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Because my Surface hibernated and it won’t wake up, this edition of Short Takes looks at this week’s curiously vague Microsoft layoffs, a new timeline for a Windows 10 feature, OneDrive and Skype controversies, and much more.

Shane Young explains how Power BI interacts with SharePoint Online lists to build cool reports and display those reports on SharePoint.

Recent developments show that a fully-populated Azure Active Directory is considered by Microsoft to be a core part of the overall Office 365 “experience.” Yet many tenants have partly-populated directories. Is that a problem? Or might it be a future problem?

Paul Robichaux discusses how to reduce information leakage by using Azure Information Protection and Windows Information Protection.

Microsoft has announced today that they are cutting back on their headcount as they reorganize the company’s sales structure as well as a few other areas inside the Redmond walls.

Jasper Oosterveld discusses a world moving toward a modern workplace for collaboration tools, personalized dashboards, and communication portals.

Aidan Finn explains how to orchestrate and order the failover of virtual machines in a Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V cluster using Cluster Group Sets.

Moving from on-premises to the cloud can be a challenge but there is software available that can help you map out what instances you will need for each type of workload.

Missy Januszko explores the uses of $MyInvocation.

Gartner’s recent SWOT analysis of Office 365 contains some interesting thoughts and observations. I do not agree with them all because I think some of their thinking is a little dated, but it is always interesting to read what Gartner is whispering into the ears of their customers.

Starting in August, Microsoft will be expanding its FastTrack service for those who are moving to Azure but there are several requirements you must meet to be eligible.

For the upcoming fiscal year, Microsoft is expected to re-org the sales team and as part of that change, layoffs are expected.