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The landscape of technology is changing quickly which is why it’s important to understand how companies are staying relevant in the shifting computing landscape. This past week, I was in NYC with Paul Thurrott and Mary Jo Foley to talk Microsoft and it’s health in the technology sector.

VMware announced a new set of updates for their vRealize Cloud Management platform aimed at providing a unified control plane for local infrastructure and multi-cloud management.

Visual Studio 2019 is now available for the Mac and PC; Microsoft is also including Visual Studio Live share with the development suite too.

Teams is on a roll at present with the number of organizations using the app accelerating past 500,000. Good planning and forethought help enormously to ensure the success of any deployment and Teams is no different. Whether you’re running a migration from Skype for Business Online or a greenfield deployment, thinking before deploying is always a good thing to do.

As we approach Build, Microsoft is ramping up the Azure announcements; here’s everything that happened last month.

This month sees Kubernetes Windows container support come out of beta, Windows Virtual Desktop enters public preview, and the next major feature update for Windows 10 nears the finish line.

It’s called Office 365 but this month was all about Teams, Teams, Teams.

Because I have a hard time saying no, this edition of Short Takes looks at Microsoft’s latest tax problem, Windows 10 version 1809, throwing ice water on April Fools, Microsoft de-notching Minecraft, and much, much more.

Two themes this month. PNP PowerShell is awesome and got more awesome and what is old is new. The PowerShell is pretty self-explanatory but the old is new is fun. We get back connected web parts (circa 2003), we can do templates, and the News capability (which reminds me of 2003 portals) are all covered…

We know that buying hardware, software, and services can be challenging and we are looking for your feedback about the barriers you face when making a buying decision.

Office 365 retention policies help organizations keep information for as long as needed. But retention consumes storage. This isn’t a problem for Exchange Online, but it is for SharePoint Online, because files held in the Preservation Hold Library are charged against the tenant storage quota. This isn’t a reason to not use retention policies, but you should be careful.

Here’s how to quickly and easily install the Remote Server Administration Tools in Windows 10.