Because corporate executives are paid far too much, this edition of Short Takes looks at top Microsoft executive salaries, an ironic Windows 10 patch, a presidential candidate who mocked Bing, Apple’s most pointless stat ever, and much, much more.

Microsoft's Surface Pro 6 celebrated its first birthday, here's how my device has held up during the first year of availability.

A closer look at the Microsoft Defender Tamper Protection feature that rolled out in the Windows 10 May 2019 Update and that is soon to be enabled by default for all users.

Office 365 applications now create many guest accounts in Azure Active Directory. You can see what accounts exist, but it's more difficult to discover who created the accounts - or why they were created. Fortunately, the Office 365 audit log holds a lot of useful data that can be interrogated to find some answers and PowerShell is a great tool for slicing and dicing audit data. See what you think of the answers I've come up with.

How to connect Windows Server to Microsoft’s modern cloud-native SIEM solution Azure Sentinel.

The fit-and-finish quality within Office 365 is sometimes less than desirable. Two recent changes in SharePoint Online make it easier for users to know when a document library is connected to Teams and to generate thumbnails for items stored in the library. Neither change is awe-inspiring, but both are examples of how to improve SharePoint's fit-and-finish, which is a good thing.

According to a recent blog post by Bruce Sherwin, a member of Microsoft’s Hyper-V Development Team, Cloud & AI, the hypervisor development team is working on bringing VBS to everyone and enabling it by default.

In today’s Ask the Admin, I look at how Microsoft is preparing to release the Windows 10 November 2019 Update (19H2) and plans to service the May and November 2019 updates together. Insider for Business customers can also get prerelease support.

Because I embrace my AI overlords, this edition of Short Takes looks at the next version of Windows 10, Microsoft’s AI art installation, whether Surface is really profitable, whether Microsoft’s embrace of Linux is real or a secret plot, and so much more.

PowerShell 7.0 introduces a familiar mainstay of most programming languages, the Ternary Operator. Using a much shorter syntax for if/then logic, it makes defining conditional values for properties much more concise and easy to read.

Microsoft Ignite 2019 is in four weeks, so now's a good time to start browsing the session catalog to find interesting sessions to attend in person or listen to afterwards. I've been through the catalog to find some sessions and present my list here. Feel free to disagree and find other sessions in the > 1,400 listed already.

This month is light on security fixes and there are no zero-days but there are still plenty of critical flaws that need patching.

Seamlessly extending your local storage to the cloud is what hybrid cloud storage appliances offer. Sometimes these hybrid cloud storage options are extensions to local storage systems or sometimes they are specifically designed for hybrid cloud storage.

Microsoft announced September 25th on its Security blog that Azure Sentinel has reached general availability. Based on Azure Monitor Log Analytics, Sentinel adds a cloud-native Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) solution to Azure’s already long list of services.

Our next MJFChat, between me and Jeremy Moskowitz, Founder and CTO of MDMandGPanswers.com and PolicyPak Software, will be all about modern management using MDM services and Intune.