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In my monthly summary, I will summarize all the Azure infrastructure news from April, which appeared to be a month for security announcements.

The new Premium Plans for Azure Function Apps try to address a number of shortcomings inherent to serverless computing.

If your Office 365 tenant has many private Teams, you might run the risk that people create duplicate teams because they don’t know that a team already exists. Teams doesn’t have a separate directory but you can create one with PowerShell and publish the output in Teams. The magic is provided by deep links, which users click to navigate to a team they want to join.

While there’s no doubt that the use of the cloud and containers are rapidly growing, the reality is that server virtualization is and will remain the core technology for running the vast majority of enterprise applications in the foreseeable future.

Need a little extra GPU power inside your container? Here is how you can turn on GPU acceleration in Windows Containers.

Here is how to uninstall and reset Linux distributions installed in Windows 10 using the Windows Subsystem for Linux.

Microsoft’s new tool to assist in cloud migrations can help you, but might be too limited for real world enterprise applications.

While the security and redundancy provided with hybrid cloud setups is clearly documented, it’s important to keep these risk-factors in mind as you design your new environment.

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

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?