Overview

Because Microsoft announced its quarterly earnings this week, this edition of Short Takes looks exclusively at the results across all of the software giant’s major business units.

There are lots of ways that you can remotely manage Windows devices. But some of them require direct network connectivity to the remote devices.

Windows Hello and FIDO2 security keys both provide passwordless authentication. But which is best depends on your organization's existing infrastructure and user needs.

Petri's GET-IT: SharePoint 1-Day virtual conference is a full day of free learning dedicated to technical content aimed at IT Pros who are looking to enhance their knowledge and skills for SharePoint development, migrations, administration, and utilization. During this free day of learning, we will be streaming to YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, Petri.com, and other locations… Read More

One of the biggest malware attacks in recent history was the SolarWinds exploit where malware was spread through SolarWinds’ software update process to thousands of government and private sector customers. SolarWinds is a well-known provider of IT management products and their Orion infrastructure monitoring and management platform was the product that was attacked. Automatic updates… Read More

Happy new year! I'm writing this article at the end of my first day back at work since November. I have barely looked at any work-related stuff in the last month. Writing this article will give me a chance to catch up with thing. App Service Anti-Virus Logs in Public Preview Microsoft has announced that… Read More

On this edition of the Enterprise Dish, we dive into the scale-out story of 2020, reverse migrations, and predictions for 2021.

Microsoft released a report in late October to demonstrate how well Microsoft 365 meets the compliance needs of the financial sector subject to U.S. regulations. The level of inaccuracy in the text meant that I didn’t think much of the report. In any case, the report placed great emphasis on two developments. The first was… Read More

Network Unlock allows devices connected to a wired network to automatically unlock BitLocker-protected OS drives.

On this episode of the Enterprise Dish, Windows 2020 in review, a look ahead for Windows and SmartDeploy in 2021 and it's impossible to avoid the SolarWinds conversation.

Petri’s GET-IT: Azure DevOps 1-Day virtual conference is a day of free learning dedicated to deep technical content aimed at IT Pros and Developers who are looking to enhance their knowledge and skills for developing, deploying, managing, and scaling their operations. Throughout the day you will hear from Microsoft MVPs and industry experts about how to get… Read More

Petri’s GET-IT: Azure DevOps 1-Day virtual conference is a full day of free learning dedicated to deep technical content aimed at IT Pros and Developers who are looking to enhance their knowledge and skills for developing, deploying, managing, and scaling their operations.

Very Useful Sensitivity Labels Microsoft has steadily been building out the ability of sensitivity labels to manage different aspects of containers (teams, groups, and sites), with the ability to control the external sharing capability for SharePoint Online team sites the latest addition (Figure 1). Image 1 Expand Figure 1: Defining external sharing capability in a sensitivity… Read More

Because it’s the most wonderful time of a less than wonderful year, this edition of Short Takes looks at Microsoft’s 2020 holiday commercial, Salesforce wastes $27.7 billion, Microsoft’s controversy of the week, 1100 new Teams features, yet another way to update Windows 10, and so much more.

Following Personal Support in Teams Mobile Clients On November 19, just before things started to wind down for the Thanksgiving holidays, Microsoft announced the preview of “personal” features in the Teams desktop and browser clients. Preview availability for personal features on desktop (Windows only) and browsers follows up the debut of Teams at home for… Read More