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Microsoft has outlined the features coming in the next major update of Windows and there are a few items that will interest IT Pros too.

In this Ask the Admin, Russell Smith explains what hyper-convergence is and how it can help simplify your IT systems.

Aidan Finn grades his predictions on what would happen with Hyper-V and Microsoft cloud computing in the year of 2017.

Microsoft and VMware are friends again with both companies agreeing to work together to bring VMware products to Microsoft’s cloud.

Office 365 Groups have been very good for SharePoint Online. Because many apps use Groups, they also use SharePoint, even if they don’t know it. Teams, Planner, Yammer, StaffHub, Stream, and Groups in Outlook (or whatever the name is this week) all drive SharePoint usage. SharePoint Online is Office 365 document management, and that’s a good thing.

Veeam, once a niche company with a unique product has been growing at a serious rate the past couple of years is releasing their biggest update in 10 years.

Aidan Finn discusses how to estimate your consumption using the public Azure pricing calculator.

PowerShell for SPO is a tool not only for platform administration and configuration tasks but also for doing many other common activities.

Amazon has announced a new unified agent for their AWS CloudWatch monitoring service, making it easier for admins to log and view data.

In this “how to” post, Aidan Finn shows you how to use Azure Automation to scale up (increase) or scale down (decrease) the size of an Azure virtual machine.

In this Ask the Admin, Russell Smith shows you what Office 365 Secure Score can do for the online security of your business.

Because there’s a chill in the air, this edition of Short Takes looks at Microsoft’s embrace of fake news, OpenSSH in Windows 10, more bad news for Microsoft Edge, mixed news for Xbox One, and much, much more.