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SharePoint Server 2019 will enter public preview in June of 2018 but its final release date isn’t know yet, but I have an educated guess.

July was a busy month for Azure announcements, in this post, we wrap it all up so that you can stay up to date on the latest announcements.

Aidan Finn takes a look back at the biggest headlines in the world of Microsoft this year, and puts together a summary of what he considers to be the top Microsoft news stories of 2014.

Microsoft will release Office 365 multi-geo tenants to general availability in early 2018. You can then deploy Exchange Online, OneDrive for Business, and (later) SharePoint Online across multiple Office 365 datacenter regions. It’s good for data sovereignty, but won’t solve network problems.

Microsoft has launched Stream, their new video streaming, sharing, and management service for consumers and business. You can use Stream now, but not yet if you have used Office 365 Video in the past. Microsoft has some work to do to make that transition flawless.

New Technologies at the Center of Outlook’s Future Outlook fans would be forgiven for thinking that all the oxygen in the Microsoft 365 collaboration ecosystem is being sucked out by Teams). But then a series of videos created for the virtual Ignite 2020 conference revealed that there’s life in this venerable product yet (given a…

Because Microsoft just held Build 2015 and Ignite 2015 back to back and I’m still not done traveling, this week’s other news includes conflicting rumors about Microsoft’s interest in buying Salesforce, how Windows as a service will impact Patch Tuesday, the higher cost of Office 365, Uber bids for Nokia’s HERE business, NSA data collection…

Microsoft has turned to the IT community for help with naming the successor to the Microsoft TechEd conference. What names would you suggest for Microsoft’s latest tech conference?

Publicity for Exchange for a Change I’ve been impressed by the amount of coverage given by mainstream IT reporters to Thursday’s announcement by the Exchange development group that they are rolling out a feature to suppress Reply-All storms. Few of the recent announcements by the Exchange group have received such attention, possibly because Teams hoovers…

The European SharePoint Conference took place in Dublin, Ireland this week. The SharePoint content was top-notch and the conference ran smoothly, but I was a little disappointed at the relative lack of Office 365 coverage despite the claim made in the conference moniker.