Windows Server 2016 was designed specifically with those challenges in mind. A new white paper details the benefits of running the operating system in hybrid environments — from built-in security to more efficient app development.

Head over to the Hybrid Cloud Blog to learn more and download the paper.

Deborah Bach
Microsoft News Center Staff

Intune, a cloud-based enterprise mobility management service, has moved to the Azure portal, allowing users to manage all Intune capabilities and leverage all of Azure Active Directory seamlessly in one consolidated, simplified experience.

Additionally, a new Conditional Access administrative experience in Azure is also generally available. The functionality allows information technology teams to ensure that only appropriately authenticated and validated users — from compliant devices and approved apps, and under the right conditions — have access to companies’ data.

Head over to the Enterprise Mobility and Security Blog to learn more.

Deborah Bach
Microsoft News Center Staff

The new episode of “This Week on Windows” highlights what’s new in the Windows Store, from “Beauty and the Beast” to “Yooka-Laylee,” and covers new features for organizing your Start menu in Windows 10. You’ll also learn how to follow Xbox news from E3 2017 next week.

To learn more and see what else is new in the Windows Store, check out the video and go to the Windows Blog.

Vanessa Ho
Microsoft News Center Staff

The cloud offers universal accessibility, flexibility and near limitless scale over on-premises technology, with dramatic total-cost-of-ownership savings, Bergeson says. “With a cloud solution, grant recipients and intermediaries are empowered to seamlessly update their progress and report to their funders anytime, anywhere, on any device. Moreover, centralizing grant and contract processes in the cloud enhances efficiency, and enables funders, recipients, sub-recipients and intermediaries to have access to the same reporting data.”

To learn more, visit the Microsoft in Government blog.

Suzanne Choney
Microsoft News Center Staff

Azure customers already benefit from Storage Service Encryption for Azure Blob and File Storage using Microsoft managed keys.

To learn more, visit the Microsoft Azure Blog.

Suzanne Choney
Microsoft News Center Staff

Once closed, the acquisition will build on the successful work Microsoft is already doing to help commercial Windows 10 customers detect, investigate and respond to advanced attacks on their networks with Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection. Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection continues to prove its value in detecting high-profile security cases such as zero-day attacks, ransomware and other advanced cyberthreats.

To learn more, read the press release.

Suzanne Choney
Microsoft News Center Staff

Buy the movie for $19.99 in high definition (HD), or $14.99 in standard definition (SD). Or, rent it for $5.99 in HD, or $4.99 in SD.

Also, keep up with what’s hot, new and trending in the Windows Store on Twitter and Facebook.

Suzanne Choney
Microsoft News Center Staff

Start with “Crosswords,” featuring multiple board sizes, difficulties and lots of options so you can play crosswords exactly the way you want. Then test your skills at “Wordament” to find as many words as you can in a 4-by-4 grid of letter tiles. You can play on your own or against thousands of players at once. “Jumble” gives you a rack of tiles from which you create as many words as you can using the given letters.

With all three, you’ll get play modes with multiple adventure maps for earning stars to unlock more puzzles — and, if you’re good, to reach the treasure at the end of each map. Daily Challenges help you earn special badges, and Xbox Live integration lets you earn achievements and compete with friends. 

Get Microsoft Ultimate Word Games, for free (with options for in-app purchases) from the Windows Store.

Also, keep up with what’s hot, new and trending in the Windows Store on Twitter and Facebook.

Suzanne Choney
Microsoft News Center Staff

Microsoft increased its financial support for Pride this year and is sponsoring events in 29 cities from Charlotte to Copenhagen, Toronto to Tokyo. Last year, about 2,500 Microsoft employees participated in Pride parades and other events in 23 cities worldwide that drew an estimated 10 million attendees.

“Pride is an opportunity for LGBT-plus people to be out and visible and see that support,” said Alex Mullans, Pride director for GLEAM, Microsoft’s LGBT+ employee resource group. “In the past couple of years, we’ve really expanded to this global celebration we have now.”

While Microsoft’s involvement in global Pride celebrations is relatively recent, its support for the LGBT+ community goes back decades. Microsoft was one of the first companies worldwide to offer employee benefits to same-sex domestic partners and one of the first to include sexual orientation in its corporate non-discrimination policy.

Also, for the 12^th consecutive year, Microsoft scored a perfect 100 on the 2017 Human Rights Campaign Foundation’s Corporate Equality Index, which ranks U.S. companies for their corporate policies and practices impacting LGBT+ employees.

Read the full story on Microsoft News Center.

Deborah Bach
Microsoft News Center Staff

Now, business users can use Azure Analysis Services without the need to build anything, using a new sample model based on the Adventure Works Internet Sales database, Caplan says.

“With Azure Analysis Services, a BI professional can create a semantic model over the raw data and share it with business users so that all they need to do is connect to the model from any BI tool and immediately explore the data and gain insights,” he writes.

To learn more, visit the Microsoft Azure Blog.

Suzanne Choney
Microsoft News Center Staff