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Analysts from both Gartner and IDC reported this week that the PC market declined once again in the second quarter of 2016, by 4.8 percent, with PC makers shipping just over 63 million units.

In this post I will show you how to deploy and configure the Azure Resource Manager (ARM and CSP) network load balancer. The post will cover load balancing Azure virtual machines and creating NAT rules.

If you want better battery life from Windows 10, adopt Edge as your browser after Microsoft releases the Windows 10 Anniversary Update at the end of July 2016, and use Windows Store (UWP) apps where possible.

Microsoft’s WPC 2016 conference is being held this week in Toronto and the event kicked off with a keynote by Satya Nadella who emphasized how Microsoft and its partners are the foundation of productivity.

In this Ask the Admin, Russell Smith shows you how to create AD groups using PowerShell, how to add parameters when creating an AD group using the Windows PowerShell Integrated Scripting Environment (ISE), and then modify (or remove) AD group membership using PowerShell.

On this episode, I cover all of the Microsoft news this week including the road to release, Windows phone upgrade info, WPC, and a few fireworks.

Because I still kind of miss Steve Ballmer, this edition of Short Takes focuses on the mysteries around Kevin Turner’s exit, Microsoft’s cringe-worthy invite to Bay Area hipsters, AV market consolidation, Android malware, and more.

In this post about Azure network security group best practices, Aidan offers tips for creating, configuring, and associating network security groups (NSGs) in Azure Resource Manager or CSP.

In today’s Ask the Admin, I’ll explain how to use Retention Policies in Exchange Server, Exchange Online and Office 365. Hoarding information seems to be a hobby for many of us, and if you’ve ever been an Exchange administrator, you’ll be familiar with the problem of users who are determined to store every last email…

Microsoft is making Power BI publish to the web generally available and Power BI Embedded will reach GA on July 11th; the company is also announcing a preview of Cortana Intelligence with Bing Predicts too.

Kevin Turner’s 11-year run as Chief Operating Officer at Microsoft has come to a close: Citadel Securities announced this morning that Mr. Turner will become its CEO after a brief transition period.

After lots of feedback, Microsoft Azure has added public preview support for backing up and restoring virtual machines that use Premium Storage. This article will explain what that means for you. Background Most people who are new to cloud or hosting assume that any hosted virtual machine will be backed up by default and for…