service health

With August now behind us, here's a look at the major announcements from this month.

The half-year point has passed meaning that Azure (and Windows/Windows Server) are into a new planning & development cycle.

Aidan Finn examines Microsoft's new feature that allows you to control the forced outages that occur to virtual machines when patches are delivered to Azure’s compute hosts.

Office 365 Connectors provide a means to connect network data sources such as Twitter, Trello, and RSS feeds to Office 365 Groups and Microsoft Teams. The out-of-the-box connectors work well, but there’s nothing like being able to process your own data, which is exactly what the Incoming Webhook connector allows you to do. In this example, we grab some Office 365 service incident information and post it to a group. All a mere matter of writing some PowerShell code.