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Microsoft dug themselves out of a pit of pain last Friday when they reversed the decision to nix some popular partner benefit just before the Inspire conference in Las Vegas. However, the world is changing and the cloud is where the action is. Microsoft pays to deliver services from the cloud and that cost must be either absorbed internally or transmitted to partners. That simple fact makes it sure that difficult conversations await in the future.

In February, I published a script to report the activity in Office 365 Groups and Teams. It is natural that some of those groups will be obsolete, so here’s another script to email the owners of those groups. I know the script works because I tested it against 200 groups, but it’s rough and ready and deserves some TLC from people who really know PowerShell.

The built-in diagnostics for Azure App Services will not only help you track down problems and misconfigurations in your app, but also make sure you are following the best practices.

We hear ‘edge’ a lot, from browsers to data centers but here is what you need to know about edge computing.

Last month, Paul, Mary Jo, and I were in Washington, D.C. where we recorded a second iteration Health of Tech at ShiftHappens. This series focuses on looking at technology and Microsoft as a whole to provide a ‘health’ of Microsoft.

Hyper-V is an optional feature in Windows 10 that can be used to run virtual machines (VMs) and perform other virtualization duties, such as supporting Credential Guard and Windows Sandbox. Like all Windows 10 features, you can add or remove Hyper-V using Turn Windows features on or off in the Programs and Features applet of the legacy Control Panel, PowerShell or DISM.

In this Ask the Admin, I look at what you need to know before connecting a high resolution 4K display to a notebook.

Are you curious about what an Azure App Service plan is, exactly? In this article we’ll dive into the essence and capabilities of an App Service plan.

Office 365 Message Encryption (OME) now offers an advanced set of features to Office 365 E5 tenants. You can have messages with specific branding delivered to different domains. Advanced OME also includes message revocation. Branding is a feature that will appeal to a limited set of tenants, but it would be nice if revocation was available to a wider set of Office 365 tenants.

Each month Microsoft adds new features and updates existing products for Azure, here’s the updates you need to know about for June.