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MC688930 – Updated April 12, 2024: Microsoft is excited to announce that Phase 2 of app centric management roll out is scheduled to begin in May 2024. This phase will be available to all tenants and can be initiated at the admin’s discretion. What is in phase 2? Detailed documentation for the migration process will…

MC770792 – In Microsoft Teams, Microsoft has introduced a new Tenant Federation setting to block all subdomains of domains in the federation Block list. If your organization is using a Block list to protect your users from malicious or other domains, you should enable this new setting to also protect users from all related subdomains…

MC764456 – You can hold a Microsoft Teams meeting that requires everyone’s consent in order to be transcribed. For tenants or user groups who turned on the policy get recording and transcription consent, all meetings will require explicit consent from participants when the transcription is started.  This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 389368 When…

The buzz around Microsoft Copilot has been well-documented. Since its inception, this intelligent AI assistant tool has offered users access to a wealth of information and resources to help them work more efficiently and effectively. It’s certainly part and parcel of Microsoft’s continued excellence in responsible AI integration across its estate. In this article, I’ll outline…

MC712143 – Updated March 20, 2024: Microsoft has updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience. For Microsoft Entra and Microsoft Teams, Microsoft is introducing two new resource-specific consent settings (RSC) for teams and chats to enhance secure app adoption. These settings will affect Chat RSC and Team RSC for apps in Microsoft…

Backup and replication are common data protection concepts, but they serve different purposes. Learn more about their differences and how they can benefit your data management strategy, especially how the backup vs replication argument relates to Active Directory (AD) and protecting it. What are backup and replication? Although backup and replication are both methods of…

Microsoft has recently released a slew of updates aimed at enhancing the billing experience for its commercial customers. These updates include billing accounts and profiles, an updated invoice format, flexible billing frequencies, and a new cancellation policy. The Microsoft Customer Agreement (MCA) is a legal contract between Microsoft and its customers. It’s a digital agreement…

Russell Smith shows us how to determine which Group Policy settings are actually being applied to devices using the Group Policy Results Wizard.

This article deals with the mechanism of deploying and verifying GPO deployment. It will not deal in the GPO itself and the settings inside it (these settings and configurations will be discussed in different articles). Note that this article was written and contributed to the site by Amir Meron. Group Policy is a one of…

Group Policy is an infrastructure feature in Active Directory that allows IT pros to manage their users’ Windows environments and servers. In this article, I will explain in detail what is Group Policy, what is a Group Policy Object (GPO), and how to adjust the policy settings to meet your security needs and compliance requirements….