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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.

PowerApps, Slack, and G-Suite migration tools; this month was filled with new Office 365 updates that you need to know about.

For SharePoint fans, this month brings improved online teams restore features, sticky headers, and PNP makes the platform prettier.

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.

Microsoft and VMware are bringing Microsoft 365 and Workspace One closer together with new integrations.

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.

Because it’s that time of the quarter again, this edition of Short Takes looks at Microsoft’s most recent quarterly earnings.

Microsoft is increasing the minimum storage requirement for Windows 10 feature updates but if this impacts your environment, you have more than a year to find a solution.

Microsoft released the generally available (1.0) version of the Teams PowerShell module on April 24. The Get-Team cmdlet receives a big makeover (and slowdown), but overall the module is solid and you shouldn’t need to make too many changes to scripts.

Microsoft has released earnings for its third quarter, calendar first quarter, with revenues of $30.6 billion with a Net Income of $8.8 billion. During the period, the company returned $7.4 billion to shareholders in the form of share repurchases and dividends.