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Aidan shows how to recover a virtual machine using the Azure Portal from a back up of your Azure Resource Manager (ARM) or CSP virtual machine.

On this episode, I cover all of the Microsoft news this week including the road to release, WPC announcements, Windows as a Service, build signoffs, and a lot more.

Because I’m traveling so much I don’t even know where I am anymore, this edition of Short Takes focuses on businesses saving money with Windows 10, Microsoft’s legal victory, Raspberry Pi’s cry for help, a potential UK ban on encryption, and so much more.

Learn how to configure backup of Azure virtual machines using the Recovery Services vault in the Azure Portal.

The European Commission this morning announced a third set of antitrust charges against Google, formally accusing the search giant with abusing its advertising and shopping services.

Russell Smith looks at components of Microsoft’s new Azure Information Protection service, which includes identity-driven security, encryption, information rights management, automatic classification and more.

Microsoft has won an appeal that required it to turn over data stored in an Irish database; a big win for all cloud providers as it protects client information from the U.S. government.

Microsoft has announced a change in strategy for Azure Stack where they will be working with vendors to certify hardware for the platform.

Aidan provides step-by-step directions to download a virtual machine from Microsoft Azure and get it running on a local or on-premises Hyper-V host/cluster.

Office 365 Planner has reached general availability and now it’s time to put it through its paces. I’m happy to say that it more than lives up to my expectations.

Microsoft is bringing a new Skype client to Linux users and they are also making it easier for users with Chromebooks access the messaging platform.

In this article, Russell explains how RDS Session Host deployment in Windows Server 2012 R2 differs from earlier versions of Windows Server and the deployment options available.