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Aidan Finn explains how app services, or web apps, can be connected to external users or services.

Because March showers bring the Apocalypse, this edition of Short Takes looks at Microsoft helping Intel to ship firmware updates, Microsoft and Google going after Slack, a new boss for Cortana, and so much more.

Aidan Finn explains how you can run Azure App Services in an isolated or virtual network-connected deployment and why, despite the price, it was the right choice for some projects he has been working on.

Is Azure SQL highly available? Spoiler alert… Yes, Azure SQL has automated high availability.

In today’s Ask the Admin, Russell Smith shows you how to log in to Puppet master using Secure Shell, accept the certificate from the Windows Server node, and how to test connectivity between agent and master.

In this Ask the Admin, Russell Smith shows you how to disable Fast Startup, explains what it does, and discusses why you might want to disable it.

Six months after allowing users from other Office 365 domains to access Teams as guest users, Microsoft now supports access from any email address. You can now invite people to join teams from Gmail, Yahoo! Mail, Yandex, Outlook.com, or any other email system. The same basic Azure B2B collaboration flow is used to invite guests and redeem the invitations, so it should be a well-worn path for administrators at this stage.

This month is all about Redstone 4, always-connected PCs, and changes to the SKU lineup and licensing.

In a recent post on the Google AdSense blog, Google announced AdSense Auto Ads, the firm’s latest AdSense offering that uses machine learning to determine the best type of ad and the best location for that ad to be displayed on a webpage.

Aidan Finn summarizes everything that was announced or changed in the world of Azure infrastructure.

Shane Young shares a monthly dose of Office 365 information.

Shane Young shares a monthly break down of the content you need to know and his two cents on what you should do with it