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On this edition of the Enterprise Dish, we dive into the success of Server Core, taking Ignite head-on, and MFA outages.

Windows 10X is coming to new foldable dual-screen devices and clamshell laptops, robots are invading Windows 10, all businesses can buy Windows 7 Extended Security Updates starting December 1st, and Server Core is now in fashion thanks to Windows Admin Center.

It’s the month before Ignite and even though the company will announce lots of updates next week, October had a couple of surprises too.

Microsoft started using machine learning (ML) to manage the rollout of Windows 10 feature updates with the Windows 10 April 2018 Update (version 1803). In a new blog post by Microsoft’s Archana Ramesh and Michael Stephenson, both data scientists for Microsoft Cloud and AI, the company outlines improvements made since then.

On this edition of the Enterprise Dish, Microsoft announced new hardware and new versions of Windows but its the little details (and footnotes) that you need to know about.

On this edition of the Enterprise Dish, Dux has technology from the future, Ignite doesn’t need to be overwhelming, and a few sessions to checkout.

In a rather odd decision, Microsoft is launching self-service purchases for Office 365 tenant users who want to use the Power Platform without consulting an administrator. Another troubling sign is the way that the MailItemsAccessed audit event has been packaged into a new Microsoft 365 Audit feature. Tenants expected to see this audit event last January after Microsoft announced it was coming. Its subsequent disappearance was a mystery until now.

On this edition of the Enterprise Dish, Microsoft has a brand new virtual desktop offering, Google is making a move for the enterprise, and a lot more on this IT Pro focused podcast.

Collections has made it to the Dev channel for Microsoft Edge Insiders. In this Ask the Admin, I look at how Collections works and where it might be useful.

Adoption and Change Management are often discussed when companies move to cloud services, including Office 365. How quickly can we adopt the new services and how can we manage change? As it happens, Microsoft is extremely interested in driving customer adoption, so much so that this can cause problems with change management simply because so much change happens so quickly insist Office 365. As we discuss here, a structured approach to change management helps.

On this edition of the Enterprise Dish, we take on the task of how to help those who prefer to stick with email, instead of Teams.

This month Microsoft patches two zero-days that could lead to elevation of privileges and more Remote Desktop Protocol bugs.