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Microsoft has launched a new WebRTC-based enterprise content delivery network (eCDN) solution. The new standalone offering is a result of Microsoft’s acquisition of Peer5 in August 2021, and it optimizes network performance to enhance live video streaming in Microsoft Teams. Microsoft Teams has become a popular tool for conducting large corporate webcasts and org-wide training…

Last month, Microsoft announced that it’s revising the pricing structure of the Teams Rooms subscriptions. The company unveiled yesterday new Teams Rooms Pro and Teams Rooms Basic offerings, which replace the existing Standard and Premium plans. Microsoft Teams Rooms Basic is a free tier designed to meet the needs of small and medium-sized businesses. It…

Microsoft Teams is working on a new update that will improve the meeting experience for desktop and web users. The feature will allow users to automatically view the video feed of up to 49 participants on their screens by default. Currently, the Microsoft Teams app displays up to 9 videos during meetings. However, users in…

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…