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Companies that can effectively use their data assets have a significant advantage over their competitors; Microsoft commissioned a new study that highlights the true value of digging in deep to your databases.

Aidan Finn shows you how to delegate administrative access of an Azure subscription to users in an external Azure Active Directory (AD) Domain.

Microsoft’s cloud: ready for Germany. Two new data centers now open for Azure IaaS/PaaS, with Office and Dynamics SaaS coming soon. Germany is well known for its strict data-privacy laws. And it’s one of the largest economies in the European Union. So it was a sensible location choice after the UK DCs opened earlier this month…

Microsoft has finally removed the ‘Get Windows 10’ app with an update to Windows 10 that officially closes the book on the company’s controversial upgrade practices.

In today’s Ask the Admin, Russell shows you how to apply locks to Azure resources, to prevent accidental deletion or to make them read-only.

[Sponsored] With the increasing sophistication of hackers, and the rising black market price of sensitive data IT has a huge target on its back which means a SIEM solutions are critical.

Today, Microsoft announced an audacious new goal: its researchers will attempt to “solve” cancer by treating the disease group as information processing systems that can be modeled and reasoned, and then use sophisticated analysis tools to better understand and treat cancer.

Aidan shows you how you can fail over an Internet web service from a “local” data centre to Azure, which could optionally be included in a design for Azure Site Recovery (ASR).

Azure recently experienced a nasty outage, lasting several hours. It seems to have been centered around DNS, but had wide side effects. Microsoft’s cloud platform took something of a beating. By the sound of it, a DDoS could have been to blame. Or not. Redmond isn’t saying…

In this post, Aidan talks about the effects on administrators of the launch of the new regions for Azure and Office 365 in the United Kingdom (UK).

On this episode, I cover all of the Microsoft news this week including Surface AIO dreams, Band debacles, a new build of Windows 10 with a few hints tucked away and a lot more in the world of Microsoft

Because it’s International iPhone Day today, this edition of Short Takes focuses on the iPhone 6SE (sorry, iPhone 7), ongoing problems with the Windows 10 Anniversary Update, Microsoft’s terrible new Surface ads, Microsoft Stores are now offering small business support, a Samsung Galaxy Note 7 recall, and more.