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Aidan Finn explains how Azure automatically protects any databases you create with the Azure SQL service.

Microsoft is playing hardball and will offer corporate customers free ‘One Drive’ services if they are currently contracted with another vendor.

Microsoft has released some useful updates for the Office 365 Planner app, but external access is still not there, which is baffling. On the other hand, you now have an OWA-like schedule view, filters to suppress tasks that you don’t want to see, and better notifications to tell you when you must do some work. And an iCalendar feed is coming soon to allow you to clutter up your Outlook calendar with even more stuff.

In this Ask the Admin, Russell Smith looks at how the solution works and why you should use it when it reaches general availability.

Aidan Finn shares the results of some stress tests that were run on the Azure virtual machines with and without the Accelerated Networking feature enabled.

Aidan Finn describes a preview feature of Network Security Groups, called Application Security Groups, which allows you dynamically assign firewall policies to groups of Azure virtual machines.

Because we get much closer to Spring every day, this edition of Short Takes corporate earnings from Microsoft, Google, Apple, and Amazon, and some of the interesting facts we can mine from each. Plus some other stuff.

Microsoft is making more changes to the lifecycle support of Windows 10 and this time, they are giving you six more months to upgrade.

Aidan Finn discusses things you should consider when designing an Azure App Service deployment.

Microsoft’s second quarter ended on December 31st and the company announced earnings for the time period of revenue of $28.9 billion which is a 12% increase over the prior year.

The month of January was filled with SharePoint news and in this monthly breakdown, Shane highlights all of the important elements impacting the platform.

The month of January was filled with Office 365 news and in this monthly breakdown, Shane highlights all of the important elements impacting the platform.