Because I heard you missed me, I’m back, this edition of Short Takes looks at Surface Flub 2S, Waas and Windows 7, it’s like a riding a bike, Microsoft makes AI and refuses to sell it to customers, Google introduces a browser ballot, and so much more.

In the second part of this series, I show you how to create a Windows Virtual Desktop tenant.

Our next MJFChat, scheduled for Monday, April 29, is between me and Brad Sams, the Executive Editor of Petri.com. The general topic of our chat is Windows 'Lite,' Microsoft's latest attempt to combat Chrome OS. Make sure to submit your best questions ahead of our chat here in the forums.

The Azure Information Protection team recently published an interesting post about making a "cloud exit." In other words, how to move your encrypted data out of a cloud service like Office 365. As it turns out, this is feasible if you plan. But how many organizations have even thought about how they might decrypt protected content?

On this edition of the Enterprise Dish with Aaron Suzuki, we dive into the latest patches impacting Windows, how Microsoft is once again changing the cadence of Windows 10 updates, and a few predictions about 19H2.

Microsoft's second-generation Hub is now available and it features a completely redesigned exterior that allows the device to be upgraded with a modular computing unit and can also run on batteries.

Microsoft has added a new feature to Azure Update management giving you the ability to target dynamic groups of VMs. Take a quick tour of Azure Update management and dynamic group targeting.

Our next MJFChat, scheduled for Monday, April 15, is between me and Steve Mordue, CEO of Forceworks Global and a Microsoft Business Applications MVP. We'll be talking all about Microsoft's Power Platform.

Microsoft’s April updates for Windows cause performance and authentication issues for some users.

Slack released some integrations for Office (365) on April 9. I took a look and discovered some interesting things about how the Outlook add-in for Slack works (and doesn't work sometimes). If you use Slack, you'll probably be interested in a tighter connection between it and Office, but if you're invested in the Office 365 ecosystem, Teams is a better choice.

In the first part of this series, I look at the basics of Microsoft’s new Windows Virtual Desktop service.

This month Windows is patched for two zero-day flaws, Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 users report that devices with Sophos Antivirus can’t log in after installing KB4493472 and authentication failures to services configured with unconstrained delegation.

Google announces a new Managed Service for Microsoft Active Directory that should give customers more options about which cloud service fits their needs.

Azure's Front Door service can bring availability and performance improvements to applications and services deployed anywhere on the Internet.

Microsoft Teams supports Office 365 Data Loss Prevention (DLP) policies, which means that you can check for the sharing of sensitive data like credit card or passport numbers in personal chats or channel conversations. Quite why someone would want to share their credit card number with someone else in a chat is beyond me, but there's no accounting for human taste.