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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.

This month Windows 19H2 edges closer to a final build, Citrix releases Managed Desktops based on Windows Virtual Desktop, Windows updates break Visual Basic 6 apps, and Microsoft prepares to disable VBScript in IE11 on Windows 7 and 8.x.

The half-year point has passed meaning that Azure (and Windows/Windows Server) are into a new planning & development cycle.

Although Teams has a PowerShell module, its cmdlets can’t get at some of the interesting information for team objects. But the Graph API reveals that information. Combining the Graph with PowerShell makes it possible to retrieve the information with just a little effort. A working example helps make the point, so here’s a script to report the Teams channels with email addresses.