Cloud Computing

Because I’m traveling so much I don’t even know where I am anymore, this edition of Short Takes focuses on businesses saving money with Windows 10, Microsoft’s legal victory, Raspberry Pi’s cry for help, a potential UK ban on encryption, and so much more.

The European Commission this morning announced a third set of antitrust charges against Google, formally accusing the search giant with abusing its advertising and shopping services.

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 this post I will show you how to deploy and configure the Azure Resource Manager (ARM and CSP) network load balancer. The post will cover load balancing Azure virtual machines and creating NAT rules.

Because I still kind of miss Steve Ballmer, this edition of Short Takes focuses on the mysteries around Kevin Turner’s exit, Microsoft’s cringe-worthy invite to Bay Area hipsters, AV market consolidation, Android malware, and more.

In this post about Azure network security group best practices, Aidan offers tips for creating, configuring, and associating network security groups (NSGs) in Azure Resource Manager or CSP.

Kevin Turner’s 11-year run as Chief Operating Officer at Microsoft has come to a close: Citadel Securities announced this morning that Mr. Turner will become its CEO after a brief transition period.

After lots of feedback, Microsoft Azure has added public preview support for backing up and restoring virtual machines that use Premium Storage. This article will explain what that means for you. Background Most people who are new to cloud or hosting assume that any hosted virtual machine will be backed up by default and for…

Microsoft recently announced that Azure RemoteApp can be used with Azure AD Domain Services (still in preview) for domain authentication, without running domain controllers as virtual machines in Azure.

In today’s Ask the Admin, I’ll kill two birds with one stone by showing you how to enable secure PowerShell Remoting in Azure virtual machines (VMs) and on-premises servers running Windows Server 2012 R2.