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Microsoft has released the Report Message add-in for Outlook 2016 to help Office 365 users report when spam arrives into Inboxes or messages are incorrectly treated as Junk. It’s a good way to get information about new threats to Microsoft security researchers.

Joseph Finney explains why there are so few popular desktop apps in the Windows app store.

Because Spring is finally in the air, this edition of Short Takes looks at Microsoft’s customer satisfaction win over Apple, the Windows Insider Program for businesses, Xbox “Project Scorpio”, and much, much more.

Resource Policy is a very nice feature in Azure Resource Manager that allows you to control what delegated administrators can do in an Azure subscription or resource group.

Microsoft’s Windows as a Service model for Windows 10 brings with it many benefits but it is also creating a few issues as well for IT Pros.

Microsoft Planner added the ability to assign multiple people to a task. It’s a good step, but it’s the first new feature in nine months. That’s curious when you compare to the development cadence of other Office 365 applications.

Shane Young and Todd Klindt discuss March patches, Microsoft Identity Management with SharePoint 2016, Shane’s new computer, automatically created Office 365 groups, creation of direct reports groups in Outlook, not using @ in the SAMAccountName, SAM-Account-Name attribute specs, Outlook sign-in assistant, Azure active directory, integration with Github, and SQL data partners.

Shane Young and Todd Klindt talk about the latest Windows 10 Insider build and its cool features, Enterprise Mobility hitting 85 million users, Azure AD, some authentication issues, and Shane gets upset about patches.

Shane Young and Todd Klindt discuss the most popular version of SharePoint, the release of the new SharePoint Online management cmdlets, Azure AD Connect, the SharePoint Framework roadmap, a little Hotmail hacking, their love of BGInfo, and Google Docs.

After an extensive trial, Microsoft is preparing to release the Office 365 Adoption Content Pack to all enterprise tenants. Gaining insight into how people use the Office 365 applications will help tenants maximize their investment in the cloud. However, the content pack is not a silver bullet and won’t make your organization any more effective than it is today.

Microsoft plans to auto-generate Office 365 Groups for managers to enable them to collaborate better with employees. Sounds good, until you realize that the reporting relationships stored in Azure Active Directory drive the process. And we all know how reliable that information really is.

The Microsoft Teams application is now generally available. Lots has been done to improve Teams since its preview release and Microsoft has made many good updates. Some edges remain for Microsoft to work on, but Teams is now more than a valid competitor for Slack in the chat-based collaboration market.