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Avoid these five common hybrid cloud mistakes to make sure that your environment is ready for the modern infrastructure.

Microsoft launched the long-awaited external access for Teams on Sept 11. The downside is that only Azure AD accounts are supported, but the functionality is sufficient to support interaction between Office 365 tenants. You can access a team in my tenant and I can access a team in yours. What’s not to like about that?

Jeff Hicks shares tips on getting started using the features and commands of the PSReadline module.

Microsoft recently launched a limited public preview of Archive Storage and Blob-Level Tiering in Azure storage accounts. What does this mean for Azure customers?

Microsoft has announced that they have begun rolling out Guest access for Teams and that over 125,000 organizations are now using the platform.

Microsoft isn’t killing Skype for Business but the company will be changing up how it is serviced and is trying to move customers to Teams.

Because tech partnerships are such fun, this edition of Short Takes looks at Microsoft and DACA, Microsoft and Adobe, a security hole Microsoft won’t fix, a security offering Microsoft is now trialing, and much more.

Aidan Finn shows you how to use Azure virtual machine performance threshold alerts to trigger email alerts or start automated-response actions.

Aidan Finn teaches how to capture packets from the NICs of Azure virtual machines using Network Watcher and inspect Azure network traffic at the packet level using Wireshark.

Office 365 allows you to block a user when necessary, as when someone is leaving the organization. You can also initiate a forced sign-out, but the option to do so is buried in the user’s OneDrive for Business settings, which seems like a logical place to find it!

In this Ask the Admin, Russell Smith looks at Chromebooks and why they have become a popular choice for small businesses.

Google is sending Chromebooks to Microsoft resellers and customers in an attempt to get them to explore what Google has to offer.