Rabia Noureen

Microsoft-owned GitHub has announced the limited public beta release of GitHub Copilot Chat for enterprise customers and organizations. This release brings a context-aware conversational coding assistant into Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code development environments. GitHub launched the chatbot as a part of the Copilot X initiative to extend its code completion tool to more…

Splunk Inc. announced this week a new strategic partnership with Microsoft. The new deal will enable both companies to build Splunk’s enterprise security and observability solutions on Microsoft Azure. Splunk is a popular platform that enables customers to search, analyze, and visualize machine-generated data in real-time. It collects and processes data coming from a wide…

Microsoft unveiled a couple of new additions to the Microsoft 365 ecosystem at its Inspire 2023 conference this week. The company plans to introduce Microsoft 365 Backup and Microsoft 365 Achieve solutions to help enterprise customers to protect and manage large volumes of data. Microsoft 365 Backup is a new service that will let organizations…

Microsoft announced yesterday that it will provide organizations access to expanded cloud logging data at no additional cost to prevent potential cyberattacks. The announcement comes in response to criticism the company faced regarding the lack of security logs for select cloud licenses. Last week, Microsoft confirmed a series of attacks from a Chinese hacking group…

Microsoft has announced the general availability of its Sales Copilot at Inspire 2023 conference. The company is also bringing new AI-powered features to the Dynamics 365 customer insights platform to help organizations enhance customer engagement and sales. Microsoft Sales Copilot is an AI-based digital assistant designed for sales teams. The new service can generate content,…

Microsoft has announced that hotpatch support is now generally available for Windows Server Azure Edition VMs running the Desktop experience. This release enables organizations to patch and install updates to Windows Server virtual machines on Azure without rebooting. The Hotpatch feature accomplishes this goal by applying the patch in-memory code of running processes without restarting…

Microsoft announced this morning the pricing details of its Microsoft 365 Copilot tool alongside a new version of its Bing chatbot for enterprise users. The Microsoft 365 Copilot will be available as an add-on for $30 per user per month for all enterprise customers with Microsoft 365 E3, E5, Business Standard, and Business Premium subscriptions….

Nasuni has announced a new integration with Microsoft Sentinel. This release enables organizations to automatically detect security threats and initiate responses in enterprise environments. Nasuni’s file data platform offers a cloud-native solution to help organizations manage and store their data. The unified platform combines primary file storage, backup, disaster recovery, and file-sharing capabilities. Some key…

Microsoft has announced that the Edge Workspaces feature is now generally available for enterprise customers. The new collaboration experience launched in public preview back in April, and it lets users work together in a shared workspace within the web browser. Microsoft Edge Workspaces allow users to share a set of tabs and favorites with their…

Last week, Microsoft confirmed that Chinese hackers gained unauthorized access to email accounts of U.S. government agencies and other sensitive organizations. On Friday, the company detailed a blog post to explain the cause of the security breach that compromised Exchange Online email services. According to Microsoft’s Threat Intelligence team, the Storm-0558 hacking group abused three…

Microsoft has added support for new system-based alerts in public preview for Windows 365 Enterprise customers. The new feature enables IT admins to keep track of Windows 365 Cloud PCs that are in a grace period. With this release, the Windows 365 IT admin alerts feature triggers an email when a Cloud PC enters the…

Microsoft has introduced restricted management administrative units support in public preview for Microsoft Entra ID. The new role-based access control (RBAC) feature lets organizations allow only select IT admins, security teams, or devices to access specific resources. “Restricted management administrative units allow you to protect specific objects in your tenant from modification by anyone other…