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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

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.