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Microsoft is bringing more features to Azure including tech from Apache Spark to create a new Azure Databricks service.

After early adopters were not able to upgrade in time, Microsoft is extending support of Windows 10 1511 by six months for Enterprise and Education customers.

My Tasks App is a new feature that is not delivered as a regular Microsoft Teams App but as the integration of the Planner My Tasks page into Teams.

A new premium Azure Active Directory feature allows you to force group owners to certify that external members should have continued access. Given that Office 365 Groups and Microsoft Teams now both support guest users, it is wise to check on who can access what from time to time. Whether you will want to pay extra for such a feature is quite another matter!

In a recent post on the AWS blog, Amazon announced the addition of several new encryption and security features that are now available to AWS S3 customers.

Because friends don’t let friends use Linux, this edition of Short Takes looks at Kroger’s Amazon problem, Salesforce’s CEO problem, the enterprise’s LinkedIn problem, Intel’s GPU problem, and all kinds of other problems.

In today’s Ask the Admin, Russell Smith shows you how you can manage the new OneDrive Files On-Demand feature in the Fall Creators Update.

Amazon recently announced the availability of new AWS Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) P3 instances, which are ideal for computation-intensive activities.

Microsoft is expanding the footprint of Advanced Threat Protection with the ability to now monitor iOS and Android devices.

Microsoft has a new tool for Office365 customers that uses LinkedIn data to help you build a better resume.

Microsoft has released a beta version of the Teams PowerShell module. The only problem is that the module is not very good. In fact, the module is very disappointing because it does not contain the cmdlets that an Office 365 administrator might except to automate operations around Teams. Maybe the 1.0 release will be better. We can only hope!

The hybrid cloud has a lot to offer and here are the five biggest benefits of the new hybrid environments.