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Microsoft announced the Files Restore feature for SharePoint Online on April 22. It’s the kind of news we can expect as the SharePoint conference draws near, and it’s good news for Office 365 tenants. Some backup vendors might not be so keen as Files Restore makes it a tad harder for them to sell their backups. Small Office 365 tenants also got the news that the new SharePoint Admin Center is becoming the default. The new portal might even be ready soon.

Microsoft has started rolling out its new G-Suite migration tools to make the process of moving from Google’s to Microsoft’s productivity suite, a lot easier.

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.

Because I heard you missed me, I’m back, this edition of Short Takes looks at Surface Flub 2S, Waas and Windows 7, it’s like a riding a bike, Microsoft makes AI and refuses to sell it to customers, Google introduces a browser ballot, and so much more.

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?

Microsoft’s second-generation Hub is now available and it features a completely redesigned exterior that allows the device to be upgraded with a modular computing unit and can also run on batteries.

Microsoft has added a new feature to Azure Update management giving you the ability to target dynamic groups of VMs. Take a quick tour of Azure Update management and dynamic group targeting.

Microsoft’s April updates for Windows cause performance and authentication issues for some users.

Slack released some integrations for Office (365) on April 9. I took a look and discovered some interesting things about how the Outlook add-in for Slack works (and doesn’t work sometimes). If you use Slack, you’ll probably be interested in a tighter connection between it and Office, but if you’re invested in the Office 365 ecosystem, Teams is a better choice.

In the first part of this series, I look at the basics of Microsoft’s new Windows Virtual Desktop service.

This month Windows is patched for two zero-day flaws, Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 users report that devices with Sophos Antivirus can’t log in after installing KB4493472 and authentication failures to services configured with unconstrained delegation.