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Running VMs in the cloud has become a big part of the modernization of IT infrastructure for most businesses. However, even though those VMs that are in the cloud, the backup mechanisms that they use to provide disaster recovery (DR) capabilities are essentially the same as they would use for on-premise VMs. They often use legacy technologies that require a lot of resources and are difficult to scale.

After thirty years of Windows development, how Windows handles error reporting is stuck in 2006 which is unacceptable when the company wants you to install major updates every six months.

Microsoft has moved the venerable EHLO blog maintained by the Exchange product group to the Microsoft Technical Community (MTC) platform. The first post is about the Exchange 2019 sizing calculator. Hopefully the changeover won’t affect the great content published in EHLO over the years. What’s of more concern is the lack of participation in the MTC by Microsoft product engineers and MVPs.

This month’s quality update for Windows 10 is so good that it installs itself twice, Microsoft releases patches for Intel Microarchitectural Data Sampling (MDS) attacks, and there’s a fix for a zero-day flaw in Windows Error Reporting.

But each year, the tune has changed a little bit more each time and it’s becoming more clear that Veeam is no longer a little company playing in the backup space but has become its own ecosystem that is the center of availability for nearly every type of data both locally and in the cloud.

Microsoft made a ton of announcements at this week’s SharePoint conference in Las Vegas. If you’re an Office 365 tenant administrator, the health of SharePoint Online and what it and OneDrive for Business can do is important to you. Among all the fluffy stuff about intelligent intranets, there was some good news about improvements in administration, security, and network utilization, all of which will help other Office 365 apps too.

Do you want to ensure your Azure users don’t have the rights to create random, expensive resources without approval? You can do just that with Role-based access control (RBAC). RBAC is a built-in FREE feature we must master in order to improve our security posture.

At its VeeamON 2019 conference in Miami today, Veeam Software announced that it has exceeded $1 billion in annual bookings and is adding over 4,000 new customers every month.

Microsoft has announced a couple of new features that will add more functionality to SharePoint, Yammer, and Streams

You can now connect Office 365 sources like SharePoint Online, OneDrive for Business, Teams, and Yammer to Microsoft Search and have Bing reveal results from those sources in its searches. It’s a useful trick, as long as you use Bing as your search engine. And there’s the small matter that Microsoft has left Exchange out of the list of connected sources, which seems to reduce the usefulness of searches a tad.

Microsoft Enterprise Search is coming to all Office apps, Bing, SharePoint, OneDrive, and Windows 10.

In the second part of this two-part series, I show you how to synchronize password hashes between AAD and Domain Services, and how to join a Windows Server VM to the new domain.