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Google has announced a new feature for its cloud platform that makes it significantly easier to migrate VMs from Azure to Google Compute Engine.

Part of Microsoft’s modern management initiative for Windows 10, Windows Autopilot is a suite of technologies designed to simplify the setup process for new and existing devices.

Microsoft has started to flag its intention to deprecate the Search-Mailbox cmdlet. It’s probably the right time to remove this cmdlet from Exchange Online because Office 365 compliance searches can serve the same purpose. At least, compliance searches can do most of what Search-Mailbox does faster. Some functionality gaps need to be filled before we can bid adieu to Search-Mailbox, but its time is coming.

This month, it’s all about Teams as Microsoft pushes its users away from Skype and tells its salesforce to take a look at PBX.

Microsoft’s output typically slows down during the summer but July had a few SharePoint updates that are worth pointing out.

Microsoft changes Windows 10 servicing again, Windows Server will get support for FIDO2 security keys in hybrid configurations, Microsoft fixes blocking issues for the Windows 10 May 2019 Update, and much more.

It may be the middle of Summer but there is a lot going on with Azure, this is what you need to know about Azure for the month of July.

Microsoft launches public preview of FIDO2-based password-less sign-in for Azure Active Directory accounts.

Microsoft has announced that they will retire Skype Online for Business in two years with the company pushing everyone to Teams.

In part 1 of this series, we discussed how to setup Office 365 Information Barriers. We now get to the practical application of those barriers to stop different user groups communicating with Teams. Chats and VOIP calls are blocked, users are removed from team membership, and generally everything works as you’d expect.

The ability to easily restore critical data and applications always comes down to the level of priority organizations give to their backup and recovery architectures. The low-hanging fruit from a datacenter perspective is protecting virtual machines.

Microsoft has acquired BlueTalon, a company that specializes in data governance.