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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.

Good news for those who like to know what’s going on in email: Office 365 supervision policies now support Teams personal chats and channel conversations in addition to email. And you can now use sensitive data types to find communications worth reading. Seriously, supervision policies are important to a certain section of the market, so it’s good that Teams messages now surface for review.

Announced at Ignite last year, Microsoft’s big bet on virtualized desktops is finally ready for public testing.

Microsoft is continuing to build out its security services with a new offering for MacOS and new features for ATP as well.

With Azure’s Application Insights you can monitor the availability of any web site or web API from multiple locations around the world.

How to use Puppet Bolt Tasks to run remote jobs on Windows Server.

How to deploy a Windows Server Active Directory test environment in Microsoft Azure.

Microsoft’s Teams app has quickly become a cornerstone of the Office 365 platform. Offering a wide variety of customized experiences, the communication hub is a product that is receiving significant investment from senior management and today they are rolling out several new features.