Microsoft 365: Block User License Requests and Purchases
Microsoft 365 by default allows end users to request new licenses and, currently in 27 cases, to purchase licenses with their own credit cards, sometimes with a trial first. As …
Server Essentials 2022 Not Available as Volume License
In a development that still has me scratching my head, I learned today that the current version of Windows Server Essentials 2022 is not available from the Volume License Service …
Microsoft Kills Key Support Resource Eight Years Early
According to the Microsoft Lifecycle Policy, Server 2016 Essentials should have support through January 12, 2027:
Cat Support
One of my customers sent me this photo of the scene during a remote support session: We were all wondering how long the System Restore was going to take. The …
Microsoft Support Sites Report Access Denied in Chrome
This week, when I tried to open a Microsoft support ticket at https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/assistedsupportproducts using Chrome 71, I got an Access Denied error:
Leave Everything to Us
If you’ve recently upgraded your Windows 10 PC, you may have seen Microsoft telling you during the upgrade to “Leave everything to us”: Kind of reminiscent of the way people …
Microsoft Launches $5000 Azure Credit for Nonprofits
If you assist nonprofits with their I.T. needs, you may have noticed a flurry of announcements made in January about Microsoft’s plans to donate “$1 billion of cloud computing resources …