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Microsoft is preparing to offer a free SKU of Teams with the long-term goal of hoping that these users will upgrade to Office 365 to unlock all the features.

Because he started it, this edition of Short Takes looks at HP’s PC resurgence, Intel’s next mobile setback, Always Connected PCs, the limits of Windows 10 on ARM, and much more.

In today’s Ask the Admin, Russell Smith shows you how to set up Puppet Enterprise Master in Azure and provision Windows Server so that it bootstraps with the Puppet agent installed.

In a recent post on the Google Cloud Platform blog, Google announced the beta availability of their new Cloud TPUs, which were designed to speed up various machine learning processes that use the TensorFlow framework.

The next generation of wireless connectivity is launching soon and next year, Windows 10 PCs with 5G will be released by various OEMs.

GDPR is coming and Office 365 tenants need to be prepared to deal with topics like data spillage and the right to be forgotten. It’s easy to see how to remove someone’s PII from Exchange mailboxes and SharePoint Online, but you might have a bigger challenge dealing with offline data in PSTs and OneDrive-synchronized folders. More to ponder…

Aidan Finn tells you about a service in Azure called Key Vault, which you can think of as secret storage/handling-as-a-service.

This month’s cumulative update for the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update sees the OS build bumped to version 16299.248.

Shane Young has already introduced you to building your first Power BI report and your first PowerApps app. Now, he is going to make sure you know about the coolest idea ever, combining the two.

It’s time to start seriously planning your migration to the cloud and starting with SharePoint has the ability to pay immediate dividends.

Now that so many apps (like Teams) create Office 365 Groups, it’s logical that some of the groups will serve their purpose and then need to be archived. Office 365 offers no way to do this, but conceptually it’s a reasonably easy task and something that PowerShell handles with aplomb.

Aidan Finn discusses Azure DevTest Labs, a way to provide self-service for developers and testers with helpful automation but budge control for the business.