Google opened a new data region in Finland as the company works to grab more cloud market share.

In this month’s Patch Tuesday, Microsoft released a disabled-by-default patch for Spectre 4, Adobe plugs a zero-day Flash vulnerability that can be exploited via Excel, and there are fixes for DNS, black screens, and Cortana.

Microsoft has updated the Hybrid Configuration Wizard (HCW) to transfer some Exchange on-premises configuration settings. That’s nice, but possibly too little and too late to make any real difference. Office 365 has moved on, most people who wanted to configure hybrid connections are now in the cloud, and the settings aren’t all that exciting.

Microsoft recently shared information on its efforts to develop an undersea distributed data center solution to power The Cloud in the future.

Microsoft is releasing an update to the way a Planner Plan can be integrated in a modern SharePoint Online (SPO) site. This update allows to easily add a Planner Plan as a full-page app in a modern SPO site.

In this Ask the Admin, I look at Spectre Variant 4 and whether it will affect performance as its distributed over the coming weeks.

Because I do not like it Sam-I-Am, this week’s edition of Short Takes looks at Windows 10 version 1803 out in the wild, Microsoft’s coming Office UI change, new Surface PCs, and much, much more.

The Office 365 Audit Log holds lots of interesting information about how people share information. In this article, we explore how to use the audit log records to discover the document sharing habits of users, including the documents shared with guest users and people outside the tenant.

A free version of Microsoft Teams is still in development and new documentation suggests its release will happen in the near future.

Aidan Finn shows you how to enforce or audit governance to Azure subscriptions or resource groups using Azure Policy.

In this Ask the Admin, I’ll explain how to resolve an RDP error that might appear after the May 2018 cumulative updates.

Microsoft’s upcoming Windows Server 2019 release improves its support for hybrid cloud scenarios.

Microsoft is starting to roll out significant UI changes to Office applications with updates to the ribbon, search, and new icons.