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Lots of hot air and fuss resulted when Microsoft confirmed on the Teams UserVoice site that they are actively working on a Teams client for Linux. Many Office 365 tenants will be bemused at the attention this topic received, but competition with Slack and the need to drive faster adoption in Teams deployments are compelling reasons for Microsoft to do this work. We can only hope that the project results in better Teams clients all round.

Microsoft has gradually been transforming itself into a cloud and security company over the last few years. Now in public preview, Azure Sentinel brings many of the security features Microsoft uses to secure its own cloud environments to organizations that need to collect data from on-premise systems and cloud apps.

In the final part of this series, I’ll show you how to connect to a virtual machine or app in a Windows Virtual Desktop host pool.

Because summer ends when I say it ends, this edition of Short Takes looks at Slack and its inability to turn a profit, Microsoft testing 5G game streaming in Korea, deep fake videos, mega-yachts, and Window 10 update quality, and so much more.

If you are looking to improve the search functionality of your SharePoint site, this is the tool you need.

The serverless offering for Azure SQL Server has the best pricing model for databases that see sporadic usage, but there are some caveats.

A self-service migration process to move content from the Office 365 Video portal to Microsoft Stream is now rolling out. The wizard-driven process is easy and efficient and doesn’t have too many problems. In fact, the biggest issue facing Office 365 tenants might be finding the time to review all the migrated content before the go live date for Stream comes around.

Microsoft is all-in on the cloud and will let nothing get in the way of helping customers move to Azure. While the company has offered migration tools in the past, announced today, the company is acquiring Movere. Movere is a tool that provides discovery, assessment, optimization, and transformation of data to make it significantly easier…

While it is easy to grasp the basic idea of how containers work and how they differ from virtual machines (VM), understanding container images and layers is a bit more complicated.

Looking to install the latest version of Powershell? Here’s the tutorial to install the latest version of the platform.

With August now behind us, here are the important announcement this month that relate to SharePoint.

For Office 365 customers this month, updates rolled out for Flow, PowerApps, Power BI, SharePoint, Teams, and even Excel.