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On this episode, I cover all of the Microsoft news this week including the on-going problems with Microsoft hardware, Skype Teams, Ignite, and good riddance to an annoying pop-up.

[Sponsored] With the increasing sophistication of hackers, and the rising black market price of sensitive data IT has a huge target on its back which means a SIEM solutions are critical.

Azure recently experienced a nasty outage, lasting several hours. It seems to have been centered around DNS, but had wide side effects. Microsoft’s cloud platform took something of a beating. By the sound of it, a DDoS could have been to blame. Or not. Redmond isn’t saying…

On this episode, I cover all of the Microsoft news this week including Surface AIO dreams, Band debacles, a new build of Windows 10 with a few hints tucked away and a lot more in the world of Microsoft

On this episode, I cover all of the Microsoft news this week including a hardware event for October, changes in Windows Insider provisioning, Scropio, Sony and it’s impossible to avoid those iPhones.

Microsoft has put a huge amount of emphasis on Office 365 Groups as the basis for team-based collaboration for its cloud service. Collaboration often requires input from external people and that hasn’t been possible until now. The announcement of external user support for Office 365 Groups is welcome, even if it is restricted in part.

On this episode, I cover all of the Microsoft news this week including a couple new discoveries for Redstone 2, Outlook deployments, Windows as a Service gets a new price point, and a lot more.

This post will discuss the recent announcement that Microsoft has added support for backing up VMware virtual machines using System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM) 2012 R2.

It is clear from Microsoft’s publicity about Windows Server 2016 that the corporation believes that the default choice for installing a new server is Nano Server. Do you agree with that view? In this opinion post, I discuss the merits of both sides of the argument, share my take on the matter, and ask what you think.

In today’s Ask the Admin, I’ll show you how to sign up for Microsoft Flow and create a simple workflow that posts a tweet with a hashtag from your Twitter account to your Slack channel.

In this post I’ll provide a brief overview of IFTTT and Zapier and Microsoft’s contribution to the user-friendly, user-powered workflow services tool, Microsoft Flow.

On this episode, I cover all of the Microsoft news this week including more issues with the Anniversary update, patches going rouge, and fragmentation.