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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.

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.