SharePoint Online has a threshold limit of 5000 for a list or document view. This cannot be changed (unlike on-premise SharePoint). For an enterprise-based SaaS solution, this is too small. Vote to increase the Threshold via https://sharepoint.uservoice.com/forums/330318-sharepoint-administration/suggestions/35017195-increase-the-threshold-to-list-views

Windows 10 configuration has been a mess since 2015 and is still present today. Microsoft needs to get a handle on Control Panel vs Settings, consolidating and having extensible. It should have been a priority at least 2 years ago. It is time to reward developers for making Windows usable, not just adding new glam.

Since Microsoft hasn't been updating the NuGet packages for BingMapsRESTToolkit (they have updated the code base, but it doesn't compile, at least with Visual Studio 2019, without a minor change), posted a .NET Standard version that has the updated models. Now able to call their Postal Code service to get the associated Time Zone.

See https://www.nuget.org/packages?q=BingMapsRESTToolkit to check out the packages.

See https://github.com/RecursiveGeek/BingMapsRESTToolkit/blob/master/README.md to get more details.

In Outlook for iOS and Android, without support for HTML email signature, that is a deal breaker. They have had years to implement this feature, making it consistent with native apps and consistent with desktop apps. It has been requested many times and specifically rejected (e.g., https://outlook.uservoice.com/forums/293349-outlook-for-ios/suggestions/8632618-html-signatures). When will they listen to the customers?

The new Microsoft Edge Browser Insider Preview (https://www.microsoftedgeinsider.com), overall, is working great. With its ability to use Google Chrome Extensions (and some Edge Extensions) and synchronize favorites, it works well on a daily basis (a couple of times a month Google Chrome is still needed for some sites).

There has been talk recently about Microsoft “modern OS”, a yet unconfirmed competitor to Chrome OS. It could support 5G, linger battery life, background OS updates that don’t interrupt the workflow, cloud connected, support for touch and pen, gesture support (on screen, facial, ...). Rather than calling this Windows Lite, how about just calling it Microsoft OS? 😏

After attending the Visual Studio 2019 launch last week at the Microsoft Office (even got into the video during the event), a number of us were excited to check it out. I have installed it on 4 development machines, successfully side loaded with Visual Studio 2017. So far, we haven't run into any issues with our current projects. The biggest win out of the box is how fast it launches. We are testing it to see if we no longer need ReSharper (R#), a longstanding valued, but additional cost, tool.

Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment in Azure DevOps Pipelines, while it takes some effort to set up, is great and significantly helps with quick deployments of web applications on-premise and in Azure.

Oh Microsoft... What is with the current Office 365 icons? They are ugly and hard to see on a high DPI screen.

Interested in testing the latest Microsoft Edge Browser based on the Chromium engine that will run on Windows 7, 8, 8.1, and 10? An insider version is now available via https://www.microsoftedgeinsider.com

Ransom viruses aren't new, but now they are becoming a lot more pervasive. Beware! And this isn't just against businesses.

New Computer Virus Attacks Minnesota Businesses
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