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Microsoft’s second-generation Hub is now available and it features a completely redesigned exterior that allows the device to be upgraded with a modular computing unit and can also run on batteries.

Microsoft has added a new feature to Azure Update management giving you the ability to target dynamic groups of VMs. Take a quick tour of Azure Update management and dynamic group targeting.

Microsoft’s April updates for Windows cause performance and authentication issues for some users.

Slack released some integrations for Office (365) on April 9. I took a look and discovered some interesting things about how the Outlook add-in for Slack works (and doesn’t work sometimes). If you use Slack, you’ll probably be interested in a tighter connection between it and Office, but if you’re invested in the Office 365 ecosystem, Teams is a better choice.

In the first part of this series, I look at the basics of Microsoft’s new Windows Virtual Desktop service.

This month Windows is patched for two zero-day flaws, Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 users report that devices with Sophos Antivirus can’t log in after installing KB4493472 and authentication failures to services configured with unconstrained delegation.

Google announces a new Managed Service for Microsoft Active Directory that should give customers more options about which cloud service fits their needs.

Azure’s Front Door service can bring availability and performance improvements to applications and services deployed anywhere on the Internet.

Microsoft Teams supports Office 365 Data Loss Prevention (DLP) policies, which means that you can check for the sharing of sensitive data like credit card or passport numbers in personal chats or channel conversations. Quite why someone would want to share their credit card number with someone else in a chat is beyond me, but there’s no accounting for human taste.

The Retpoline patch for Windows 10 was originally slated to arrive in the Windows 10 May 2019 Update but the fix is now in Windows 10 version 1809, although it must be enabled manually.

Google’s new Anthos service aims to make multi-cloud operations, significantly easier with support for all the major players in the segment.

Slack is rolling out new features for Office 365 that the company hopes will bridge the gap between the two services.