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Discover how to (remotely and securely) manage your on-premises Hyper- V hosts, including Nano Server, from Azure’s (remote) server management tools on Windows 7, Macs, and even non-Windows tablets.

Aidan Finn shows you how to use a new preview feature in Azure Backup to protect SQL Server databases that are hosted in Azure virtual machines.

This month Microsoft trials a new managed desktop service as part of Microsoft 365 in the US and UK, Windows gets leap second support and a new time protocol, and Windows Update will use machine learning to learn when you’ve gone for a coffee break.

This week, Microsoft is hosting its largest IT Pro conference of the year in Orlando, Florida. If you are not able to attend but still want to watch the keynotes, you can find the live stream after the jump.

Microsoft has announced a new version of Office for on-premises users and it will arrive in the second half of 2018.

Microsoft on Monday announced that SharePoint 2016 IT Preview is now available, as is a cloud hybrid search preview for SharePoint Server 2013 and 2016.

The world of Office 365 is ever-changing. This week my attention was distracted by the inability of the Admin Center to report unlicensed accounts, a Watson dump in an ActiveSync cmdlet, some interesting data about the number of Office 365 users affected by outages as revealed through an API, and more odd entries in the Audit Log. Thankfully Ignite is next week and nothing will happen.

Tony Redmond explores some things he found out or explored during the week, including a solid DLP roadmap for Office 365, how BMC Remedy creates incident tickets from DLP audit events, that Veeam now offers a backup for Exchange Online, how QUADROtech’s ADAM plans to drag public folders into the 21st century, and more.

A review of Microsoft’s first Cybersecurity Summit in 2019.

Microsoft announced a bunch of information about Windows Server 2016 (WS2016) at the Worldwide Partner Conference on July 12th in Toronto including how Microsoft will service, or release new features, to Windows Server 2016 after general availability.