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Never Mind, Microsoft Won’t Retire Top Senders and Recipient Report

Earlier this year, Microsoft announced that they had planned to retire the top senders and recipient report from Microsoft Defender for Office 365. While I do not know the exact thought process Microsoft went through when making this decision, they clearly didn’t anticipate the widespread backlash from its users. And it sounds like the feedback…

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MJFChat: What’s New With Windows Update?

Last Update: Jul 29, 2025

We’re doing a twice-monthly interview show on Petri.com that is dedicated to covering topics of interest to our tech-professional audience. We have branded this show “MJFChat.” In my role as Petri’s Community Magnate, I will be interviewing a variety of IT-savvy technology folks. Some of these will be Petri contributors; some will be tech-company employees;…

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New ‘Show Changes’ feature Coming to Excel for the Web

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

One of Microsoft Excel’s Project Managers (PMs) on the Office Insider team recently published another ‘Feature deep dive‘. They announced a coming feature called Show Changes, which will allow authors more confidence when sharing and collaborating with others on Excel for the Web. ‘Show Changes’ will allow users sharing Excel files on OneDrive or SharePoint…

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Microsoft Lists – An Evolution of SharePoint Lists

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Welcome to SharePoint Lists! – At least that’s how Microsoft likely worded their introduction back in 2001 (Wow!). The purpose of this post is to give a little background on what a SharePoint List is, the evolution over the years to the newer ‘Modern List’ in mid-to-late 2016, and the announcement of the new Microsoft…

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Microsoft Endpoint Manager’s Updates Aim to Simplify Mobile Device Management Policy Creation

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Rolling out in public preview early February 2021, Microsoft is adding a new feature to its Endpoint Manager (MEM) solution called settings catalog.

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Everything You Need to Know About Azure Infrastructure – February 2021 Edition

Over the last couple of weeks, I’ve spotted lots of tiny little changes in the Azure Portal. And my feeds have lit up over the last few hours. There must be a big Microsoft conference happening right around now? Yup, Microsoft Ignite (March 2021) is here and that means there will be lots of cool…

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Everything You Need to Know About Windows – February 2021

In February, Microsoft announced its plans to release Windows 10 version 21H1 and that Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC support will be cut from 10 years to 5. And Windows 10 ‘in cloud configuration’ is a new recommended device configuration that can be applied to remote devices for frontline workers and others. Plus, much more. So,…

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MJFChat: How to Get Started With Azure

Last Update: Jul 29, 2025

We’re doing a twice-monthly interview show on Petri.com that is dedicated to covering topics of interest to our tech-professional audience. We have branded this show “MJFChat.” In my role as Petri’s Community Magnate, I will be interviewing a variety of IT-savvy technology folks. Some of these will be Petri contributors; some will be tech-company employees;…

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Reactions are Headed to Outlook on the web and Mobile, Shows Promise but Significant Gaps Remain

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

If you don’t use something often, then you might even forget it exists. When I read that reactions in Outlook are rolling out soon, I had to go and check that the like button, which launched in 2015, still existed in Outlook on the web. The like button still exists and was one of the…

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Security

Understanding Microsoft Defender and its Many Layers

Last Update: Jul 01, 2022

Microsoft Defender has many layers and trying to understand all of the different components can be complex.

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MJFChat: Understanding Microsoft’s Employee Experience Vision

Last Update: Jul 29, 2025

We’re doing a twice-monthly interview show on Petri.com that is dedicated to covering topics of interest to our tech-professional audience. We have branded this show “MJFChat.” In my role as Petri’s Community Magnate, I will be interviewing a variety of IT-savvy technology folks. Some of these will be Petri contributors; some will be tech-company employees;…

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MJFChat: Dynamics 365: What IT Pros Need to Know About Its Past, Present and Future

Last Update: Jul 29, 2025

We’re doing a twice-monthly interview show on Petri.com that is dedicated to covering topics of interest to our tech-professional audience. We have branded this show “MJFChat.” In my role as Petri’s Community Magnate, I will be interviewing a variety of IT-savvy technology folks. Some of these will be Petri contributors; some will be tech-company employees;…

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