restrictions.

Blackberry has transitioned its devices, in turn, to touch-based Blackberry 10 and Android systems, but it has thus far always kept at least one classic smart phone in the market. But that’s finally changing this week: Blackberry has announced that it will no longer make the BlackBerry Classic.

If there is one cmdlet that confuses PowerShell beginners more than anything, it is Write-Host. Newcomers see commands like Write-Output, Write-Host, and if running PowerShell 5.0 Write-Information. Determining which one to use can be a bit overwhelming. So let me make it simple: For now you can ignore Write-Information.

On this episode, I cover all of the Microsoft news this week including some internal musing, the company is trying more ads on the desktop, NYC trip, year end and a lot more.

Because how could it possibly be July already, this edition of Short Takes focuses on HP’s new PC as a Service scheme, an Office 365 outage in the US, Dell’s decision to kill its Android tablet line, Oracle’s big court case loss, Elizabeth Warren’s trust-busting, and so much more.

Preparing for disaster recovery is worth more than gold when an outage occurs. When the recovery process acts and feels like muscle memory instead of a scramble to figure out what to do, a business can recover faster and avoid the costly outages that impact every organization at some time or another.

This post will show you how to use Azure Resource Manager (ARM) or a CSP subscription to deploy network security and policy enforcement in the form of network security groups (NSGs).