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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;…

Microsoft has a very competent PR engine that is skilled at pumping news out that’s designed to thrill and excite people. We saw this happening in full flood on July 8 when Microsoft announced a set of improvements for Teams meetings. Now that the fuss surrounding the announcements has calmed down, it’s time to take…

Microsoft is rolling out new features that will overhaul the meeting experience in Teams with new views, engagement tools, and more.

PowerShell function that supports the WhatIf parameter and how you can use it to make your PowerShell functions even more solid

The Joy of Seeing Everyone In June, Brad discussed the need for Teams to match the 7 x 7 grid view supported by Zoom. It’s a competitive need not to be perceived as a laggard in the video conferencing space at a time when home working makes remote conferences a necessity. Simply put, it’s cool…

In the final episode of the series, Stephen and Paul discuss Power Apps, Power Automate, and the Microsoft Graph, and reflect on what they’ve learned since the pandemic has forced us all into a new normal of working remotely.

One of the most popular tools for managing multiple remote desktop connections has been the Microsoft Remote Desktop Connection Manager.

Microsoft Forces More Artificial Intelligence onto Office 365 Tenants On May 13, Microsoft issued Office 365 notification MC212676 to inform tenants that a new Cortana daily briefing email was coming, saying: “The Briefing email from Cortana helps users start their day on track by surfacing information on upcoming meetings and outstanding tasks as well as…

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;…

Microsoft changes meeting limit size, again, adds more controls for backgrounds, and suggested replies are coming soon.

Along with last week’s release of the Windows 10 May 2020 Update, Microsoft released Windows Server version 2004.

This month there is lots of new stuff and I am not even sure what my favorite is. Outlook reading to me, Power Apps letting me see the world differently, SharePoint being everywhere and nowhere at the same time, a bonus tip, and more. How about instead of me writing something clever you just dive…