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This week, Microsoft announced a new game streaming platform called xCloud but it’s what they are not saying that is actually interesting.

Amazon recently announced a new AWS Storage Gateway hardware appliance that can be used to connect an organization’s existing on-premise hardware configurations to various AWS services.

Aidan details another surprise service announcement from Microsoft Ignite, Azure Front Door, answering what this thing is, and dealing with the fear of “version 1.0”.

Microsoft has paused its rollout of Windows 10 1809 after users were reporting that it was deleting content from My Documents.

Microsoft recently announced the opening dates of the two new Azure regions in Germany, and the freezing of the Azure Germany sovereign regions.

You can connect LinkedIn to Office 365 so that Office 365 users are able to look up LinkedIn contacts from applications like OWA and SharePoint Online. Some privacy concerns have been expressed about the connection, but there’s really nothing to worry about because users are in control of what they see and what they share with others.

Microsoft updated several of its core products this week and announced a new peripheral; while they didn’t hit a home run, this is a reasonable update to the lineup.

Aidan details Azure Firewall, a cloud-scale firewall service that was made generally available at the recent Microsoft Ignite conference.

At the Ignite conference last week, GM Murali Sitaram laid out a new vision for Yammer and explained how the product will be better integrated with Office 365 and Azure. At first blush, the vision addresses the obvious deficiencies that have afflicted Yammer for years and sets out a path for Yammer to become the social layer for Microsoft 365. Time will tell.

Intune plays an important part in Microsoft’s modern desktop strategy, allowing organizations to deploy and manage Windows 10 without an on-premises Active Directory domain. Microsoft announced several new features that will make it easier to manage Windows 10 using Intune.

The month of Septemeber was filled with SharePoint news from Ignite 2018 and Shane helps you find the signal in all the noise.

Microsoft announced at its Ignite conference on Monday a new service called Windows Virtual Desktop that will preview later this year. In today’s Ask the Admin, I’ll take a closer look at exactly what this service provides.