Overview

On this edition of the Enterprise Dish, it's all about Windows 10, it's evolution, deployment, and a fantastic reader question about a specific scenario that likely applies to many IT Pros.

October, the first month in Q4 of the calendar year and Q2 of the Microsoft financial year, is also in the middle of planning for the next semester of development of Microsoft Azure (codenamed Cobalt).

On this episode of the Enterprise Dish, do you know who all has access to your shared content, Teams has a few changes, and Excel has a significant update.

Because it’s the most wonderful time of the quarter, this edition of Short Takes looks more closely at Microsoft’s latest blockbuster quarterly earnings report, in which the firm posted a net income of $13.9 billion on revenues of $37.2 billion.

In this article, I explain the differences between Basic Mobility and Security and Microsoft Intune, both MDM services from Microsoft.

Because we can only overcome this sense of dread with humor, this edition of Short Takes looks at Microsoft’s new work-from-home deadline, Office PWAs trigger a new Microsoft drama, a new version of Windows 10, a release of Microsoft Edge on Linux, and so much more.

On this iteration of the Petri Dish, we sit down with Cobalt Iron to talk about how they think about data protection and what makes their offering unique. You can learn more about Cobalt Iron, here.   

Because it’s the Ides of October, this edition of Short Takes looks at mounting antitrust scrutiny of Big Tech, a Satya Nadella call for a “referendum on capitalism,” some antitrust nostalgia from Bill Gates, a Microsoft AI for auto-captioning images, and much more.

Because it’s the end of the world as we know and I feel fine, this edition of Short Takes looks at Microsoft’s new flexible work-from-home edict, multiple Microsoft 365 outages, a weird Microsoft diversity issue, Microsoft’s app store guidelines, and so much more.

Many tasks within Windows are managed by the Windows Task Scheduler. This versatile task scheduling system, akin to cron in Linux, is used by both core Windows processes and by user programs alike.

On this edition of the Enterprise Dish, Microsoft is planning to make it easier to decipher update blocks, new Surface hardware is on the horizon, and Aaron helps out with updated unplugged hardware.

Microsoft has improved Mobile Device Management in Windows 10 and it now works more like Group Policy.

This post is sponsored by Semperis For twenty years, Active Directory (AD) has been the cornerstone of identity management. Despite the popularity of cloud computing, AD remains a key part of the infrastructure that almost every IT service relies on for its security. Active Directory is vulnerable to attack Active Directory was designed for a… Read More

Because this is no time for cowardice, this edition of Short Takes looks at Microsoft’s TikTok acquisition possibly being foiled by China, the clarity of the first wave of Surface Duo reviews, another win for Microsoft in the battle over JEDI, and so much more.

Petri's GET-IT: Office 365 Security 1-Day virtual conference is a full day of free learning dedicated to deep technical Microsoft Office 365 content aimed at accelerating the understanding of the security components of the platform as well as how to execute tasks securely inside the environment.