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With Mobile World Congress coming to a close in Barcelona, we now have a clearer picture of how Microsoft intends to deliver the mobile half of its “mobile first, cloud first” strategy in 2015. And while many had hoped for a more swaggering vision, the firm’s commitment to high-volume, low-margin hardware while delivering its most…

Looking to deploy Office 365? Check out Microsoft’s new ‘Fast Track’ deployment resources website for info you need for a successful roll-out.

ISVs are sometimes criticized because their backup products don’t do a great job of handling Office 365 data. That might be true, but the real issue is the lack of APIs delivered by Microsoft. The available APIs are rooted in an on-premises heritage and don’t cover apps like Teams which knit together multiple cloud components. Future developments will increase the challenge.

Microsoft’s decision to make its partners pay commercial rates for software licenses might seem logical at first glance, but it’s not helpful in a world where cloud technologies change so often. The problem I have is that anything that might prevent partners acquiring knowledge about Microsoft technologies is a bad thing for customers who depend on those partners. It should be interesting to see if any spirited debates happen at next week’s Inspire conference.

Because Project Olympus hasn’t yet fallen, this edition of Short Takes looks at a Wikileaks tech leak, Microsoft’s ARM server initiative, Google’s major new offensive against Microsoft’s enterprise businesses, Slack competitors, and more.

It’s been a couple of months since Microsoft introduced Security Copilot, an AI-powered assistant that’s designed to help cybersecurity professionals detect breaches. At its Ignite 2023 conference, the company announced a slew of new updates coming to Security Copilot and the expansion of AI-powered capabilities across all clouds and platforms. Vasu Jakkal, CVP of Security,…

No Data Compromised but Bad Day for Teams Retention Alarm bells went off on Thursday, October 29 when administrators in several tenants noticed that retention policies created to process Teams chat messages were apparently applied to Exchange mailboxes. Microsoft subsequently issued incident EX225368 “Admins may see Microsoft Teams retention policies unexpectedly update to Exchange Online…

Because I can’t stop interrupting Brad today, this edition of Short Takes focuses on the London police and their love affair with Windows XP, Xbox One success in July, Russia fines Google for antitrust abuses, and South Korea thinks about it, and much more.

Aidan Finn walks us through the installation of a guest OS from a Windows ISO image in this handy how-to article.

In this post, learn to use the virtual processor resource control settings to configure Hyper-V virtual machine reservations, limits, and weights.