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Microsoft announced that Azure Backup Server (MABS) added support for ESXi 5.5 and 6.0 (with or without vCenter) with the recently released Update 1 for Azure Backup Server. Find out what this means for VMware users.

Aidan Finn introduces you to the new GUI-based tool for deploying Windows Server 2016 (WS2016) Nano Server.

Learn why containers are more efficient than virtual machines, and the benefits of using Docker images with containers.

If you examine the network connections opened by an Outlook 2016 client, you might find many connections established to the mailboxes belonging to Office 365 Groups. Using connections to grab data is fine, but why are the connections quite so persistent and what do they do anyway?

Learn how to deploy the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) and import a Windows 10 image ready for distribution over the network using Windows Deployment Services (WDS).

Walk through the troubleshooting steps for when you are unable to log into a Windows virtual machine (VM) in Azure via a remote desktop connection (aka RDP).

Take a look at Microsoft’s newest contribution to the Open Compute Project (OCP), which gives us a peek behind the curtain and suggests what the next generation of Azure hosts will look like.

If you need to ensure that users have the correct Office 365 licenses assigned, and that licenses are automatically revoked as users are deprovisioned, then look to a third-party solution, such as Softerra Adaxes, to automating licensing.

Microsoft CVP Julia White says that it’s time to dispel the top cloud myths of 2016. It’s good to have an opinion on these matters, but when an interested party like Microsoft advances a case that something is a myth, you have to ask yourself whether the myths are true or not. So here’s a look at those six top cloud myths in the context of Office 365.

Microsoft and HPE have announced that they are expanding their partnership to help train and advance the deployment of Azure Stack.

Microsoft’s cloud backup solution, Azure Backup, has added new protections to defend your data against deliberate attacks. Find out what this means for you.

The news that Office 365 achieved 99.99% availability in the last quarter comes as no real surprise. As cloud services become ever more massive, it becomes harder for any incident to affect a service’s SLA in any meaningful way.