Brad Sams

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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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....

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...

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....

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...

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...

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...