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Microsoft has added a new feature to Azure Update management giving you the ability to target dynamic groups of VMs. Take a quick tour of Azure Update management and dynamic group targeting.

Slack released some integrations for Office (365) on April 9. I took a look and discovered some interesting things about how the Outlook add-in for Slack works (and doesn’t work sometimes). If you use Slack, you’ll probably be interested in a tighter connection between it and Office, but if you’re invested in the Office 365 ecosystem, Teams is a better choice.

In the first part of this series, I look at the basics of Microsoft’s new Windows Virtual Desktop service.

Azure’s Front Door service can bring availability and performance improvements to applications and services deployed anywhere on the Internet.

The Retpoline patch for Windows 10 was originally slated to arrive in the Windows 10 May 2019 Update but the fix is now in Windows 10 version 1809, although it must be enabled manually.

In today’s Ask the Admin, I discuss whether federated authentication is really the most secure way to set up hybrid authentication between Windows Server Active Directory and Office 365.

This article will provide a quick overview of Microsoft’s free Azure Migrate service. This service can help you assess your on-prem VMware environment to determine what workloads are ready for Azure and what your operational expense may look like by providing scaled cost estimates.

The landscape of technology is changing quickly which is why it’s important to understand how companies are staying relevant in the shifting computing landscape. This past week, I was in NYC with Paul Thurrott and Mary Jo Foley to talk Microsoft and it’s health in the technology sector.

Teams is on a roll at present with the number of organizations using the app accelerating past 500,000. Good planning and forethought help enormously to ensure the success of any deployment and Teams is no different. Whether you’re running a migration from Skype for Business Online or a greenfield deployment, thinking before deploying is always a good thing to do.

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