Rabia Noureen

Microsoft has released an update that blocks the use of unmanaged Azure AD accounts in organizations. The company has provided a set of tools to help IT admins find existing unmanaged accounts and reset their redemption status. In 2016, Microsoft introduced a self-service sign-up feature that allowed external users to sign up as guest members…

Microsoft has announced the release of version 1.71 of its Visual Studio Code editor. The latest update brings some improvements for the merger editor, UI changes, and support for snap layouts on Windows 11. With this release, developers can now click the “Open in Merge Editor” button to quickly switch between the text and merge…

Microsoft is once again notifying customers that it will finally disable basic authentication support in Exchange Online starting October 1, 2022. The company is also giving organizations an option to pause the deprecation of select email connection protocols until the end of this year. In 2019, Microsoft first announced its plans to retire basic authentication…

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced the launch of a new data center in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Over the next 15 years, the company plans to invest around $5 billion in the country to support business growth and accelerate innovation. AWS opened its first Middle East cloud region in Bahrain in July 2019….

Microsoft’s Azure Managed Grafana service that launched in preview back in April is now generally available for enterprise customers. The new data visualization solution brings together charts, alerts, and logs that enable IT admins to analyze application and infrastructure telemetry data in a single dashboard. Grafana is an open-source platform that lets organizations unify, collect,…

Microsoft has acknowledged that customers may experience domain name system (DNS) issues while accessing some Azure cloud services. The company confirmed that the problem is specifically affecting users running Canonical Ubuntu 18.04 on Azure virtual machines (VMs). According to Microsoft, the Azure outage started at around 2 AM ET on August 30. It impacted several…

Microsoft Teams is getting a new update that will enable IT admins to deploy and manage teams at scale. Microsoft has announced in a message on the Microsoft 365 admin center that administrators will be able to create up to 500 teams with built-in or custom templates via Teams PowerShell cmdlet. Specifically, Microsoft Teams will…

Microsoft launched a preview of Arm support on Azure virtual machines (VMs) in April this year. Now, the company has announced that the Ampere Altra Arm-powered Azure VMs would become generally available on September 1. Microsoft claims that the Arm-based virtual machines deliver up to 50 percent better performance than similar instances running on x86…

In this article, we’ll explain how to install Grammarly for Word and Outlook and why it can be a great writing assistant for both students and professional writers. Grammarly is a popular AI-powered writing assistant that allows users to check spelling, punctuation, grammar, clarity, and writing style in their documents. How to install Grammarly for…

Microsoft has started rolling out a new update for Outlook for Windows. The latest release brings a new integration with the Microsoft To Do service, allowing users to access their tasks and lists right from their Outlook app. Microsoft To Do is a cloud-based task management service that lets users stay organized and manage their…

Microsoft has announced some important changes to its restrictive software licensing policies that should reduce the price of running Microsoft software on non-Azure clouds. The new licensing terms, which will go into effect on October 1, 2022, aim to address complaints from rival European cloud providers about Microsoft’s anti-competitive tactics. “We recognize the importance of…

Last year, Microsoft released two new Windows 365 Endpoint analytics reports in preview to help IT admins proactively monitor their Cloud PCs. Now, the company has announced that the Resource performance and Remoting connection reports are generally available for organizations. “Resource performance and Remoting connection give admins rich, proactive, and out-of-the-box analytics on key performance…