ModernEUC Home
Welcome to Modern EUC Home
The goal with this section, Modern End User Computing, is to provide readers some guidance through the journey to Workspace Transformation, Modern Device Management and Modern Productivity Tools ( GenAI).
Topics covered in this section include:
Recent Modern EUC Related Posts:
-
Microsoft Copilot Growing Up
By Jorge Pereira • 2026-04-29My own relationship with Microsoft Copilot started with high hopes, followed by the “trough of disillusionment.” Like many, I grudgingly launched it yesterday only because I needed to handle confidential data within our enterprise security layer. I went through my standard procedure to manually override the default—and then I saw it: Claude Opus in the… -
Microsoft Enables Copilot App Removal
By Jorge Pereira • 2026-04-28For the past year, Microsoft Copilot has felt like the uninvited guest that wouldn’t leave. Forced onto taskbars and integrated into nearly every corner of Windows 11, the AI assistant was met with mixed reviews—and significant pushback from enterprise IT departments concerned about data privacy and “AI bloat.” Following the April 2026 Patch Tuesday update,… -
NVIDIA DGX Systems and Microsoft Intune
By Jorge Pereira • 2026-04-27As enterprises accelerate their investments in AI, NVIDIA DGX systems have become the backbone of many high‑performance computing and machine learning environments. These platforms deliver enormous GPU density and performance, enabling everything from model training to large‑scale inference. At the same time, IT organizations are standardizing on Microsoft Intune to manage and secure endpoints through… -
Standardizing on New Outlook for Windows
By Jorge Pereira • 2026-04-22Standardizing on New Outlook for Windows (and Removing Outlook Classic) As organizations modernize their Windows 11 environments, Outlook often becomes a source of confusion. Much of that confusion comes from assuming Outlook is part of Windows itself. In reality, Outlook behavior on Windows 11 depends heavily on what is installed after the operating system—particularly Microsoft… -
Microsoft 365 Copilot Notebooks: Context-Aware AI Collaboration
By Jorge Pereira • 2026-03-25Imagine having an intelligent assistant that doesn’t just answer questions, but understands the full context of your projects, your OneNote files. synthesizes information across sources, and helps you brainstorm, draft, and visualize ideas. Microsoft 365 Copilot Notebooks is designed to do exactly that. This new capability, integrated into the Microsoft 365 ecosystem, represents a major… -
Microsoft Copilot Evolution – March 2026 UPDATE
By Jorge Pereira • 2026-03-22Summary: March 2026 Microsoft’s Copilot Reorg: What It Means for Microsoft 365 Copilot and Power Platform On March 17, 2026, Microsoft announced a significant reorganization of its Copilot efforts, aimed at turning Copilot from a collection of related features into a coherent, end‑to‑end AI system across consumer and enterprise products. For technical audiences working with… -
The 2026 Gmail Overhaul: Why Your Inbox Will Never Be the Same
By Jorge Pereira • 2026-02-16I wrote this article a few days ago: The End of an Era for Gmail POP3 or Gmailify in which I outlined one of many different changes Gmail is undergoing in 2026. For twenty years, your Gmail address was essentially “permanent ink.” If you chose skater_kid2004@gmail.com as a teenager, you were largely stuck with it—unless… -
The End of an Era for Gmail POP3 or Gmailify Imports
By Jorge Pereira • 2026-02-11For years, many of us have used Gmail as a “central hub” for all our email addresses. Whether it was a personal, side-project or work address the ability to “Check mail from other accounts” via POP3 or “Gmailify” made life easy. See my other blog posts about gmail However, Google recently announced a major shift… -
Microsoft 365 Apps Naming Decoding (Jan 2026)
By Jorge Pereira • 2026-01-23Decoding Microsoft 365 Licensing Names: A Practical Guide for IT Directors (2026) Microsoft’s productivity stack is simpler to manage than ever—but its naming conventions remain anything but. Between Office 365, Microsoft 365 Apps, Microsoft 365 Copilot app, Business and Enterprise plans, even veteran IT leaders can get caught in terminology tangles. This post gives you… -
Managing Linux Devices with Microsoft Intune
By Jorge Pereira • 2026-01-19For years, the phrase device management was nearly synonymous with Windows. As macOS and mobile platforms matured, they were brought into the enterprise management stack, but Linux remained a persistent outlier—the “Wild West” of the corporate network. That reality has changed. With the rise of DevOps, data science, security engineering, and cloud‑native development, Linux is… -
Microsoft 365 Pricing Changes in 2026: What They Mean for Intune
By Jorge Pereira • 2026-01-16Microsoft is introducing broad changes to Microsoft 365 in 2026 that go beyond Intune, combining a noticeable price increase with a push toward more tightly integrated security, collaboration, and AI capabilities across the suite. Core plans like Microsoft 365 E3 and E5 are gaining enhanced features in areas such as threat protection, data security, and… -
Master Your Workspace: Windows 11 Virtual Desktops
By Jorge Pereira • 2026-01-05Multiple Desktops feature in Windows 11 I is super helpful and it is becoming one of those essential pieces in my workflows. -
Configuration Manager: A History of Names
By Jorge Pereira • 2025-12-10For more on Configuration Manager Click Here For nearly three decades, Microsoft Configuration Manager has been a cornerstone of enterprise device management. From its origins as Systems Management Server (SMS) to its evolution into System Center Configuration Manager and today’s Microsoft Configuration Manager, the product has played a critical role in how organizations deploy operating… -
Microsoft Configuration Manager Moves to an Annual Release Cadence
By Jorge Pereira • 2025-12-05For more on Configuration Manager Click Here On November 5, 2025, Microsoft has officially announced a significant change to the release model for Microsoft Configuration Manager (ConfigMgr). Beginning in 2026, the product will transition from its long-standing semi-annual release cadence to a single annual major release. This change brings greater predictability for IT teams and…
…