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Microsoft is expanding its Azure, IoT, end Edge services ahead of build with new features and options as the company continues its push deeper into the cloud-computing era.

Microsoft is releasing a Developer Edition of the HoloLens 2 but unlike the first generation device, this SKU won’t save you any money.

Office ProPlus Version 1904 boasts new privacy controls and Microsoft has documented how it thinks about required and optional data collected from users. Office 365 still lacks privacy controls for the server apps. It remains to be seen if customers will be happy and consider that Microsoft has solved the GDPR issues identified in the Dutch DPIA report in November 2018.

This month sees yet more changes to Microsoft’s Windows 10 servicing schedule, problems for users after April’s Patch Tuesday quality update, the new version of Edge released for Insiders, and new minimum disk space requirements for upgrading to the Windows 10 May 2019 Update.

Ahead of Build, a new feature for Azure that may streamline the printing process has been uncovered.

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.