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Amazon has new Gravitron processors for its services, here’s how they can help save you some money.

Russell explains how to use Puppet Bolt to run commands remotely on Windows Server.

Office 365 serves a wide spectrum of organizations. Many are very small, some belong to government agencies, and some are used by large enterprises. And in the enterprise space, mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures are common events.

Aidan explains what the three types of rules that are in the Azure Firewall, what they do, and how they are different from each other.

A new generation is being brought up not on Windows and Office, but with iPads and Chromebooks; Microsoft needs to find a way to win in the hardware space at the low end of the market.

No fix is available yet for the Exchange vulnerability reported by Dirk-jan Mollema and described in CVE-2018-8581. Apart from deploying a split permissions model, no out-of-the-box mitigation exists today. Microsoft is working actively to fix the problem and in the meantime, the brains of the Exchange community are hard at work to come up with possible solutions.

Amazon Firecracker is a new feature that makes it easier and safer to run micro-services.

We all have heard about backing up our data to the cloud, but outlining all the benefits shows the true reason you should consider this approach.

Microsoft has finally made Windows Server 2019 (WS2019) generally available for IaaS virtual machines on their public cloud, Microsoft Azure.

A newly-discovered vulnerability in Exchange potentially allows attackers to gain control over Active Directory. Since Exchange 2000, Exchange has been a highly-privileged server that’s tightly connected to Active Directory. Add in some NTLM weakness, Exchange Web Services push notifications, and everything comes together for the bad guys.

Because I live for the controversy, this edition of Short Takes looks at Microsoft’s hypocritical attack on fake news, the irony of Microsoft employees stuck in “Reply All” hell, Microsoft’s big year in education, and much, much more.

Russell shows you how to audit access to LAPS passwords in Active Directory and how to establish a process for managing access to local administrator passwords.