My take on Azure Virtual Desktop in 2025.

🚀 AVD has evolved! AVD now rivals the experience of it's competitors, without the CapEx headaches. The real game-changer? Nerdio.

⚖️ Simple auto-scaling
💾 Simplified image management
💻 Windows 365 integration

Things I loved about the #Microsoft AI Tour:
✅ Learning about some of the new exciting features coming to AI services
✅ Hearing about some of the new capabilities in Copilot for Microsoft 365.

There’s going to be more than enough to keep you busy!

Things I didn’t like:
❎ Avanti West Coast trains

I'm looking forward to "LinkedIn VideoTok Enterprise E5" with the option for a Gold add-on subscription

Late 70’s and 80’s films are better than any film that will be made today. Notably the Superman series, and back to the future.

There’s no wonder in modern films, everything’s just “computers”.

This is a feature in new Outlook on Windows. Ability to manage PSTs!

I know this is a feature a lot have been looking for, and been a deal breaker for moving!

Early new year present from Microsoft

www.microsoft.com/microsoft-36...

Since we don't have polls:

Repost if you want _less_ generative AI in your tech in 2025.

Microsoft 365 Enterprise license map updated with December changes.
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#microsoft365

I hope everyone can remember their Office app URLs this morning. 😱
#Microsoft365 #Office365

New Microsoft 365 Licensing Mind map.

I've needed an updated "what's included with what license visualisation", and I know there are already excellent resources out there.

It's a very early incarnation at the moment, but will be developed further.

Feedback welcome!
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Pleasantly surprised by the discover feed. I never used the for you feed on the other platform, because it was well, not for me! 😕 give it a try!

Surprised nothing has been mentioned at #MicrosoftIgnite about Microsoft Recall 😔

There's a lot of news coming out of #MicrosoftIgnite.

If you're struggling with everything coming out, start with the 𝗕𝗼𝗼𝗸 𝗼𝗳 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀.

A nice digest, and some nuggets in there that aren't being shouted about, but you will get value from

I thought I'd give an in-place upgrade a go with Windows Server 2025.
Don't do it.
Just because you can, doesn't mean you should!
2 hours to fix Domain Controllers. 😜 Luckily it was my lab!

After a few restarts of Teams I finally got the new “chat and channel experience”.

I thought it was going to be one of those horrible changes. I was very pleasantly surprised.

First impressions, love it!

Change teams, this will need comms!
#Teams

Do you use or rely on the Microsoft Tech Community RSS feed? Noticed it's broken? It's been intentionally broken. 😥 Hopefully it get fixed soon!

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