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As we head into the new year, here are the hybrid cloud trends that we expect to see in 2019.

Microsoft is bringing new features to Teams that will make it easier for firstline workers to communicate with other employees.

SUVP provides patches up to three weeks before their official release and encompasses all Microsoft products that are supported for security fixes.

Microsoft plans to create an automatic policy to encrypt outbound email containing sensitive data for all Office 365 tenants. It sounds like a good idea until you begin looking at the operational consequences of such an action. For instance, how to insert a new transport rule into a complex set of existing rules. All in all, this is not a good plan.

Dual Scan enabled clients scan WSUS and WU, but only download Windows patches from Microsoft’s update servers (Windows Update).

Russell explains how to troubleshoot problems with the Delivery Optimization service in Windows 10.

Aidan explains how to deploy and configure Azure Traffic Manager to redirect clients from a production Azure App Services plan to a failover plan.

Microsoft and Kroger have teamed up to take on Amazon’s expansion into retail with Retail-as-a-Service.

Microsoft is removing one of the annoying aspects of installing Windows 10; Cortana screaming at you.

Because I can already feel the mornings getting lighter, the first 2019 edition of Short Takes looks at Microsoft’s 2018, Microsoft’s 2019, Apple’s comeuppance moment, Spectre and Meltdown, and much more.

Aidan explains why and how you can host an external (Internet) DNS domain in Azure using Azure DNS.

In this post, Aidan explains the different ways that you can use Azure Backup to restore an Azure virtual machine.