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Microsoft announced a handful of announcements for its cloud data platform, which include Azure SQL Data Warehouse, SQL Server 2016, and Power BI.

Learn about Microsoft’s new tool for pricing Azure virtual machines and common issues that are associated with pricing VMs.

Michael Simmons shows us why PowerShell profiles are useful and provides three great examples of how to use them in your everyday work.

Aidan Finn shares his experience on how he almost lost his production machine data and reviews whether Azure Backup for Virtual Machine works in the event of data loss.

PowerShell MVP Jeff Hicks gives us an introduction to parallel PowerShell processing for better performance for tasks that scale.

PowerShell MVP Jeff Hicks shows us how we can create our own PowerShell command.

Aidan Finn shows us how to enable distributed BranchCache on a Microsoft Azure file server.

Regulators from the European Commission are requiring Google to make sweeping changes to its Search service due to ongoing violations of EU antitrust laws.

Peter De Tender outlines new mobile device management (MDM) features that are coming to Microsoft’s Enterprise Mobility Suite.

Learn how you can improve file server performance in Azure without adding any additional hardware or virtual machines by using Windows BranchCache.

Because it’s only 40 days until Microsoft launches Windows 10, this week’s other news includes Dell pushing old PCs with a new OS, who won E3, and more.

Aidan Finn shows you what you need to know about creating new user accounts in Azure Active Directory and how to give them administrator rights.