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Aidan Finn discusses Microsoft’s launch of a new version of the F-Series virtual machines aimed at providing Xeon performance for application servers in Azure.

Because it’s beginning to look a lot like Festivus, this edition of Short Takes looks at the success of Windows 10, Microsoft’s ASLR blunders, Microsoft’s new-new gaming strategy, and much, much more.

Microsoft is forcing every company of every size to modernize their IT practices and while this may be a good thing for some, for others, it is creating a serious burden.

Saying that Teams will reduce the amount of email traffic is one thing; proving it is another. After making the case that Teams reduces email traffic, I set out to prove the case by looking at data in the Office 365 usage reports, Office 365 content pack for Power BI, and third-party reporting software.

Jasper Oosterveld compares the Modern SharePoint experience to the Classic SharePoint experience.

Amazon has announced a new security service for AWS called GuardDuty that will challenge Azure Advanced Threat Protection for the top spot for cloud security.

Aidan Finn shows you how you can upload your web content to an Azure web app using FTP.

Microsoft is pushing out a new service into preview that will finally bring location-based services to the cloud platform.

Some observers say that Teams will replace email. Well, Teams won’t because email still has so many advantages over what Teams offers. But Teams has its own capabilities that will lead it to take some of the traffic currently carried by email. Because of its internal focus, the traffic that moves to Teams is in-house chats, and Teams is a good place for those conversations to be.

In this Ask the Admin, Russell Smith explains how Windows Defender System Guard reorganizes existing security defenses.

An effective DR plan has a big ROI in a number of different ways but only if you construct it correctly.

VMware is upset with Microsoft over its new Azure service and will not provide support for the platform.