In a bid to give end users more collaborative tools, Microsoft said it will begin connecting its Yammer enterprise social networking solution with the Groups functionality in Office 365.
- By Gladys Rama
- March 03, 2017
Organizations anticipating difficulties in carrying out future Windows Server or SQL Server upgrades can now purchase insurance-type plans from Microsoft.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 03, 2017
Microsoft is beginning to roll out a new service health dashboard to Office 365 subscribers, the company announced on Wednesday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 02, 2017
The upcoming Windows 10 Creators Update will come with new user controls, as demonstrated by Microsoft this week.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 02, 2017
The third and final technical preview (TP) of Azure Stack, Microsoft's solution for organizations that want to run the Azure public cloud platform in private datacenters, is now available.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- March 01, 2017
Microsoft this week issued a reminder of Exchange Server 2007's impending support deadline.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 01, 2017
A pair of Azure Active Directory monitoring capabilities are now out of the preview stage.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 28, 2017
Microsoft has quietly released a premium, ad-free version of its Outlook.com e-mail service, testing consumers' appetite to pay for personal e-mail services that they've used at no cost for decades.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- February 28, 2017
Microsoft's SharePoint Framework is now ready for commercial use, having reached the "general availability" milestone on Thursday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 24, 2017
Microsoft this week announced some new SharePoint features and capabilities, both immediately available and still to come later this year.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 23, 2017
As part of a multi-year cloud partnership with Microsoft, Veritas Software on Wednesday announced it is migrating its Enterprise Vault.cloud (EV.cloud ) data archiving service from its own managed datacenters to Microsoft Azure.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- February 22, 2017
Microsoft on Tuesday announced new support for Kubernetes, a Google-fostered open source technology, in its Azure Container Service.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 22, 2017
As they each expand their cloud footprints in Europe, Microsoft and Amazon Web Services (AWS) are touting their support for the European Union's newly revamped data privacy regulations.
- By Gladys Rama
- February 17, 2017
A recent presentation by SmartDeploy, a Seattle-based firm that makes Windows and application deployment solutions, included an explanation from a Microsoft product manager of how imaging works under its Volume Licensing program.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 16, 2017
Amazon Web Services (AWS) launched a new enterprise unified communications (UC) service this week named Chime, pitting it against the likes of Microsoft's Skype for Business and Cisco's WebEx.
- By David Ramel
- February 15, 2017
Microsoft plans to roll out new Yammer desktop applications for Windows and Mac PCs "in the next few months," the company said on Tuesday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 15, 2017
SailPoint, a provider of identity governance solutions, has entered into a partnership with Microsoft centered around the Azure Active Directory identity and access management service.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 14, 2017
Microsoft has unveiled a new Secure Score feature for Office 365, enabling organizations to score their Office 365 security postures based on what settings are applied to their accounts, data and devices.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- February 13, 2017
To coincide with this week's RSA security conference, Microsoft has put Windows 10's security improvements in the spotlight.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 13, 2017
Microsoft this week announced the addition of datacenter and networking giant Cisco to its list of approved hardware partners for the upcoming Azure Stack solution.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- February 10, 2017