Phishing attacks, end user device security and training were among the top issues cited by respondents of Microsoft's survey on the effects of COVID-19 remote work conditions.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 26, 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
The January 2022 end date for Microsoft's "Open License program" applies to government, education and nonprofit organizations, not just commercial customers.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 21, 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
Starting April 1, Microsoft plans to increase its service-level agreement (SLA) for Azure Active Directory to "four nines" of uptime -- or 99.99 percent -- each month.
- By Kurt Mackie
- January 05, 2021
Microsoft releases continued apace even as the pandemic upended business plans throughout the year.
- By RCP Staff
- December 30, 2020
With COVID-19 changing the way customers do business, the pandemic's impact on partners was a hot topic for readers this year.
- By RCP Staff
- December 23, 2020
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
Azure Stack HCI is now generally available from Microsoft, in conjunction with its hardware partners.
- By Kurt Mackie
- December 14, 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
Microsoft's Azure Digital Twins service for modeling physical environments is now generally available over two years after being released as a preview.
- By Kurt Mackie
- December 09, 2020
New devices for making Microsoft Teams conference calls are coming down the pipeline from Microsoft hardware partners.
- By Kurt Mackie
- December 07, 2020
Microsoft this week described release milestones for several of its emerging cloud data management products.
- By Kurt Mackie
- December 03, 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
Windows Autopilot, Microsoft's PC self-provisioning program, is now being tested for use with the company's mixed-reality headset, the HoloLens 2.
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 20, 2020