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Because just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in, this edition of Short Takes looks at Microsoft’s continued concessions to the customers that matter most, an Office 365 throttling issue, weather v. Microsoft, and much more.

I have known about Azure File Sync for quite a while under NDA and have been itching to start talking about it. It’s a killer service that an incredible number of businesses could benefit from.

In the first part of this series, I look at the basics of Microsoft’s new Windows Virtual Desktop service.

MC689933 – Announced at Ignite 2023, Bing Chat Enterprise has been renamed to Microsoft Copilot. Copilot offers the same commercial data protection for Entra ID (work account) users as Bing Chat Enterprise did. Users will also be able to experience Copilot from a new location: copilot.microsoft.com. Entra ID users with Microsoft 365 E3, E5, Business Standard,…

Microsoft has changed up some of its organizational structure as well as combing a couple of teams in its mixed reality org.

Learn about Microsoft’s recent updates, add-ons, and improvements to System Center 2012, Windows Intune, and Windows Azure — all designed to give IT managers more control over cloud resources.

Protecting core infrastructure components like SQL Server is certainly one of the database professional first priorities. However, for those businesses still running SQL Server 2008/R2, that’s become a problem.

Microsoft has released a new optional update for Windows 10 and Windows 11 version 22H2. This release brings bug fixes for a critical security issue that was previously preventing the Windows kernel vulnerable driver blocklist from being synced to older versions of Windows. The hypervisor-protected code integrity (HVCI) feature is designed to protect Windows users…

Because I do not like it Sam-I-Am, this week’s edition of Short Takes looks at Windows 10 version 1803 out in the wild, Microsoft’s coming Office UI change, new Surface PCs, and much, much more.

The Event Viewer tool in Windows and Windows Server first appeared in 1993. So, Microsoft has decided that it’s time for an update. And as might be expected, rather than update the built-in Windows management console snap-in, Microsoft has opted to bring the new Events tool to Windows Admin Center (WAC). And it is now…