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Microsoft’s free Azure Backup Server (MABS) is a free on-premises backup server that will protect Microsoft workloads, such as Hyper-V, SQL Server, SharePoint, and more, by performing disk-to-disk-to-cloud backup.

Microsoft is expanding its newly announced Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection preview program to include more companies, and you can sign up now to test it out.

There has always been a challenge to effectively manage domain consolidation efforts within the enterprise. Throughout the years, the way that we could choose to tackle remote machines has evolved, but the net result is that remote machines still pose a unique challenge and threat for domain consolidation projects.

Microsoft’s productivity future is based heavily on the fact that corporations are addicted to Excel, and there is not a compelling alternative.

In this Ask the Admin, Russell Smith shows us how to copy an existing site in SharePoint Online.

Because the PC market is shrinking and I feel fine, this edition of Short Takes focuses on Google’s fear of Microsoft smart phones, Windows 10 Mobile is always behind, Microsoft expanding its Ireland-based datacenters, Facebook is accused of liberal bias, and Apple has invested $1 billion in a Chinese Uber competitor.

PowerShell expert Jeff Hicks wraps up his lesson on managing Active Directory OUs with PowerShell by showing you how to move and delete them.

Learn this easy tip on how to help identify phishing attacks in your organization by implementing conditional formatting in Outlook.

PowerShell Problem Solver Jeff Hicks demonstrates better techniques for get user account details from members of an Active Directory group.

Microsoft has announced the general availability of two new featurs for Azure: SQL database elastic pools and a partnership with Akamai for Azure CDN.

Regulators from the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and Federal Communications Commission (FCC) are working jointly to discover more about how mobile device makers are patching security vulnerabilities. And they’ve reached out to device makers big and small to find out more.

This article will show you three designs, each building on the other, for a demilitarized zone (DMZ) or perimeter network for Internet facing n-tier applications based on Azure virtual machines and networking.