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The Teams PowerShell module is flawed, but that does not mean that you cannot do work with it. Here’s a primer of the most important cmdlets, together with a link to a rather interesting approach to finding out what Office 365 Groups are team-enabled.

Learn about the main Hybrid Cloud security risks so that you are protected as you add complexity to your data center.

Aidan Finn discuss the recent expansions of Azure, adding support for virtual machines to more regions, and the expansion of the number of regions internationally.

In a recent announcement, Google introduced Community Connectors to Data Studio, which is designed to make data collection, analysis, and visualization easier. What’s more is that users can also share their connectors with others.

Because it’s the end of the world as we know it, this edition of Short Takes looks at the many issues swirling around the Spectre and Meltdown security vulnerabilities. TDLR: We’re doomed.

In this three-part series, Russell Smith discusses how he deployed an Active Directory forest with 2 domain controllers and a member server running certificate services in Microsoft Azure.

Microsoft Teams is the hot property in Office 365 right now, but sometimes its user interface shows signs of immaturity. For example, when you got back to work after the holidays, you might have seen a ton of new activity to deal with. Email clients have rules, views, and automated assistants to help with the load, but with Teams you have to sort it all out yourself.

Amazon is expanding the footprint of its cloud platform with Linux 2, an on-premises software package that can be used to build out a hybrid-IT shop but it does have one key drawback.

In today’s Ask the Admin, Russell Smith looks at the pros and cons of each browser for use in the enterprise.

Get connected to PowerApps and create your first app.

Microsoft has a new Information Protection guide to help Office 365 tenants prepare for GDPR. The guide is incomplete because it focuses on SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business, but it contains some good information that will help companies figure out what they need to do to prepare for the May 25, 2018 deadline. Expect more guides of this type to appear in the future.

Because there’s a chill in the air, this short New Year edition of Short Takes looks at Windows Hello security, Surface Pro with LTE, and much, much more.