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Microsoft’s Surface Book 2 has been available for six months and it’s time to look back at the good, the bad and the indifferent aspects of the hardware.

Planner now supports guest user access to its plans. Office 365 tenants will celebrate this feature because they’ve been waiting for it to arrive. It’s curious that it has taken Microsoft so long to upgrade Planner for this feature given that Groups and Teams have had this capability for a while. But it’s here now, so enjoy.

This month the Windows 10 April 2018 Update finally drops, although some Intel SSDs don’t seem to be happy about it, and a zero-day vulnerability is being exploited in the wild.

Microsoft is announcing a new feature for SharePoint today called Spaces that will bring Mixed Reality to the collaboration platform.

Because I’m so tired my eyes hurt, this week’s edition of Short Takes examines Surface Hub 2, a rumored $400 Surface tablet, the unbearable shyness of a young Bill Gates, and so much more.

Google recently announced that the beta of its Cloud Memorystore service is now available to the general public.

Google recently announced Asylo, the firm’s newest open-source framework for securing and protecting applications and data that are contained within a trusted execution environment.

Outlook.com (premium) now boasts two new protected email features taken directly from Exchange Online. It’s an example of how the shared Office 365 infrastructure enables Microsoft to make functionality available to users of its consumer and enterprise platforms as they want. OneDrive Restore is another example. In both cases, the features aren’t available to free seats.

In today’s Ask the Admin, I’ll look at how you can use the Reliability Monitor in Windows 10 to solve problems.

Aidan Finn shows you how you can quickly deploy an Azure virtual machine for evaluation purposes.

DataLabs allows developers and operations teams to use production-like workloads to validate updates, security vulnerabilities, forensics and GDPR compliance.

Microsoft has unveiled the Surface Hub 2 and while it has a similar name to the original product, the company is making significant changes to the hardware.