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Aidan Finn discusses what Azure Containers can do and how they can be used and managed in Azure.

Because there’s a new Call of Duty out and I feel a, ahem, cold coming on, this edition of Short Takes looks at the Xbox One X, a very public Edge crash, a free way to upgrade to Windows 10, and more.

Microsoft is bringing several new features to its IoT platform with the Fall Creators update to increase security and make the devices easier to manage.

Aidan Finn explains how Azure’s Logic Apps service can be used to orchestrate activities in the platform-as-a-service side of Azure.

Microsoft is turning up the heat on Amazon and Oracle by offering a new tool that will take the pain out of migrating databases and they are offering it for free.

Exchange Online Protection now highlights unauthenticated users – or messages that come from people who cannot prove their identity. Instead of a nice picture (or avatar), you see a question mark for the user. Maybe this might make people think twice about the opportunity to send money to someone to liberate funds held in a bank. Just maybe.

In the coming weeks, Microsoft is going to release a free cross-platform tool that will help you improve the performance bottlenecks in your SQL databases.

Aidan Finn discusses Service Fabric, a microservices deployment compute-based system in Azure.

Aidan Finn discusses Microsoft’s development of a deeply re-factored version of the Windows Server Remote Desktop Services infrastructure, which leverages the power of Windows Server, Azure PaaS, and Azure AD.

Microsoft is bringing Microsoft 365 out of preview and as it graduates, the company is adding a couple new apps to the service.

Aidan Finn explains how Functions enable serverless code execution in Azure.

A year ago, Microsoft said RPC over HTTP was dead from Oct 31, 2017 and that Outlook clients must use MAPI over HTTP to connect to Exchange Online. The protocol is still dead, but it will persist in a zombie-like unsupported mode. The question is for how long?