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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.

How should your company select an Azure virtual machine? Aidan Finn lays out what the series and preset sizes really mean and offers guidelines for getting the most for your budget.

Microsoft has announced at WPC that for enterprise customers, starting this fall, Windows 10 will cost $7 per month per user.

Last month, Microsoft quietly unveiled a Surface Membership plan that allows small businesses to buy the firm’s devices on a monthly payment plan. Today, at its Worldwide Partner Conference, Microsoft offered a similar plan to its partners, allowing them to sell Surface as a service.

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.