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On this edition of the Enterprise Dish, we dive into a reader question about how to spend a small amount of money and maximize your backup and recovery experience for small businesses. 

It may be the middle of Summer but there is a lot going on with Azure, this is what you need to know about Azure for the month of July.

In part 1 of this series, we discussed how to setup Office 365 Information Barriers. We now get to the practical application of those barriers to stop different user groups communicating with Teams. Chats and VOIP calls are blocked, users are removed from team membership, and generally everything works as you’d expect.

Office 365 Information Barriers allow organizations to erect logical firewalls between different user communities to ensure that regulatory and legal requirements are met. Teams and Exchange Online support Information Barrier policies, which replace Address Book Policies. Some work is necessary to get Information Barriers set up. We cover that work in this article and prepare the ground for deploying the policies to Teams.

On this edition of Enterprise Dish, Dux is back from Inspire, Teams passes a major milestone and exploring new food.

On this edition of the Enterprise Dish, we dive into the details you need to know about to make sure your applications are ready for Windows 10.

Microsoft dug themselves out of a pit of pain last Friday when they reversed the decision to nix some popular partner benefit just before the Inspire conference in Las Vegas. However, the world is changing and the cloud is where the action is. Microsoft pays to deliver services from the cloud and that cost must be either absorbed internally or transmitted to partners. That simple fact makes it sure that difficult conversations await in the future.

Microsoft is rolling back changes to its partner program and will keep IUR benefits…for now.

On this episode of the Enterprise Dish, Microsoft provides guidance on 19h2, big changes to the partner program, and we dish on the 4th.

Generation 2 virtual machines (VMs) have been available in Hyper-V since Windows Server 2012 R2 and they provide several important features that weren’t supported by generation 1 VMs, some of which are now available in Azure VMs.

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.

Microsoft is once again changing up how it will service Windows 10; while these updates are not as significant, they do move the cheese a little bit again.