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In today’s Ask the Admin, Russell Smith explains how Shared Access Signatures (SAS) can be used to grant access to objects in storage without revealing the storage account key.

The world of Office 365 is ever-changing. This week my attention was distracted by the inability of the Admin Center to report unlicensed accounts, a Watson dump in an ActiveSync cmdlet, some interesting data about the number of Office 365 users affected by outages as revealed through an API, and more odd entries in the Audit Log. Thankfully Ignite is next week and nothing will happen.

Aidan Finn shows you how to delegate administrative access of an Azure subscription to users in an external Azure Active Directory (AD) Domain.

In today’s Ask the Admin, Russell shows you how to apply locks to Azure resources, to prevent accidental deletion or to make them read-only.

[Sponsored] With the increasing sophistication of hackers, and the rising black market price of sensitive data IT has a huge target on its back which means a SIEM solutions are critical.

Aidan shows you how you can fail over an Internet web service from a “local” data centre to Azure, which could optionally be included in a design for Azure Site Recovery (ASR).

On this episode, I cover all of the Microsoft news this week including Surface AIO dreams, Band debacles, a new build of Windows 10 with a few hints tucked away and a lot more in the world of Microsoft

OneNote is a powerful tool that Microsoft offers for free, in this post, Joe shows you how to get the most out of this note taking application.

Inactive mailboxes are only available inside Exchange Online and don’t exist outside Office 365. Litigation or in-place holds keep inactive but soft-deleted mailboxes in a state in which their data is easily accessible for compliance and recordkeeping purposes.

Russell Smith shows you how to use the localGPO command line tool in Security Compliance Manager (SCM) to apply security templates to computers that are not part of an Active Directory domain.