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Because it’s the gift that keeps on giving, this special holiday edition of Short Takes looks at Microsoft v. Google, the next version of Windows 10, some new Apple controversies, Eric Schmidt, and much, much more.

In part two of this series on deploying Active Directory and a member server running certificate services in Microsoft Azure, Russell Smith shows you how to add a PowerShell Desired State Configuration resource to the project.

Creating great content in Microsoft Teams is all very well. But what happens when some not-so-good content turns up or the CEO posts something secret into a public team? You might just want to remove those messages. It’s all good as long as you don’t need to remove complete threads or messages from multiple teams, at which point things get tiresome.

Conquer your Remote Desktop challenges by overcoming a few of the more common hurdles.

Aidan Finn discusses what the recent GA of system state protection by Azure Backup means for you and shows how to add system state to MARS agent backup policy.

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.