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Learn about how Office 365 manages user and group identities under the hood using Azure Active Directory.

In this PowerShell Problem Solver, Jeff Hicks shows us how to easily find the geographic location of an IP address.

Aidan Finn provides us a detailed look into Microsoft’s latest feature in Windows Server 2016, Storage Spaces Direct (S2D).

Facebook has begun testing publishing news articles directly into the Facebook news feed, starting with iPhone. The goal? To monetize mobile.

Want to know what Microsoft Ignite 2015 was like, but couldn’t make the trip? Editorial Director Jeff James has you covered with his Microsoft Ignite 2015 event wrap-up.

Petri IT Knowledgebase Contributing Editor Jeff Hicks demonstrates how to use PowerShell management at scale to get large, complicated tasks accomplished.

Aidan Finn outlines the new features of Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V that were announced at Microsoft Ignite 2015.

In this final installment in this article series on building a PowerShell ping sweep tool, Jeff Hicks shows us how to easily add a port check to our existing tool.

Petri IT Knowledgebase Contributing Editor Jeff Hicks does some keyword analysis on the Ignite session catalog and comes up with some interesting data.

Russell Smith discusses how two-factor authentication will be made easier with Microsoft Passport in Windows 10.

Because Microsoft just held Build 2015 and Ignite 2015 back to back and I’m still not done traveling, this week’s other news includes conflicting rumors about Microsoft’s interest in buying Salesforce, how Windows as a service will impact Patch Tuesday, the higher cost of Office 365, Uber bids for Nokia’s HERE business, NSA data collection…

At its Ignite 2015 conference this week in Chicago, much of the talk centered on Azure and Office 365, coming on-premises server products, device management, and even cross-platform compatibility. But I was most interested in how Microsoft would present Windows 10 on the eve of its initial release. Did the software giant make a compelling…