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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.

There is an active outage impacting customers in Europe from accessing their Office 365 mailboxes.

The signs are that Office 365 will store more encrypted content as time goes by. But ISV products might not be able to process that content because they cannot decrypt it. All of which creates the prospect that you might archive or move data somewhere only to discover later that it is inaccessible. And that’s a bad thing.

Learn about the new Az PowerShell module for managing and deploying resources in Microsoft Azure.

The first Patch Tuesday of 2019 sees a critical remote code execution vulnerability fixed in the Windows DHCP client.

Microsoft is announcing a new peripheral for the Surface Go, new laptops aimed at educators, and new features for Teams.

Most Office 365 users might be unaware of SharePoint’s Document ID service, which generates unique document identifiers for documents in a site. That’s OK, because records management is not the kind of subject that turns everyone on. But business situations do occur when document IDs might be useful, which is why I went looking at how this SharePoint feature works.

Russell shows you how to manage Azure virtual machines (VMs) using the Windows Admin Center (WAC).

Because this time it’s personal, this edition of Short Takes looks at Cortana’s slow-motion suicide, Microsoft trying to fix the housing crisis it created, the October update is finally ready in January, the Windows 7 farewell tour, and much, much more.

LAPS-managed local administrator accounts can be used for remote administration providing that policy doesn’t block their use.

Microsoft has missed a self-imposed deadline to open data centers in Africa but the company is still committed to the location.