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Microsoft made a ton of announcements at this week’s SharePoint conference in Las Vegas. If you’re an Office 365 tenant administrator, the health of SharePoint Online and what it and OneDrive for Business can do is important to you. Among all the fluffy stuff about intelligent intranets, there was some good news about improvements in administration, security, and network utilization, all of which will help other Office 365 apps too.

Do you want to ensure your Azure users don’t have the rights to create random, expensive resources without approval? You can do just that with Role-based access control (RBAC). RBAC is a built-in FREE feature we must master in order to improve our security posture.

You can now connect Office 365 sources like SharePoint Online, OneDrive for Business, Teams, and Yammer to Microsoft Search and have Bing reveal results from those sources in its searches. It’s a useful trick, as long as you use Bing as your search engine. And there’s the small matter that Microsoft has left Exchange out of the list of connected sources, which seems to reduce the usefulness of searches a tad.

In the second part of this two-part series, I show you how to synchronize password hashes between AAD and Domain Services, and how to join a Windows Server VM to the new domain.

Jasper Oosterveld, Microsoft MVP & InSpark Modern Workplace Consultant, discusses a new release for the modern SharePoint news experience. The ability to create templates.

Microsoft has released a new version of their Edge browser, here is how to change the search engine from Bing to Google.

his new partnership underscores that Azure is Microsoft’s priority going forward and their new open attitude is all about enabling Microsoft to extend Azure’s reach. Let’s take a closer look at what Microsoft and VMware’s new partnership means for the hybrid cloud.

In today’s Ask the Admin, I’ll look at three different ways you can migrate from Windows 7 to Windows 10.

How to set up Azure Active Directory Domain Services

The PST is now a very old file format. Originally introduced to give users the ability to store email moved from their Exchange mailbox, the need for PSTs disappeared years ago because Office 365 users have massive mailboxes. Despite this, some organizations persist in allowing people to use PSTs.