Microsoft last week released test build 17704 of Windows 10 "Redstone 5," but missing from the feature lineup was one of the company's most innovative contributions to productivity.
- By Scott Bekker
- July 02, 2018
Organizations can now make phone calls from the Microsoft Teams client by way of the newly available Direct Routing phone service capability.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 29, 2018
After a one-year preview period, Azure IoT Edge is now available via the GitHub open source code repository, marking another milestone in Microsoft's commitment to the open source movement.
- By David Ramel
- June 28, 2018
On Tuesday, Microsoft's online Windows Server Summit event indicated what's to come with Windows Server 2019.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 27, 2018
A new feature preview represents the next step in Microsoft's plan to make multifactor authentication (MFA) the default verification option for its Azure Active Directory (AD) identity management service.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 25, 2018
Microsoft's Exchange team recently announced several updates coming to the e-mail server, including support for Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 3 (SP3) on Windows Server 2016.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 22, 2018
Organizations can now use a newly released Microsoft service called "Traffic Analytics" to monitor network activity within their Azure environments.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 22, 2018
Microsoft on Wednesday announced its acquisition of Berkeley, Calif.-based AI startup Bonsai for an undisclosed amount.
- By Becky Nagel
- June 20, 2018
Microsoft this week released a new preview build of Windows Server 2019 alongside previews of related tooling, including a new predictive analytics service called System Insights.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 20, 2018
Microsoft is readying a new Office 365 capability that will let organizations running hybrid Microsoft Exchange scenarios to transfer policies between Exchange Server and Exchange Online.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 19, 2018
Based on its telemetry findings, Microsoft now declares that the April 2018 release of Windows 10 (also known as version 1803 and previously code-named "Redstone 4") can advance to the "fully available" stage.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 14, 2018
Starting in September, users of Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2 (SP2) will receive their updates via a monthly rollup patch release.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 14, 2018
Microsoft is priming Teams, its enterprise collaboration application, to run on different types of conference room touchscreen devices and phones.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 13, 2018
Microsoft this week gave another argument against Windows 10's long-term servicing channel (LTSC) update option for organizations.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 12, 2018
Microsoft is planning to expand the availability of Azure Stack to 92 countries, doubling the number from the product's initial launch back at last year's Microsoft Ignite event.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 11, 2018
Microsoft's out-of-the-box PC-provisioning service is getting some new features to make it easier for end users to set up company-issued Windows 10 devices themselves.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 08, 2018
Much of the spotlight at this week's Computex industry event was on Microsoft's hardware partners that are breaking new ground with Internet of Things (IoT) and "intelligent edge" devices.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 08, 2018
"Project Natick," Microsoft's experimental datacenter that cools itself by being immersed under ocean waters, has reached the next phase of development.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 07, 2018
In a process that will take place "over the next few weeks," Microsoft said on Tuesday that it is switching users of the Office 365 Admin Center to the Microsoft 365 Admin Center.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 06, 2018
Microsoft this week gave a progress report on its partnership with SAP, particularly their joint efforts to run SAP's enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution, SAP S/4HANA, on Azure infrastructure.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 05, 2018