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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is talking up the company’s cloud chops in artificial intelligence. Azure and Office 365 are chock-full of machine-learning facilities, he says. Over the past few days, he’s appeared on stage in Dublin and London, preaching the gospel of AI and FPGAs. And now Microsoft’s donated Azure credits to a UK research consortium that specializes in data science…

Because I’m still sick and I’m taking this entire town down with me, this edition of Short Takes focuses on the PC market nosedive, whether Microsoft should buy Fitbit, Samsung profits are exploding like its phones, Blackberry will try to license its mobile OS, and a lot more.

Find out how to enable Modern Authentication in Exchange Online so that 2FA-enabled Office 365 can use Outlook 2013 or later.

Learn how to enable two-factor authentication on a Microsoft Account with the help of Microsoft’s Authenticator mobile app.

Russell Smith describes how to access DSC node reports in Azure Automation DSC using the management portal.

A relaxed week between the bedlam of Ignite and the calmness of the IT/DEV Connections conference in Las Vegas gives me a chance to catch up with some of the less-important but still worthy things I learned about recently. The Exchange team celebrated the 20th anniversary of the product, another of its leaders joined the Microsoft SLT, email from Paul Robichaux caused some problems, and the new Office 365 Admin Center finally reached general availability.

Russell explain what multi-factor authentication is and why you should enable it.

Find out about the new H-Series Azure virtual machine, which was launched by Microsoft at the Ignite Conference in Atlanta.

Microsoft is working on a new collaborative tool called Skype Teams and now we are starting to learn more about the individual features that will be included inside of the tool.

Microsoft has made a big thing about the one-click option in the Exchange Online Administration Center (EAC) to convert a traditional email distribution group to an Office 365 Group. However, the option only works for groups that consist of Exchange Online mailboxes.

Let’s examine whether there are any features in Windows Server 2016 that might be worth SMEs upgrading to it.

Aidan Finn walks you through the second technical preview release of Azure Stack, Microsoft’s on-premises version of Azure, that was released at Microsoft Ignite 2016 in Atlanta.