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Microsoft told us some months ago that they would block the creation of new eDiscovery cases in Exchange and SharePoint. A course reversal has happened because of the humble discovery mailbox, which Exchange uses as a target for eDiscovery results. The block has lifted for Exchange but remains for SharePoint. It will eventually happen for Exchange but Office 365-wide functionality is better than workload-specific features.

During the past few weeks, Microsoft has defined the path forward for on-premises users and while they are not abandoning local deployments they do give preference to the cloud.

Aidan Finn looks at Microsoft’s recently launched Azure Backup Server, additional support for Windows Server 2016, and VMware 6.5 to its on-premises extension to the cloud backup service.

Aidan Finn discusses how to enable disaster recovery replication of Azure virtual machines from one region to another region, which will enable your services to survive a massive outage in an Azure data center or region.

Microsoft is closing the operational facility where the company was building its Surface Hub but I don’t believe this is the end of the line for this device.

Take advantage of the Hybrid Cloud capabilities in Windows Server 2016.

Microsoft makes it easy for companies to use Office 365 and has been very successful in moving customers to the cloud. But when you get to the cloud and find that your company is involved in a corporate merger, acquisition, or split, things are not so easy because the tools to do the work don’t exist. Some glimmer of hope exists as ISVs have started to take interest in the space.

Aidan Finn explains how to customize the functionality of Compute Resiliency, which is a feature that increases tolerance of transient errors in Hyper-V failover clusters.

At Inspire, Microsoft has announced a new tier of services that they are calling Microsoft 365 that will serve as the virtual wrapper of the company’s SaaS products.

Microsoft and its partners are finally ready to start selling Azure Stack hardware but sadly, few options available to retrofit existing hardware.

Aidan Finn discusses learning about Platform-as-a-Service.

This week, Microsoft has made at least two changes to high-level position at the company with a CVP and the CIO leaving the company.