Microsoft shares its vision for Planner in Microsoft Teams

We will make working across Planner and Microsoft Teams a seamless experience, where plans fully integrate across applications. We will add support for selecting your existing Plans from Planner as Tabs in Microsoft Teams. From a Planner Tab in Teams, you will be able to launch the full Planner experience to access capabilities like Charts and other views. Users will the ability to have multiple plans per Office 365 Group within Planner. When we complete that work, you’ll also be access any of the Plans you started in Teams as well. It’s been pretty disjointed; there is no mobile app, …

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Microsoft details the latest OneDrive sync client update

Activity center: The activity center is now available in the latest OneDrive sync client on Mac and PC giving you visibility to the most recent sync activity and status. Simply click on the OneDrive icon in your system tray (PC) or Finder (Mac) to see your file sync Conditional access: You can now restrict OneDrive sync to only domain joined or workplace joined devices. You can even make access contingent on PC health if you like. All of this can be managed through the new OneDrive admin center preview and by configuring Azure Active Directory policies. Syncing SharePoint sites: Making sure you have the information …

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Microsoft introduces two new services to help developers create smart bots

With optimized machine learning logic and the ability to integrate industry-leading language processing, QnA Maker Service distills semi-structured data like those commonly found in website FAQs into distinct, helpful answers. Source: Microsoft introduces two new services to help developers create smart bots This looks so interesting. I’m going to give it a try.

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Microsoft’s Surface Book isn’t the dream video-editing machine I hoped for

Would I consider using the Surface Book as my go-to mobile editing machine? Probably not. It was functional, but not ideal. Source: Microsoft’s Surface Book isn’t the dream video-editing machine I hoped for I have the Surface Book that came out last year that I use for my IT professional job. It’s a really nice machine but like this post I found it not quite so good when trying to edit photos and working in Photoshop. It works but not as fast to work with than my 2012 Retina MacBook Pro. I think it comes down to the dual core processors …

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Surface Studio Drivers and Firmware now available for download

Microsoft has now released Surface Studio drivers and firmware in the Microsoft Download Center. You can use these drivers and firmware to prepare your custom images for enterprise deployment, or to repair problems with custom installations of Windows on your Surface Studio. Source: Surface Studio Drivers and Firmware now available for download I’ve been using a Surface Book (1st gen, i7, 256GB model) for the past month now. It’s been pretty good except for this whooping noise that comes from the right speaker when under load. It’s not noticeable when there is ambient noise but if you are reading in …

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