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If you are moving SQL database instances into Azure, you’ll want to look at the updated Database Migration Assistant from Microsoft. The assistant can move your data, and give you an assessment of potential issues.

In today’s Ask the Admin, I’ll show you how to install Windows software in bulk using package manager Chocolatey.

After seeing a tweet about a site that could return the tenant identifier for any Azure or Office 365 tenant, I was a tad suspicious. After all, this data should be private – or so you’d think. In fact, the WhatIsMyTenantId.com site simply takes records available to enable OAuth 2.0 sign-ins and extracts the tenant identifier from their content. It’s an easy way to get hold of tenant identifiers.

Looking to reinstall Windows 10 quickly and easily using the ‘Reset this PC’ feature? This is how you can do that.

This week, Microsoft is in Atlanta where the company is hosting its Business Application Summit. At the event, the company is announcing three significant updates to its Power Platform that will give users new tools and more advanced features.

Microsoft has announced a new set of features for Power Apps, here’s what you need to know from today’s Business Application Summit.

These are the most important new features in the Windows 10 May 2019 Update that you need to know about.

In today’s Ask the Admin, I explain how Microsoft’s new terminal software for Windows 10 improves on the existing console.

Microsoft says that new Yammer networks can have their messages stored in the European Union instead of the U.S. That sounds good, until you understand the downside that Yammer loses a lot of its external collaboration capabilities. Given this, it’s likely that some existing EU-based Office 365 tenants who use Yammer will be happy to have their messages stay in the U.S.

You can now use Powershell with Azure Functions 2.0. This article provides a quick example using Visual Studio Code and the Azure Functions extension, which makes authoring and deployment easy.

You can easily rename a team by giving it a new display name, or do the same thing to a channel. But Teams and SharePoint Online have the kind of relationship that’s based on tight connections, so renaming team or channel names leaves SharePoint untouched. Site URLs remain unchanged and if you try and fix up the folder names for channels, you can end up with a real mess.

This month’s news roundup includes important announcements made at Microsoft’s Build conference in Seattle, and the general availability of Windows Server 2019 version 1903 and the Windows 10 May 2019 Update.