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SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business are making increasing use of Azure B2B Collaboration for sharing, which means that Office 365 tenants will have more guest user accounts. Using Azure B2B Collaboration is a reasonable approach because it’s secure and works well, but it does mean that tenant admins have some extra work to do to keep an eye on those guest accounts.

VMware CTO Ray O’Farrell led off the VMworld 2018 day 2 keynote with a series of demos illustrating how a fictional Tanzu Tees company could answer today’s development and IT challenges using VMware’s technology.

Ultra Disk is a new managed disk for workloads demanding the highest performance and lowest latency.

VMworld is happening this week and if you need a brief of everything announced on day one, we have you covered.

The original Office 365 Groups expiration policy was pretty good. It helps tenants keep control of potential group sprawl by removing old groups based on age. Now the policy takes user activity into account. While still not perfect, the new implementation makes the group expiration policy even easier to use because owners don’t have to do anything to renew their groups if the groups remain in active use. You might debate the set of activities chosen by Microsoft to represent a good signal of group activity, but not the way the policy now works.

Google has announced several new features that are coming to Chrome OS that will make it easier to use the operating system in corporate environments.

In something of a turnaround, Windows Defender is now matching and outperforming many free and commercial antivirus solutions.

Because AI that requires human intervention is only artificial, not intelligence, this edition of Short Takes looks at Microsoft’s new Edge milestone and why so few people seem interested, Xbox’s voyeurism problem, Microsoft’s further embrace of open-source, and so much more.

Version 0.3 of Windows Terminal lets you connect directly to Azure Cloud Shell, here’s how you can do that.

Microsoft’s new Edge browser is ready for beta testing but don’t expect the final release to be available anytime soon.

How to use Key Vault References in Azure App Services for the most flexible and secure approach to reading sensitive configuration settings.

Microsoft has released a new build of Windows 10 and in this new 19h2 release, there are a couple of new enterprise features coming to the OS.