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Because this literally isn’t your father’s Microsoft, this edition of Short Takes looks at a nonsense puff-piece about the software giant, a new SEC/DOJ investigation of Microsoft, a poor forecast for the PC industry, and much more.

In the final part of this two-part article, Russell shows you how to install Puppet 5 on Red Hat Linux.

Microsoft has done a good job of helping Office 365 tenants prepare for GDPR, but the best intentions sometimes run into difficulties. Such as what you might find with the new GDPR Data Loss Prevention policy template, which does an excellent job of finding things like European tax numbers… but sometimes too good a job.

Windows Server 2019 is all about improved support for hybrid cloud scenarios, hyper-converged infrastructure, and security. In this Ask the Admin, Russell looks more closely at these features in Windows Server 2019.

Microsoft is ending support for its Sway iOS app but the company says that they are not sunsetting the entire platform…yet.

In this Ask the Admin, Russell explains what Known Folder Migration (KFM) is in OneDrive for Business and show you how to configure it using Group Policy.

The licensing model for Teams is now per-user instead of tenant-wide. That’s fine if you leave everyone enabled for Teams, but removing licenses one at a time for a set of users through the Office 365 Admin Center is a tiresome and boring operation. PowerShell can help ease the pain, and here’s a script to do the job.

In this post, Aidan will show you how to deploy Azure File Sync to synchronize files from a file server to Azure, which you can then use to enable tiering of hot/cold files, inter-site replication, cloud-based backup. and disaster recovery.

Ahead of Microsoft’s Ignite conference, the company will combine the roadmaps for Office 365 and Microsoft 365 signaling that these two products will continue to be deeply intertwined.

This month sees a host of memory corruption vulnerabilities patched and Intel discovers a new speculative execution side channel flaw.

Because jetlag is the worst, this edition of Short Takes looks at Microsoft’s most recent Cortana defeats, stepping back from the Skype Classic cliff, so much for hybrid MDM, and much more.

Office 365 Groups and Teams can hold tons of secrets that we don’t want to share outside our organization. To keep sensitive information secure, you can block guest users from groups by setting a directory policy on your most important and confidential groups.