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Microsoft has released a new Windows corporate identifier feature for its Microsoft Intune service. This new feature is designed to enhance enrollment restrictions by ensuring that only corporate devices can access the network. Microsoft emphasized the importance of administrators to ensure that only authorized devices access corporate resources. This requires identifying both company-owned and personal…

Microsoft Teams is getting a new setting that will allow IT admins to block federated communications with trial-only Microsoft 365 tenants. This enhanced control aims to help organizations safeguard their users from phishing and abuse attacks by malicious actors. A trial-only tenant is a tenant with a Teams service plan that exclusively uses trial subscriptions…

Microsoft has introduced support for cross-region disaster recovery for Windows 365 Enterprise. This new optional service allows organizations to safeguard their Cloud PCs and data against regional outages. The cross-region disaster recovery feature creates a copy of the users’ Windows 365 Cloud PCs in an alternate region. This copy utilizes the most recent restore point…

Microsoft unveiled a range of new features and improvements for its Teams collaboration service in June 2024, enhancing chat, meeting experiences, Teams Rooms, and Teams Phones. Highlights include the new Copilot integration for customizing messages, intelligent message translation, and several updates for multi-tenant organizations. Chat & collaboration features Microsoft has introduced a new Copilot integration…

Microsoft has announced its plans to phase out the drive synchronization feature in Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) on April 18, 2025. The company has advised commercial customers to migrate to the new cloud-based driver services. WSUS driver synchronization allows administrators to automate the process of distributing driver updates within their organizations. They can approve…

Microsoft has announced the public preview of a new optimization architecture for Microsoft Teams on virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI). This preview is now accessible to Teams users on Azure Virtual Desktop, Windows 365, and Citrix DaaS, as well as Virtual Apps and Desktops for Windows endpoints. This new VDI solution for Microsoft Teams has been…

Microsoft has released a new update that introduces guest/external sharing support for its Loop app. This new feature enhances collaboration by allowing users to share workspaces, pages, and components with external collaborators. “Workspaces can only be shared with users that have an existing guest account in your tenant. If Business-to-business Invitation Manager is enabled, users…

Microsoft has announced the general availability of the Copilot for Security threat intelligence (TI) embedded experience in the Defender XDR portal. The new AI-powered tool is designed to contextualize and summarize intelligence from Microsoft Defender Threat Intelligence (MDTI) and threat analytics. The new Microsoft Copilot for Security TI embedded experience enables customers to access and…

Microsoft has announced that its new Teams client is now available as a progressive web app (PWA) for both Windows and Mac devices. Starting today, web users can install the new Microsoft Teams PWA directly from their browser’s address bar. In this new Teams web client, Microsoft has replaced the resource-heavy Electron framework and the…

The European Commission has issued new antitrust charges against Microsoft concerning the bundling of Microsoft Teams with Office 365/Microsoft 365 commercial subscriptions. This move follows the EC’s preliminary findings from an antitrust investigation that started back in July 2023. “In particular, the Commission is concerned that Microsoft may have granted Teams a distribution advantage by…

Microsoft will soon rename its existing Outlook for Windows app to “Outlook (classic),” starting with customers using version 2407 or later. This rebranding aims to clearly distinguish the classic app from the new Outlook for Windows client. Microsoft announced in a message on the Microsoft 365 admin center that this change will only affect the…

Microsoft Intune is set to introduce a new Remove apps and configuration (RAC) feature next month. The new troubleshooting tool allows IT admins to quickly diagnose and resolve issues by temporarily removing apps and configurations from managed mobile devices. “Before RAC, removing settings involved excluding devices from policy assignments or removing users from groups, and…