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Microsoft and Red Hat are deepening their relationship to make it easier to run containers in your environment regardless of the operating system.

Microsoft is working on ways to improve how tenants receive support for Office 365. The problem is that they haven’t told anyone what they or doing or why they are changing the support process. Some good things are happening, but it’s all cloaked in darkness.

In this Ask the Admin, Russell Smith looks at how you can secure Office 2016 macros and VBA code to prevent attacks.

Microsoft is removing some ReFS functionality from Windows 10 Pro likely to force users to a higher-priced version of the operating system.

In this Ask the Admin, Russell Smith looks at the different ways Azure can be managed from the command line, including Cloud Shell, which is currently in preview.

Because it’s important to curate images on the Bing home page, this edition of Short Takes looks at the new Skype on Windows, Microsoft’s case for Defender, Bill Gates nets $4.6 billion, and much more.

Aidan Finn shows you how to execute Azure Automation runbooks from your phone.

Aidan Finn explains how elements of the Azure App Service are executed in instances of an Azure App Service plan and what those plans are.

The European Union will introduce the General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) in May 2018. The intention is to deliver better protection for personal data, which is laudable. Like with many regulations, the problems arise in implementation. Office 365 holds a lot of personal data, so Office 365 tenants must cope with GDPR.

In a recent update, Amazon announced Amazon Macie, a new security service that uses machine learning to discover, classify, and secure data stored in Amazon S3 at scale.

In this Ask the Admin, Russell Smith explains why you probably should not enable Untrusted Font Blocking in Group Policy.

In this Ask the Admin, Russell Smith explains how Progressive Web Apps could change the future of apps across all platforms.