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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.

If your business needs to store and manage RAW image files generated by professional cameras, high-resolution videos, or other large media files, then local network storage and specialist software can help you improve productivity. But there’s no one-size-fits-all solution, so evaluate your needs and expectations carefully.

Office 365 Information Barriers allow organizations to erect logical firewalls between different user communities to ensure that regulatory and legal requirements are met. Teams and Exchange Online support Information Barrier policies, which replace Address Book Policies. Some work is necessary to get Information Barriers set up. We cover that work in this article and prepare the ground for deploying the policies to Teams.

Microsoft updates the Canary channel Edge Insider preview build with IE mode support.

Slack’s July 22 post reports some advances in their desktop client that seem to aim at reported weaknesses in the Teams desktop client. The best update is better protection against network outages. The other claims of 50% less RAM, 33% faster startup, and 10x better call joining need validation in the real world.

Protecting core infrastructure components like SQL Server is certainly one of the database professional first priorities. However, for those businesses still running SQL Server 2008/R2, that’s become a problem.

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