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Microsoft has joined a Washington State lawsuit against a U.S. presidential Executive Order on immigration. The ban is unconstitutional.

Office 365 Connectors provide a means to connect network data sources such as Twitter, Trello, and RSS feeds to Office 365 Groups and Microsoft Teams. The out-of-the-box connectors work well, but there’s nothing like being able to process your own data, which is exactly what the Incoming Webhook connector allows you to do. In this example, we grab some Office 365 service incident information and post it to a group. All a mere matter of writing some PowerShell code.

Learn how to quickly deploy a Remote Desktop Services (RDS) farm in Microsoft Azure.

Microsoft’s upcoming Windows Cloud OS appears to follow the same path as Windows RT but will this SKU succeed the second time around?

Install the RTM version of the Remote Server Administration Tools for Windows 10.

Microsoft appears to be working on a new SKU for Windows called Cloud and early signs of its arrival have appeared in the latest Insider release.

Learn how to reset Windows Server security to default settings.

Because there’s nothing quite like the bitter taste of Starbucks coffee, this edition of Short focuses largely on Microsoft’s quarterly financial results.

Use virtual desktops in Windows 10 to improve productivity.

Microsoft’s FY17 Q2 results posted on January 26 boasted a 49% year-over-year growth in commercial Office 365 revenues, contributing to an annualized run rate for commercial cloud products that now “exceeds” $14 billion. The number of cloud users has grown again, underlying the continuing movement of work to the Office 365 and Azure.

Microsoft has released its second quarter earnings (first quarter calendar) with revenue of $24.1 billion GAAP, and $26.1 billion non-GAAP; this tops analysts estimates for the quarter.

Microsoft is working on a new shell for Windows that is internally being called Cloud Shell that looks to modernize Windows 10.