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Aidan Finn explains the role of web app deployment slots in Azure and how to use them.

In this Ask the Admin, Russell Smith outlines some of the security features in Windows Server that can be used to help keep sensitive accounts safe.

Because I am thankful for a short work week, this edition of Short Takes looks at Microsoft’s portable gaming acumen, a Skype disaster in China, Meg Whitman’s exit from HP Enterprise, Belgium vs. in-game gambling, and much more.

In this Ask the Admin, Russell Smith shows you how to be sure the source media you use to install software in your business hasn’t been tampered with.

Microsoft’s Compliance Manager is intended to help cloud tenants cope with regulations like ISO 27001 and GDPR. The Compliance Manager has a nice dashboard, but it is passive and offers very weak options in terms of organizing the work needed to achieve compliance. But Office 365 has Planner and Teams, and it is easy to create the necessary collaboration structure to allow people to work on GDPR controls.

Microsoft released Compliance Manager Preview, after initially announcing the new service during Ignite 2017 in late September. It is, for now at least, a free service for existing Office 365 customers, that aims to provide a management interface for organization’s compliance management activities.

Google recently announced the general availability of their BigQuery Data Transfer Service, which can be used to automate the transfer of data from SaaS applications into Google’s cloud-based BigQuery data warehouse service.

Aidan Finn shows you how to create a new web app using Azure App Services, the PaaS alternative to running web services on virtual machines.

Because perfect is the enemy of good, this edition of Short Takes looks at Windows as a (dis)service, Windows 10 on ARM performance, Satya Nadella’s biggest problem, Surface Book 2, and more.

In this Ask the Admin, Russell Smith explains how Controlled Folder Access can help protect users against ransomware.

The European SharePoint Conference took place in Dublin, Ireland this week. The SharePoint content was top-notch and the conference ran smoothly, but I was a little disappointed at the relative lack of Office 365 coverage despite the claim made in the conference moniker.

Jasper Oosterveld, Microsoft MVP and Consultant at InSpark, introduces the new attention view in SharePoint Document Libraries. Making our lives, while working with metadata, a little bit easier.