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A New Start for Exchange PowerShell Last November, Microsoft announced a refresh of the Exchange Online PowerShell module at the Ignite 2019 conference. The big change was the introduction of nine cmdlets built on REST APIs to replace older cmdlets like Get-Mailbox and Get-MailboxStatistics. These cmdlets have been part of Exchange PowerShell since its introduction… Read More

Microsoft plans to match Zoom's 7x7 calling but that is likely not enough for the tool.

Along with last week's release of the Windows 10 May 2020 Update, Microsoft released Windows Server version 2004.

Outlook for Windows is introducing an option to allow users to save some settings in the Microsoft 365 cloud.

Know Data to Protect Data On May 14, Microsoft announced that discovery and review capabilities for labeled data and sensitive data types were generally available in the Microsoft 365 Compliance Center. Microsoft calls this “know your data,” part of their Information Protection and Governance framework. The idea is that if you understand your data, you… Read More

This month there is lots of new stuff and I am not even sure what my favorite is. Outlook reading to me, Power Apps letting me see the world differently, SharePoint being everywhere and nowhere at the same time, a bonus tip, and more. How about instead of me writing something clever you just dive… Read More

May was a busy month for Windows, with the release of the Windows 10 May 2020 Update and Build.

This week in Teams, we've been exploring some new functionality rolling out for use with Intune, meeting limits/meeting join improvements, interoperability settings and more.

Microsoft has announced today that Windows 10, version 2004 is now generally available

Microsoft announces GPU hardware acceleration and GUI app support for WSL 2 at Build 2020.

Should I Create a List or Some Tasks? Following Microsoft’s announcement about the new Lists application at the recent virtual Build conference, the thought might have crossed your mind that Microsoft 365 is accumulating too many ways to make lists. As in: Outlook tasks. To Do. Planner. OneNote. And that’s without counting Excel or Word,… Read More

It’s not too often that you realize an application that you are using frequently is missing some basic functionality. Especially with Teams, an application that is used by more than 75 million people every single day. But that’s the case with the search inside of Teams. While you can search from the top of the app… Read More

One of the big feature updates coming to Teams that many have been waiting for is the ability to chat with Skype contacts inside the Teams application. Microsoft stated that this feature would be available by the end of April but that timeline has come and gone. The company has posted a new message to its admin center and… Read More

If you read the headline and thought that this was some sort of an elaborate joke, this is not a drill. After years of developers asking Microsoft to build a package manager into Windows, those requests are finally being answered. Announced at Build 2020, the company is releasing a preview of the Windows Package Manager.… Read More

Microsoft has a dream, a dream that developers will build apps for all of its platforms with a single base of code. The company, for years, pitched the write once, run anywhere, idea to developers of Windows applications but the dream never materialized in a way that was widely adopted. The most notable attempt at… Read More