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A lot is changing in the world of Hybrid Cloud and IBM is making a big play to win the segment by purchasing Red Hat.

Russell shows you how to install Puppet Enterprise server version 7 on a Red Hat Linux VM running on Hyper-V.

In today’s Ask the Admin, I’ll look at all the different ways Windows 10 users and devices can authenticate with Azure AD, Active Directory, Microsoft, and the local security manager.

Microsoft has made privileged access management (PAM) generally available for Office 365, but in reality it’s only Exchange Online that supports the new feature. This isn’t surprising because Exchange has a well-developed role-based access control system that the PAM developers can leverage, but it does pose a question about how they’ll extend PAM to other Office 365 workloads.

Microsoft has updated the Teams PowerShell module to version 0.9.5. The best thing about the refresh is that the Get-Team cmdlet works. Well, it can now retrieve a full list of Teams in an Office 365 tenant. It would be good if Get-Team returned more data and supported server-side filtering, but it’s a start.

In today’s Ask the Admin, I’ll look at what’s new in Windows 10 version 1809 for business users.

Microsoft has launched a new kind of Azure virtual machine that uses new Intel hardware features to offer a secure computing platform for data security-sensitive operations.

Teams borrows from many other Office 365 applications to build its functionality.The latest component taken is Exchange Online address book policies, used to segment the directory and stop users getting in touch with other people in the organization outside the scope of a policy. But it’s an imperfect and partial block, and if you really want to stop people talking, you’ll have to do a lot more work.

October was a busy time for Azure announcements, here’s what you need to know about the announcements last month.

Microsoft keeps the updates flowing and last month, Office 365 received a number of updates that continue to enhance the platform.