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The Microsoft Teams application is now generally available. Lots has been done to improve Teams since its preview release and Microsoft has made many good updates. Some edges remain for Microsoft to work on, but Teams is now more than a valid competitor for Slack in the chat-based collaboration market.

Microsoft Teams has reached general availability and with more than 50,000 organizations using the platform, it is off to a strong start.

Learn about the different types of Azure storage account and Managed Disks.

Office 365 is an incredibly powerful Cloud platform built on four strong pillars: collaboration, mobile, intelligent, and trust. Although these are very strong characteristics, instant adoption isn’t guaranteed. Learn how to drive adoption for Office 365 in this new series.

Aidan Finn shares details on when Microsoft plans to release Azure Stack, some partner news, how it will be licensed, and features in the new Technical Preview 3 (TP3) release.

This post will show you how to deploy a new Azure virtual machine using Managed Disks using the Azure Portal.

Find out how to set up a task-based project dashboard.

Todd Klindt and Shane Young talk about two-factor authentication hitting home in the last week and we remind you all to go turn it on yourself. Then discuss a new PowerShell Video Shane made that shows you how to copy, move, and delete SharePoint Online files using PowerShell and we hit on new features for OneDrive for Business and AD Group management for Office 365.

Learn how an attacker can move laterally across a network to get access to a domain controller.

Learn how to restore one or a few files from an Azure virtual machine backup without restoring the entire virtual machine, thanks to Azure Backup Instant File Recovery, currently in preview.

Because Project Olympus hasn’t yet fallen, this edition of Short Takes looks at a Wikileaks tech leak, Microsoft’s ARM server initiative, Google’s major new offensive against Microsoft’s enterprise businesses, Slack competitors, and more.

Google’s Jamboard will arrive in May for $4999 but the company is requiring that you pay an annual maintenance fee if you purchase the device.