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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.

Because my Surface hibernated and it won’t wake up, this edition of Short Takes looks at this week’s curiously vague Microsoft layoffs, a new timeline for a Windows 10 feature, OneDrive and Skype controversies, and much more.

Shane Young explains how Power BI interacts with SharePoint Online lists to build cool reports and display those reports on SharePoint.

Recent developments show that a fully-populated Azure Active Directory is considered by Microsoft to be a core part of the overall Office 365 “experience.” Yet many tenants have partly-populated directories. Is that a problem? Or might it be a future problem?