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The Windows 10 Fall Creators Update and Windows Server 1709 include a beta OpenSSH server and client. In this Ask the Admin, I will discuss how OpenSSH differs from PowerShell Remoting.

Jasper Oosterveld compares the Modern SharePoint experience to the Classic SharePoint experience.

Because winter in Narnia was shorter than this, this edition of Short Takes looks at Microsoft’s coming $1 trillion market cap valuation, a major Surface Laptop correction, Microsoft v. AWS, and much, much more.

Jeff Hicks discusses Microsoft releasing the next generation of PowerShell tools as PowerShell 6.0.

The Meltdown vulnerability is clearly serious, especially if you run on-premises servers. But if you use Office 365, should you be worried? Well, maybe, but when you sign up for a cloud service, you transfer responsibility for understanding and responding to threat to the service provider. Over to Microsoft…

In this Ask the Admin, Russell Smith uses a PowerShell script to populate Active Directory with test user accounts.

Amazon recently announced AWS Auto Scaling, a new service that enables admins to simultaneously configure scaling options for multiple AWS resources.

Aidan Finn explains how you can use WebJobs to execute tasks on Azure App Service.

Microsoft announced the general availability of PowerShell Core 6.0 on January 10th. In this Ask the Admin, we will look at the roadmap for PowerShell and some of the dramatic changes since Microsoft announced that PowerShell will be open source.

Office 365 Groups (and Teams) can quickly become obsolete, but administrators need some help to find the underused groups. PowerShell comes to the rescue through a mixture of checks against the group mailbox, Office 365 audit log, and Teams compliance records. A nice HTML report is the result – and isn’t that always welcome.

Microsoft has cut more employees from its payroll today, with a heavy impact to the Windows and Devices Group.

Google recently announced that Salesforce’s Sales Cloud will be integrated with Google Analytics 360, enabling businesses to better track and analyze customer data.