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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.

A question none of us like to think about too much is what we would do if a natural or man-made disaster took out Office 365 and disrupted service for an extended period. The good news is that the way Microsoft has built out Office 365 into datacenter regions helps to limit the effect of any outage, but the fact still remains that something bad could happen. What would you do then?

This month sees Microsoft patch two zero-days in Windows 7 and critical bugs in Windows Deployment Services and DHCP.

Microsoft’s Azure platform offers a robust number of services and while it may sound expensive, it’s easy to stay on a budget or even get some services for free.

Because it’s the ides of March, this edition of Short Takes looks at Huawei’s Plan B, a Windows 7 courtesy reminder, Windows 10 automatic driver rollback, Microsoft v. Foxconn, and much, much more.

Microsoft’s rolling out a new service that is designed to make it easier to build content with integrated matchmaking, communication, and many other features for game developers.

Hybrid cloud availability can be difficult because most businesses are running a mixture of many different technologies that all need to be available in order to support their business-critical applications. Availability in the hybrid cloud needs to begin at the design phase of your application infrastructure.

If your software hasn’t made the switch to using Coordinated Universal Time, then now might be the right time.

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.