Learn about the essential elements for building a DR that works for your environment and all types of sceanrios.

Because I’m about to be gonged again, this edition of Short Takes looks at Microsoft’s market cap, the Fall Creators Update, Microsoft’s iffy security disclosure history, and much more.

The Invoke is finally here but is Cortana inside a smart speaker the next great digital assistant or is it playing catchup?

Aidan Finn explains how you can make better use of the Azure Portal by using the features that we overlook.

OWA now boasts a useful mailbox option, which is helpful if you feel that you need to remove some old and lingering email. The funny thing is that Microsoft doesn’t seem to have told anyone about the feature – or my search-karma is failing me in finding any information about it.

Microsoft announced several improvements to its cloud-based disaster recovery service, Azure Site Recovery at Ignite 2017.

In this Ask the Admin, Russell Smith looks at Microsoft SQL Server 2017 being available for the first time on Windows, Linux, and Docker and what this means for DevOps and database admins.

Microsoft has announced a new 15in Surface Book and they have also overhauled the internals of the 13in model too.

Microsoft has updated its Surface Book family to include updated internals like a quad-core processor and also a new 15in model.

Based on user feedback and a horrible year of change management missteps, Microsoft is changing the way it handles major updates for Office 365. The plan seems like it might work and let’s hope that it does. No one wants to experience the same kind of update surprises we have seen in 2017.

Amazon and Microsoft recently announced Gluon, a new interface for open-source deep learning that enables developers to quickly and easily build efficient machine learning models.

As the Surface Studio comes up on its one year announcement anniversary, it’s time to take a look back at using the device over a long period of time to see how it stands up today.

I have known about Azure File Sync for quite a while under NDA and have been itching to start talking about it. It’s a killer service that an incredible number of businesses could benefit from.