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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.

How to run code on a remote Windows Device from Visual Studio Code using PowerShell Remoting.

Microsoft has announced a Surface Hub event for April where the company is expected to finally do a deep dive on the hardware that is inside the collaboration device.

Microsoft’s upcoming Edge browser that is based on Chromium has leaked and it contains a few knew features for the enterprise.

Azure Security Center has included a new feature in preview called Adaptive Network Hardening which uses machine learning to analyze both ingress and egress traffic from your Azure virtual machines. Once it’s gathered enough data, I will make security recommendations to better harden your resources.

Microsoft has announced that version 1904 of Office ProPlus (click to run) for Windows includes new privacy controls to allow organizations limit the data sent back by the Office apps. There’s no word about when they will deliver similar controls for Office for Mac, Office mobile, and the Office 365 server apps. Privacy is a real challenge in a world where cloud apps gather so much telemetry to measure performance, reliability, and other aspects, but it’s good that organizations will now be able to control how much they share with Microsoft.

Disaster recovery (DR) methods for protecting today’s IT infrastructure and data are going through a period of substantial change. Today businesses need to do more than protect against service failures and traditional downtime.

How to run remote commands on Windows Server using Puppet Bolt installed in Ubuntu with the help of the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL).

How to set up auditing to track changes to permissions on Windows File Servers.

Because Windows 7 ain’t going to put itself out to pasture, this edition of Short Takes looks at Microsoft’s new Windows 7 end of support warning Google’s new browser ballot idea, insecure Nokia handsets, Apple’s coming news service, and Facebook’s inability to do anything right.

Microsoft is making changes Windows Update for Business and the Windows 10 release schedule.