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			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- February 04, 2021
 
            
                
	                 
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft plans to merge its OneDrive and SharePoint Admin Center management portals, with a consolidated portal expected to arrive for subscribers "through February."
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- January 27, 2021
 
            
                
	                 
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft and SAP this week announced plans to integrate Microsoft Teams with SAP solutions, a notable expansion of their existing collaboration around Microsoft Azure. 
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- January 22, 2021
 
            
                
	                 
                    
                                        
		            
                    At a talk this week, a top Microsoft executive described the role of Teams and SharePoint in a world of remote-work environments. 
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- January 20, 2021
 
            
                
	                 
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft is touting the benefits of Teams in an effort to convince users of Skype for Business, which stands to lose support in a few months, to migrate.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- January 15, 2021
 
            
                
	                 
                    
                                        
		            
                    FastTrack, Microsoft's onboarding support program for organizations, now covers Microsoft 365 Defender security solutions.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- January 13, 2021
 
            
                
	                 
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft this week announced that its Office 2019 and Microsoft 365 apps are now able to run on Mac devices using Apple's M1 silicon.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- December 15, 2020
 
            
                
	                 
                    
                                        
		            
                    SharePoint Online now has 200 million active users, according to Microsoft officials, double what it had about a year ago.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- December 10, 2020
 
            
                
	                 
                    
                                        
		            
                    New devices for making Microsoft Teams conference calls are coming down the pipeline from Microsoft hardware partners. 
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- December 07, 2020
 
            
                
	                 
                    
                                        
		            
                    Salesforce has announced its intent to acquire Slack for an estimated $27.7 billion in a deal that would fuse two of Microsoft's biggest rivals in the business applications space.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- December 02, 2020
 
            
                
	                 
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft is preparing to roll out a more stripped-down Microsoft 365 Admin Center interface designed for "very small businesses."
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- December 02, 2020
 
            
                
	                 
                    
                                        
		            
                    The ability to show user names in Microsoft 365 Productivity Score has been removed in response to concerns that it may be used to snoop on employees.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- December 01, 2020
 
            
                
	                 
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft is readying a bunch of Microsoft 365 and SharePoint Online improvements, including a new "My Feed" Web Part and more Microsoft Graph connectors. 
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- November 30, 2020
 
            
                
	                 
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft has announced the general availability of Microsoft Dataverse for Teams, a data platform that works with its Power Platform suite.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- November 16, 2020
 
            
                
	                 
                    
                                        
		            
                    Two months after acquiring Binary Tree, Quest Software is again padding its Office 365 migration portfolio with the acquisition of partner Quadrotech.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- November 10, 2020