The PowerShell 7 scripting language is expected to reach "general availability" commercial release status in January, according to an Oct. 23 Microsoft announcement.
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 30, 2019
Microsoft changed group expiration controls for Office 365 so that groups now automatically renew with user activity, according to a Monday announcement.
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 29, 2019
Microsoft's top partner executive didn't mince words when it came to telling an audience of partners what the company considers to be its current top channel opportunity.
- By Gladys Rama
- October 27, 2019
Organizations could face costly compliance issues when purchasing Microsoft 365 subscription licenses, according to a recent presentation by Directions on Microsoft.
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 25, 2019
Starting in November, Microsoft will allow end users to effectively bypass their IT departments and make direct purchases related to the company's Power Platform.
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 23, 2019
Microsoft and its OEM partners are promising to stop Windows malware at the firmware level with new "Secured-core" PCs.
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 22, 2019
Microsoft has announced its acquisition of Mover, maker of a platform that assists medium-to-large companies in moving their files to cloud-based services.
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 21, 2019
Oracle co-CEO and former Hewlett-Packard chief executive Mark Hurd died last Friday at the age of 62 from unspecified causes.
- By John K. Waters
- October 21, 2019
Microsoft is partnering with SAP, a major player in the enterprise application software space, in an effort to bring more customers to its Azure cloud.
- By David Ramel
- October 21, 2019
An Azure Active Directory outage that lasted for about 2.5 hours was caused by multifactor authentication challenges not working, according to Microsoft.
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 18, 2019
Now generally available, Desktop Analytics gives organizations dashboard views of their managed Windows "endpoints, applications and drivers."
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 16, 2019
Microsoft expanded its IoT lineup this week, announcing the general availability of NXP support in Windows 10 IoT Core and the forthcoming release of SQL Server IoT 2019.
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 15, 2019
Microsoft will "soon" kick off an effort to help organizations better patch their software, with help from the National Institute of Standards and Technology.
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 10, 2019
Azure Spring Cloud, a developer service jointly built and operated by Pivotal Software and Microsoft, debuted as a private preview this week.
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 09, 2019
The SharePoint Migration Tool's ability to move SharePoint Server 2010 sites or file shares to SharePoint Online has reached general availability.
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 07, 2019
Microsoft announced that its OneDrive cloud-based storage service for consumers now has a new security feature called "Personal Vault" that's available worldwide.
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 04, 2019
Microsoft unveiled its coming Surface PC and device innovations on Wednesday, which also showcased partner efforts.
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 03, 2019
The change opens Microsoft's patch extension program to smaller and midsize organizations, but only if they are using the Professional or Enterprise editions of Windows 7.
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 01, 2019
First announced last fall and in preview since March, Microsoft's new Windows Virtual Desktop service is now generally available for commercial use.
- By Kurt Mackie
- September 30, 2019
Microsoft data scientists described how the company uses machine learning algorithms to ensure Windows 10 upgrades are rolled out successfully at organizations.
- By Kurt Mackie
- September 27, 2019