petri 2021-10-21 20:00 Surface Duo 2: Better Hardware, Same Productivity The Surface brand is full of products that tried something different. The classic Pro put a different spin on a tablet, the Studio with a... petri.com 2021-08-19 23:17 Microsoft announces Price Increase for Microsoft and Office 365 Microsoft’s Office 365 suite is the crown jewel of Software-as-a-Service. The... petri.com 2021-07-06 06:46 Microsoft Gives Up on Running SQL Server in a Windows Container Back in 2017, Microsoft had an ambitious plan to run SQL Server in a Windows... petri.com 2021-06-29 00:00 Microsoft Unveils Office Refresh to Match Windows 11 First look at Office app updates that match Windows 11 theme. Late last... petri.com 2021-06-09 21:59 Microsoft is Finally Including Visio in Microsoft 365 But There’s a Catch Microsoft Visio running in Teams – Image Credit: Microsoft For years,...
petri.com 2021-06-07 23:26 Microsoft Rebrands Windows Virtual Desktops, Adds New Features As Microsoft rounds out its fiscal year, which officially ends on June 30th, the company is making a few last-minute changes before the new year begins in July. Specifically, Microsoft is changing the name of...
petri.com 2021-05-12 22:54 Blockchain Bust: Microsoft Joins IBM with Blockchain Shutdown A few years ago, Blockchain was going to change the world with its distributed database and ledger technology. At the time, cryptocurrencies were taking off and every cloud giant found themselves chasing the technology...
petri.com 2021-05-03 22:14 Triaging OneDrive Sync Issues is About to Get a lot Easier Microsoft’s OneDrive document sync and storage service is the backbone for many users’ and keeping data synced across devices is the primary feature of this tool. To put it simply, put your content in OneDrive and...
petri.com 2021-04-30 02:45 Microsoft adds Kinvolk to its Portfolio of Container Tools This week, Microsoft reported earnings for the first quarter of the year, and to say that they had a healthy quarter would be underselling the company’s performance. But that growth was the result of years of hard...
petri.com 2021-04-26 19:39 Never Mind, Microsoft Won’t Retire Top Senders and Recipient Report Earlier this year, Microsoft announced that they had planned to retire the top senders and recipient report from Microsoft Defender for Office 365. While I do not know the exact thought process Microsoft went through...
petri.com 2021-04-20 22:00 Outlook’s New Scheduling Feature Targets Meeting Burnout When you look at your calendar before having a cup of coffee and all you see are meetings back-to-back for the day, you already know it’s going to be a marathon to make it to 5 P.M. Not only is this physically and...
petri.com 2021-04-02 04:49 Microsoft 365 Falls Over Because of DNS If you can’t get Teams to send messages or properly access your Microsoft 365 content, you are not alone. It appears that there is another significant disruption to Microsoft’s cloud service as both Office 365...
petri.com 2021-03-17 00:06 Microsoft Azure AD Outage Highlights Upcoming SLA Updates If you had trouble yesterday accessing many of Microsoft’s services, you are not alone. For several hours, late into the afternoon on the East coast, Teams, Azure AD, and many other services were inaccessible. While...
petri.com 2021-03-16 19:13 Microsoft Releases Box to Microsoft 365 Migration Tool One of the more challenging tasks in the world of IT is migrating from one service to another. Because of the overhead involved, many companies will opt to stick with an existing solution, even if it’s not perfect,...
petri.com 2021-02-25 23:28 Microsoft to Open Data Center Region in Indonesia Microsoft has announced today that the company plans to open a new datacenter region in Indonesia as part of the Berdayakan Ekonomi Digital Indonesia initiative. This will be the single largest investment in the country...
petri.com 2021-02-24 21:01 Microsoft has new Clouds for Financial Services, Manufacturing, and Nonprofit When you hear the word cloud, you likely think of a data center off in some magical place that (hopefully) has five 9s or more levels of reliability. But the reality is that the ‘cloud’ is a grouping of hardware and...
petri.com 2021-02-22 23:15 Microsoft’s Bringing Text Predictions and Modern Comments to Word Subscribe to Petri NewslettersOffice 365 Insider Our Petri Office 365 Insider is dedicated to sharing detailed knowledge from top Office 365 experts. Delivered once a month to your inbox. All Newsletters...
petri.com 2021-02-22 20:08 Microsoft is Merging OneDrive and SharePoint Admin Centers In the history of Office 365, the words “Microsoft doesn’t have enough admin centers” has probably never been muttered. The company loves dedicated portals and if there is the possibility for a new admin center,...
petri.com 2021-02-15 20:29 Microsoft to Crackdown on High Volume Microsoft 365 Email Offenders If your organization has mailboxes that are overflowing with data and you have been ignoring the warnings that they have surpassed the receiving limits for the account, you will need to start paying more attention....
petri.com 2021-02-11 21:27 Microsoft Adds ‘Meet Now’ to Teams but It Needs to Go One Step Further One of the benefits of Teams is that the platform provides a robust solution to host conference calls and to collaborate. But during the past year, the application has often been a second-class citizen for one, but very...
petri.com 2021-02-10 20:28 Want to Run a Webinar in Teams? You will Need Teams Pro When it comes to using Microsoft software, there are two universal truths: it will take time to figure out how to actually use the software and it will take even more time to understand how to license it effectively....
petri.com 2021-02-02 01:35 Everything You Need to Know About Office 365 – January 2021 It feels like the new year just rolled over, but we are now 1/12th of the way through 2021. As we have been doing for several years, this is a wrap-up of the important updates coming (or already arrived) to...
petri.com 2021-01-28 22:35 New Override Alerts for Office 365 Create an Additional Safety Net When getting started with your new Office 365 tenant, Microsoft has done a respectable job of making the first run experience not too overwhelming. But as your tenant grows, more people are added to roles that can...
petri.com 2021-01-28 03:30 Surface Duo Update Delivers App Improvements for Microsoft 365 When Microsoft announced its earnings yesterday, the company reported that Surface crossed the $2b threshold for the first time. This is a major milestone for the brand and one item that likely played a part, albeit a...
petri.com 2021-01-21 20:22 Microsoft Renames 10 Azure Active Directory Roles One of the challenges of running a sprawling enterprise ecosystem is keeping everything consistent. With on-premises, hybrid, cloud, and admin portals all over the place, making sure that everyone describes each feature...