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Rabia has a master's degree in Software Engineering and she has years of experience writing professionally about Microsoft products and other technologies. Rabia has also written for OnMSFT.com as well as Windows Report. She is always up to date on the latest trends in the IT Industry and has done extensive research in the data science industry.

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Microsoft Defender for Endpoint Adds Support for Android Enterprise COPE devices

Last Update: Aug 30, 2023

Microsoft has launched its Defender for Endpoint solution on Android Enterprise (AE) company-owned personally enabled (COPE) devices. The company says that organizations can deploy this update with Microsoft Intune. Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is an enterprise endpoint security solution that helps to protect businesses from advanced threats. With this release, Android Enterprise COPE devices can…

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Microsoft SharePoint

Microsoft Moves SharePoint Server Subscription Edition to Bi-Annual Release Schedule

Microsoft announced a major change to how it delivers new releases of SharePoint Server Subscription Edition. Indeed, Microsoft will now switch to a biannual release schedule that will allow the company to release new feature updates twice a year. Microsoft launched SharePoint Server Subscription Edition in July last year. It’s an on-premises version of SharePoint…

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Microsoft Teams Adds Support for Scheduling Chat Messages

Microsoft Teams is getting a new schedule send feature that allows users to choose a specific time to send a chat message. The feature was spotted by Petri Jämsen, a Microsoft 365 consultant, and it’s rolling out gradually in public preview for the Teams desktop and web apps. First announced at Ignite 2021, the schedule…

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Microsoft Teams

Microsoft: Token-Mining Vulnerability in Teams is Not Critical to Fix

Last Update: Nov 19, 2024

Security researchers have recently identified a vulnerability in the Microsoft Teams desktop app. The security flaw could allow attackers to access authentication tokens and accounts with multi-factor authentication (MFA) enabled. According to the cybersecurity company Vectra, Microsoft Teams stores user authentication tokens in plain text on the device. It would allow threat actors with local…

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Microsoft to End Windows 10 version 21H1 Support in December

Last Update: Jun 16, 2023

Windows 10 version 21H1, also known as the Windows 10 May 2021 Update, will reach end of support in three months. The company is reminding customers that it will stop providing support to all editions of Windows 10 version 21H1 on December 13, and it will no longer receive security patches after that date. Microsoft…

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Windows 10

Microsoft Introduces New Group Policy to Control IE Retirement

Microsoft has introduced a new Group Policy that should make it easier to control the Internet Explorer (IE) retirement process in enterprise environments. The “Disable IE Policy” configuration lets IT admins choose when to permanently disable IE for all end users instead of waiting for the gradual rollout. Back in June, Microsoft announced the long-awaited…

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Microsoft Teams

Microsoft Teams Gets New Remixed Ringtone for Video Calls

Last Update: Jun 16, 2023

Microsoft has released a remixed version of its default Teams ringtone, which is now available for all desktop, web, and mobile users. The company has partnered with a popular TikTok influencer “Calum Newton” (also known as CandyMoore.mp3), to create the remixed ringtone for Microsoft Teams. “Calum Newton, who goes by CandyMoore.mp3 on social media, created…

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Datacenter networking servers

VMware to Launch New vCenter Converter Tool in Beta

vCenter Converter, the former physical to virtual (p2V) machine migration assistant that WMware retired in 2019 is set to officially make a comeback later this year. VMware has announced its plans to launch a beta version of its revamped vCenter Converter tool for enterprise customers. Essentially, vCenter Converter is a solution that allows users to…

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Windows Terminal 1.16 Preview Adds New Text Rendering Engine and Themes

Microsoft has announced the release of Windows Terminal version 1.16, which brings a couple of significant improvements to the user experience. First off, Microsoft has introduced a new feature that lets users customize their Windows Terminal windows. Specifically, Windows Terminal users can modify themes in the Settings JSON file and then enable them in the…

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Microsoft Teams Lets Users View Full Chat Conversation Thread in Search Results

Microsoft Teams is getting an improved search experience, which will allow users to see message threads right from search results. The updated search experience is currently available in public preview for the Teams desktop and web apps. Users can notice these changes in message results on the contextual search results and the Search results page…

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Security

IT Admins Can Now Manually Create Incidents in Microsoft Sentinel

Last Update: Feb 02, 2023

Microsoft announced yesterday some important updates for Microsoft Sentinel. This release brings a new feature that allows IT admins to manually create incident reports for investigation and remediation. Microsoft Sentinel is a cloud-based security information and event manager (SIEM) solution that helps organizations to analyze large volumes of data in enterprise environments. It leverages threat…

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Microsoft 365 Apps

Microsoft 365 apps Can Now Install Updates on Idle or Locked Windows Devices

Microsoft has introduced a new “update under lock” feature to streamline the update experience in its Microsoft 365 apps. The latest update enables users to install pending Office updates in idle or locked mode on Windows PCs. “Update under lock helps you reach compliance within your timeframes without disrupting your internal users, and potentially reduces…

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