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Migrating, managing, backing up, and protecting useless data has a cost. Are you willing to pay it?

Office 365 now includes out-of-the-box email encryption, which might just mean that the era of using S/MIME and PGP might be coming to a close, at least inside Office 365. The new functionality scores highly on ease of use and integration, but the lack of support in the current Outlook desktop clients means that adoption will be slow.

Microsoft is now ready to start rolling out SharePoint hub sites but there is a catch as it’s not coming to everyone today.

This month, Microsoft patches a remote code execution vulnerability for CredSSP, helps Intel distribute microcode updates to protect against Spectre Variant 2, and Office 2016 gets updated to version 1803.

Aidan Finn discusses some architectural elements that you will use if you wish to deploy services across availability zones within a single Azure region.

Microsoft has announced Windows Server 2019 and you can download preview bits today to test before the platform reaches general availability.

Microsoft is at the Open Compute Project Summit and the company is going public with Denali, a next-generation spec for solid-state storage.

Today, at an online event, Microsoft is discussing how technology can improve employee engagement and communications; we have embedded the live stream so that you can view the conference.

Since Office 365 appeared in 2011, Microsoft’s collaboration story has varied according to whatever technology is available. Originally based on Exchange and SharePoint, it’s gone through Yammer, Office 365 Groups, and now Teams. You’d be forgiven for being confused by the frequent changes in the strategy du jour. And now we have inner and outer loops to consider, at least according to Microsoft’s favorite collaboration slide. Here’s my take.

Aidan Finn shows you how to deploy an internal Azure Service Environment, which will share its hosted app services via an internal load balancer.

In today’s corporate environment IT administrators typically need to manage many different remote systems but it’s important to know the gaps in these offerings too.

Amazon recently announced a new pricing model for its EC2 Spot Instance offering, which makes it easier to purchase spare AWS compute power with fewer service interruptions than before.