Cloud

In this post I’ll provide a brief overview of IFTTT and Zapier and Microsoft’s contribution to the user-friendly, user-powered workflow services tool, Microsoft Flow.

Always Encrypted is a feature of SQL Server 2016 that Microsoft released in Azure SQL Database in June 2016. Russell describes what Always Encrypted technology is and how it works with Azure SQL Database.

In today’s Ask the Admin, I’ll look at why you might need to back up data stored in the cloud and two options for backing up Office 365.

Russell shows how to create an Azure Automation account, upload and compile a DSC configuration, and on board an Azure VM.

Learn how to export resource groups (RGs) as Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates using JSON, then deploy that resource group using your JSON template.

Learn how to get started with GitHub for Windows. We’ll install it, add accounts, clone a repository, commit changes and sync repositories.

Russell provides a closer look at the recently released Azure Usage and Billing Portal.

Aidan provides an overview of Microsoft’s cloud-based security solutions: Advanced Threat Analytics (ATA), Microsoft Cloud App Security, Azure Rights Management Services (RMS), Azure Information Protection, Microsoft Online Advanced Threat Protection (ATP), and Azure Security Center (ASC).

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.

In today’s Ask the Admin, I’ll explain how to use Retention Policies in Exchange Server, Exchange Online and Office 365. Hoarding information seems to be a hobby for many of us, and if you’ve ever been an Exchange administrator, you’ll be familiar with the problem of users who are determined to store every last email…