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Starting next month, Microsoft will be rolling out ‘nag’ screens for Windows 7 that will inform you that the OS will soon reach its end of life servicing.

Microsoft has deployed a new feature of Windows 10 that will automatically rollback failed updates when it detects a failed startup.

Artificial intelligence is of major interest to Microsoft right now, so it really shouldn’t be a surprise that Jeffrey Snover, one of their technical chiefs, is now heading the charge to bring AI to the Office 365 substrate. Quite what this means for the internal operations of Office 365, applications and clients, and customers is to be seen, but some interesting times lie ahead in the evolution of Office 365.

To help business leaders better understand these technologies, Microsoft is launching AI Business School, a new learning program targeted at executives.

This is how you can edit files on a remote Linux server using Microsoft’s VS Code.

Because Punxsutawney Phil is a lying liar who lies, this edition of Short Takes looks Windows 10 stumbling to 800 million active devices, an open source Windows Calculator, Microsoft’s two new datacenters in Africa, and so much more.

Microsoft has flipped the switch and you can now integrate a Yammer conversation directly into Teams.

If you have a small Office 365 tenant, you probably don’t need to use Teams messaging policies to control user access to Teams features. But larger tenants soon discover that policy-based management is a great way to control the functionality available to select sets of Teams users. Here’s how to create and assign a policy to users through the Teams Admin Center or PowerShell.

This is how you can quickly create hundreds or even thousands of Active Directory users with the help of PowerShell.

Back in 2017, Microsoft announced that they would be opening two data centers in Africa by the end of 2018. Even though they missed that deadline, the data centers are now up and running.

The multi-user version of Windows 10 that Microsoft touted at last year’s Ignite conference in September is now available again as an Azure Marketplace image.

Microsoft has released a new app configuration service for Azure that can help you manage all the configuration settings for the services and components in a distributed system.