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The future of Cortana may be vastly different than what most imagined but it makes a lot of sense for Microsoft.

Microsoft announced at Ignite that you can soon manage Teams through the Teams and Skype for Business Online Admin Center. Office 365 administrators will welcome this because it means that they can manage teams without being a member of those teams. And they can avoid PowerShell, which is a pity.

Aidan discusses some of the great news about managing and ensuring governance in Microsoft Azure that was shared at the Ignite conference this week.

Aidan shares the latest information that I have on various Azure announcements that don’t easily fit into other categories.

Microsoft released lots of information about Exchange 2019 at the Ignite conference. Administrators will love some of the new features, but end users will find little to amuse them. But then again, the Exchange on-premises story is all about being a bulletproof enterprise-class email server. And that’s just what Exchange 2019 delivers.

Just before Microsoft’s Ignite conference got started this week, version 1809 of the Windows Admin Center and SDK reached general availability. In this Ask the Admin, I’ll look at some of the new features.

Microsoft is making Office 2019 available starting today but only for a small group of customers; consumers will have to wait a few more weeks.

This week at Ignite, Microsoft has announced a sizeable amount of data storage news and Aidan breaks it all down for easy consumption.

Microsoft has announced the availability of Surface Hub 2 for 2019 but it’s complicated and the next-gen OS won’t arrive until much later.

Windows Virtual Desktop is a new cloud service that delivers a multi-user Windows 10 experience which is optimized to work with Office 365 Pro Plus.

Microsoft is making available the next generation of on-premises SQL Server software but be aware that this is a preview and not the final package.

Microsoft has announced that Windows Server 2019 will arrive next month and if you are still running 2008, you need to start planning your upgrade.