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Aidan Finn reviews his highlights in the last year of Azure infrastructure improvements. Please share your highlights too.

In today’s Ask the Admin, Russell Smith shows you how Windows Defender Application Guard can protect enterprise users against malicious websites.

Aidan Finn explains some of the language that is used to specify and size Azure SQL, the database-as-a-service offering from Microsoft Azure.

With the patching of the Meltdown vulnerability, there will be serious impacts to performance to older CPUs and thanks to Microsoft, we now have a better understanding of the implications of this security flaw.

In the final part of this series, Russell Smith shows you how to use the code I created in the previous two installments to provision the resources in Azure.

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.