Windows Server 2012 users have a few extra months to take advantage of Microsoft's "extended support" coverage, according to a recent change in Microsoft's Lifecycle Policy page.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 20, 2017
Microsoft this week unveiled a new SharePoint Server 2013 feature called "Hybrid Self-Service Site Creation," enabling organizations running on-premises SharePoint to direct user site creation requests to Office 365 services.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 15, 2017
Microsoft on Tuesday began its global rollout of the new Microsoft Teams chat service for Office 365 business subscribers.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 14, 2017
Microsoft is readying a preview of a new capability that would integrate the "modern" SharePoint command bar with Microsoft's Flow workflow tool, the company said this week.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 14, 2017
A number of Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals (MVPs) recently gave their assessments of Microsoft Teams, which is scheduled to become generally available on Tuesday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 13, 2017
Microsoft on Thursday announced a preview of a new Azure Active Directory management option called "Limited Access to SharePoint and OneDrive."
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 10, 2017
Microsoft put the spotlight on its datacenter design effort called Project Olympus, including its partnerships with chip makers, during this week's Open Compute Project (OCP) U.S. Summit event.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 09, 2017
Microsoft revealed this week that it is currently running Windows Server on ARM machines in its datacenters using chips from multiple vendors, including Qualcomm and Cavium.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 08, 2017
Many of the SharePoint user improvements that Microsoft promised at its SharePoint 2016 launch event last year are starting to take shape.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 08, 2017
Windows Insiders are currently putting Microsoft's newly reformatted Windows 10 update packages through their paces.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 07, 2017
Most commercial Office 365 subscribers now have access to the Visio Online process-mapping service, Microsoft announced last week.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 06, 2017
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