Microsoft’s digital assistant may not always be at the front of the digital-AI conversations but the company is adding new features to the platform at Ignite 2019. Announced today, are new briefing emails and scheduler functionality.
Windows 10X is coming to new foldable dual-screen devices and clamshell laptops, robots are invading Windows 10, all businesses can buy Windows 7 Extended Security Updates starting December 1st, and Server Core is now in fashion thanks to Windows Admin Center.
by Shane Young
It's the month before Ignite and even though the company will announce lots of updates next week, October had a couple of surprises too.
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SharePoint Online now boasts the ability to rename site URLs, which seems good, but not so good when you discover that the new URL breaks the connection with Teams. The fact that this happens is revealed in Microsoft documentation and it's been a problem since the beta testing of the site rename function. Microsoft seems curiously disinterested in fixing the problem as quickly as they should have. A case of attention distracted elsewhere?
Microsoft says that since the general availability of Windows Server 2019, it has seen the fastest adoption rate for Server Core in history.
This week Microsoft announced the general availability of Desktop Analytics, a new cloud service that integrates with System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) to provide insight and intelligence so organizations can make informed decisions about whether Windows endpoints are ready to be upgraded.
by Brad Sams
Earlier this week, Microsoft posted strong earnings with its cloud division continuing to push the stock price higher. Announced today by the U.S Defense Department, Microsoft has won the lucrative JEDI (Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure) contract besting its rival Amazon as well as Oracle and other providers.
by Brad Sams
Microsoft has reported it's Q1 FY earnings with Office 365 and the company's cloud services pushing the revenue needle higher.
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Javier Soltero, ex-boss of Outlook, is now running G Suite for Google. The appointment is an opportunity to reboot G Suite to take on Office 365 and make up some of the ground that's been lost in the last five years using the "new brush sweeps clean" principle. In other news, Microsoft bought Mover to acquire its migration connectors that move files into SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business, including files from Google Drive.
by Brad Sams
Microsoft has acquired Mover and will integegreat the technology into its Microsoft 365 migrations solutions.
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.
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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.
by Tony Redmond
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.