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Because Build 2017 made for a very long week, this edition of Short Takes looks at Microsoft’s new Windows strategy, the Fall Creators Update, the Microsoft Graph, Microsoft Edge, Mixed Reality, and more.

Russell Smith shows you how to use Windows Update for Business policy settings to create deployment rings for Windows 10 Feature Updates.

Microsoft has announced that they are bringing back one of their most requested features, placeholders for OneDrive and SharePoint.

Microsoft has announced that they are bringing more flavors of Linux to Windows 10 and that the features will be installable from the Windows Store.

Aidan Finn walks you through configuring a StorSimple appliance as a file server/NAS.

Microsoft has released the Report Message add-in for Outlook 2016 to help Office 365 users report when spam arrives into Inboxes or messages are incorrectly treated as Junk. It’s a good way to get information about new threats to Microsoft security researchers.

Microsoft is once again on the offensive and is going after Oracle customers with a new migration service to help those users leave that database platform.

Microsoft’s Windows 10 OS is growing quickly and is showing few signs of slowing down.

Microsoft has announced a new DB service for Azure that they are calling Cosmos that is available everywhere starting today.

Aidan Finn explains the benefits of using Azure Managed Disks with availability sets.

The hybrid cloud has become an integral part of most business IT infrastructures, and many businesses have begun to leverage it for core IT services. Find out how the hybrid cloud can be used as a backup target and for disaster recovery.

Russell Smith shows you how to get up and running quickly with Device Guard in Windows 10 Enterprise.