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Aidan Finn explains the two ways that you can deploy a web-based application in Azure.

Microsoft Workplace Analytics is not a “Fitbit for the enterprise” that you can deploy off-the-shelf to get instantly usable information. Expect to invest considerable time or spend some consulting dollars to make sense of organization dynamics, office politics, and internal friction. All the stuff that makes working in large companies so worthwhile!

Microsoft has released the first Release Candidate of SQL Server 2017 which means major development work is complete and that the retail release is around the corner.

Aidan Finn discusses the features of Microsoft’s 2 new series of virtual machines, the D_v3 and the E_v3, which are successors to the D_v2-Series.

In this Ask the Admin, Russell Smith shows you how to turn on Storage Sense in the Windows 10 Creators Update.

Because Brad just took a baseball bat to a hornet’s nest, this edition of Short Takes looks at Microsoft as a Service, the Windows Server Insider Program, a Surface Hub non-controversy, Microsoft’s AI push, and more.

Shane Young walks you through getting your SharePoint list data visualized through a fancy Power BI Report.

Microsoft has released today the first Insider build of Windows Server, a pre-release version of the platform that allows you to test new features before they ship in a final product.

Aidan Finn discusses the preview that has been launched to allow you to centrally visualize and report on your usage of Azure Backup.

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.