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Aidan Finn goes over several announcements Microsoft made regarding Azure virtual machines at the recent Build conference.

Jeff Hicks shares more information on fine tuning the Active Directory Searcher.

Because the stress level has hit Defcon-1, this edition of Short Takes looks at Microsoft’s intelligent edge, Steve Ballmer’s rewriting of history, Skype’s SnapChat jealousy, Paul Allen’s crazy plane, and much more.

Microsoft is making big changes to Skype’s Interface with the hope of attracting more users to the platform with new features targeted at a younger audience.

Aidan Finn walks you through deploying Azure virtual machines with smaller OS disks.

Office 365 Groups now support the addition of Exchange Online mail contacts as external group members. The new feature solves a problem for many tenants but it does not help you to convert old DLs that contain mail contacts.

Before you migrate to a newer version of SharePoint or a different environment, always run a complete data inventory. This crucial step will give you clarity over your migration project and help you save a lot of time and money along the way.

Microsoft has released the latest sharing experience for SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business. Find out why Juan Carlos Gonzalez Martin thinks this version is more intuitive and easy to use.

Aidan Finn shows you how to deploy VHD Sets on Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V.

Russell Smith shows you how to configure Operations Management Suite’s Update Compliance to monitor Windows updates.

The Mobile Planner app is another milestone for the Office 365 Task Management Service.

Continuing this series on Active Directory Searcher with PowerShell, Jeff Hicks looks at managing large environments.