How to deploy a Windows Server Active Directory test environment in Microsoft Azure.

Microsoft’s Teams app has quickly become a cornerstone of the Office 365 platform. Offering a wide variety of customized experiences, the communication hub is a product that is receiving significant investment from senior management and today they are rolling out several new features.

Our second MJFChat, scheduled for Monday March 18, is between me and Lorraine Bardeen, Microsoft's General Manager of Engineering for Dynamics 365 Mixed Reality Apps.  The general topic of our chat is why it's not too early to start learning about Microsoft's new mixed-reality apps.

A question none of us like to think about too much is what we would do if a natural or man-made disaster took out Office 365 and disrupted service for an extended period. The good news is that the way Microsoft has built out Office 365 into datacenter regions helps to limit the effect of any outage, but the fact still remains that something bad could happen. What would you do then?

This month sees Microsoft patch two zero-days in Windows 7 and critical bugs in Windows Deployment Services and DHCP.

Microsoft's Azure platform offers a robust number of services and while it may sound expensive, it's easy to stay on a budget or even get some services for free.

Because it’s the ides of March, this edition of Short Takes looks at Huawei’s Plan B, a Windows 7 courtesy reminder, Windows 10 automatic driver rollback, Microsoft v. Foxconn, and much, much more.

On this edition of the Enterprise Dish with Aaron Suzuki, we dive into how little changes in Windows can have huge impacts on IT, Windows 10 momentum, and a lot more in the world of Windows.

Microsoft's rolling out a new service that is designed to make it easier to build content with integrated matchmaking, communication, and many other features for game developers.

Exchange 2019 has been around for six months. It's a good time to consider if on-premises organizations should upgrade or stick with the version of Exchange they run today. Exchange 2019 is a solid release, even if Microsoft's engineering efforts are largely focused on the cloud these days. Of course, moving to Exchange Online is an option too, but perhaps not for the dedicated on-premises deployments.

Hybrid cloud availability can be difficult because most businesses are running a mixture of many different technologies that all need to be available in order to support their business-critical applications. Availability in the hybrid cloud needs to begin at the design phase of your application infrastructure.

If your software hasn't made the switch to using Coordinated Universal Time, then now might be the right time.

Starting next month, Microsoft will be rolling out 'nag' screens for Windows 7 that will inform you that the OS will soon reach its end of life servicing.

Microsoft has deployed a new feature of Windows 10 that will automatically rollback failed updates when it detects a failed startup.

Artificial intelligence is of major interest to Microsoft right now, so it really shouldn't be a surprise that Jeffrey Snover, one of their technical chiefs, is now heading the charge to bring AI to the Office 365 substrate. Quite what this means for the internal operations of Office 365, applications and clients, and customers is to be seen, but some interesting times lie ahead in the evolution of Office 365.