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Aidan walks through how to use the built-in tools for troubleshooting faulty virtual machines in Azure: diagnose tools, activity logs, resource health, boot diagnostics, reset password, redeploy, and support request.

In today’s Ask the Admin, I’ll look at why you might need to back up data stored in the cloud and two options for backing up Office 365.

Learn how to change which users can have their account credentials cached on read-only domain controllers (RODC).

Aidan explains a bit of the history of how System Center Advisor (SCA) has evolved into Azure Log Analytics (OMS). Microsoft is rapidly adding solutions to Log Analytics (OMS) so it can eventually replace SCOM.

Delta is experencing a global outage of its computer system becuase of a power outage at its headquarters which raises the question as to why they don’t have a backup facility located in another part of the country.

This handy Office tip demonstrates two techniques to export images from a Word document.

On this episode, I cover all of the Microsoft news this week including now more feature releases this year, cutting features from Windows 10 Pro, Anniversary update and Xbox One S release.

Because I still dream in French, this edition of Short Takes focuses on Apple’s and Microsoft’s new emojis, Nadella’s cloud confirmation, Microsoft is helping ex-employees in Finland find jobs, all kinds of bug bounties, and more.

Microsoft has indicated that there will be no more feature updates to WIndows 10 in 2016 and that two updates are coming in 2017; one release is likely tied to a hardware refresh.

Russell shows how to create your first Azure SQL Database, configure a firewall and connect to the database using Visual Studio.

Microsoft has quietly changed the rollback period in Windows 10 that allows you to move to revert to an older build of Windows from 30 to 10 days.

In today’s Ask the Admin, I’ll look at a new feature, coming in next week’s Windows 10 Anniversary Update (AU), that allows Mobile Continuum to connect to the display of any device running Windows 10, without Microsoft’s Display Dock or additional peripherals. In the time since I wrote Windows 10 Continuum: Could Your Next Phone…