Rabia Noureen

Microsoft is investigating a new bug that’s currently removing application shortcuts from the Taskbar and Start Menu on Windows PCs. The company has acknowledged that the problem affects enterprise customers using Microsoft Defender for Endpoint to block malware attacks. In a Reddit thread, several enterprise admins reported that a false positive triggered by a buggy…

Microsoft has announced some new features added to its Windows Autopatch service this month. Windows Autopatch is a cloud-based tool that enables organizations to automate patch management for Windows 10, Windows 11, Microsoft Teams, Edge, and other Microsoft 365 services. For starters, Microsoft announced that FastTrack support is now available to help enterprise customers adopt…

Microsoft has released some much-anticipated updates for Microsoft Planner this week. The company announced that its popular task management tool is getting support for a new recurring tasks feature and Grid view. The recurring tasks feature should be a welcome addition for people who need to create dedicated tasks for daily scrum meetings, weekly progress…

Microsoft has announced that it’s bringing Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) support to its Azure Active Directory services. The company plans to roll out IPv6 support to all enterprise customers in a staggered manner on March 31. With this release, users will be able to access Azure Active Directory (AD) services through IPv6, IPv4, or…

Microsoft has announced its plans to launch a new Microsoft 365 Basic tier later this month. The affordable plan costs $1.99 per month (or $19.99 per year), and includes 100GB of OneDrive cloud storage as well as an ad-free experience in the Outlook web app, with additional security features to follow later this year. Microsoft…

Last month, Microsoft launched a new Teams Premium plan in preview as an add-on for commercial customers. Now, the company has quietly announced that it’s moving some existing features available for Microsoft 365 subscribers to the costly Premium edition (via The Register). Microsoft first unveiled its Teams Premium add-on at its Ignite 2022 conference in…

Microsoft has released yesterday the January 2023 Security Updates (SUs) for all supported versions of the Exchange Server. The latest updates aim to address critical security vulnerabilities that could allow attackers to gain system privileges in Exchange Server 2013, 2016, and 2019. Microsoft also highlighted that the January 2023 updates for Exchange Server should improve…

Microsoft is finally ending support for Windows 7 Extended Security Updates (ESUs) and Windows 8.1. This means that the company will no longer provide software updates and technical assistance to PCs running legacy versions of Windows operating systems. Microsoft announced the end of mainstream support of Windows 7 in January 2020. However, the company introduced…

Microsoft has announced a handful of new features across Microsoft Teams, Viva, and other Microsoft 365 apps. The new solutions are designed to help retailers and frontline workers streamline operations, improve communication, and boost security for shared devices. First off, Microsoft has released new updates to improve the Walkie-Talkie feature in Microsoft Teams. The prompt…

Microsoft has announced the acquisition of Fungible, a start-up selling composable disaggregated infrastructure solutions for data centers. The company plans to use the Fungible technology and team to boost the Microsoft Azure cloud infrastructure. Fungible launched its data processing unit (DPU) back in 2016 to enhance the efficiency of data-centric computations within server nodes in…

Microsoft is reportedly planning to integrate OpenAI’s ChatGPT technology into its Office applications. A new report from The Information suggests that the new AI-powered features will allow users to automatically generate text with natural language prompts in Outlook, Word, and PowerPoint. OpenAI first made its ChatGPT tool available for public testing back in November 2021….

Amazon Web Services announced yesterday that Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) can now encrypt all new objects by default. The company says that S3 can automatically apply server-side encryption (SSE-S3) for each new object without any performance degradation. Amazon Simple Storage Service (also known as Amazon S3) is a web-based cloud storage service. It’s…