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Many Office 365 tenants use Planner for group-based task management. Generally, the application is OK and has been getting better. Now it can connect to Outlook to synchronize tasks into a user calendar, which then allows users to see tasks alongside their other commitments and print details off if needed. It’s an imperfect but acceptable solution to the lack of print capabilities within Planner.

SharePoint migration can be a daunting task but if you follow Shane’s guidance, the process can be significantly more manageable.

Aidan Finn explains how you can replace the OS disk of an Azure virtual machine with managed disks without touching the data disks.

Jasper Oosterveld, Microsoft MVP and Modern Workplace Consultant, dives into the importance of Governance when using Office 365 Groups.

Because traveling is the worst, this week’s edition of Short Takes examines Microsoft Build 2018, Microsoft product demotions, Google I/O 2108, and much, much more.

After the release of a patch for Windows Server 2016 on April 16th, it’s now possible to manage hyper-converged infrastructure using the Windows Admin Center.

Microsoft Teams now shows team owners when their team is going to expire – that if, if you use the Office 365 Groups expiration policy. But tenant administrators don’t have a report showing them when groups expire, so we wrote one in PowerShell for you to use (and improve).

If you haven’t moved to a hybrid cloud scenario, you should consider these benefits as there are many reasons to upgrade your environment.

Microsoft releases a preview of Storage Migration Service in the latest Insider version of Windows Server 2019. In this Ask the Admin, I’ll provide an overview of what it is and how it works.

GDPR comes into force on May 25, 2018. To help Office 365 tenant administrators respond to GDPR data subject requests, a new DSR case feature is available as a preview in the Security and Compliance Center. The feature is based on the existing eDiscovery case and content search functionality, so it should be very familiar to anyone who has searched Office 365 for email, documents, and other information.

Aidan Finn explains how the two options for associating a network security group (NSG) work, virtual machine NIC or subnet, and I’ll recommend a method to use.

At Microsoft’s Build conference, the company provided hints about what will be coming with Surface Hub v2.