Rabia Noureen

Microsoft has published a recap of all the new features and improvements added to Copilot for Microsoft 365 during the month of April 2024. The company highlighted several notable improvements tailored to enhance productivity and efficiency across desktop, mobile, and web platforms. Later this month, Microsoft will add support for Graph-grounded Copilot chat to classic…

Microsoft has unveiled a host of new capabilities for its Microsoft Purview and Defender for Cloud solutions. The new features help IT administrators in efficiently managing, protecting, and governing AI applications within enterprise environments. First off, Microsoft has launched a new Purview AI Hub in public preview. This new service enables IT admins to gain…

Microsoft has announced plans to make security its top priority to better protect its infrastructure and customers against sophisticated cyberattacks. The company has recently detailed in a blog post that it’s expanding the Secure Future Initiative (SFI) to ensure robust protection measures. Last year, Microsoft announced its Secure Future Initiative (SFI) to boost the built-in…

Microsoft Entra External ID, the new customer identity access management solution (CIAM) that the company announced last year, is set to officially launch on May 15. This new service allows organizations to create sign-in interfaces for customer-facing Web apps and pages. Microsoft mentioned that it could be challenging for IT admins to manage external identities…

Microsoft has started rolling out the Copilot AI assistant to the new Planner app in Teams. The new Copilot integration allows team members to plan, manage, and track projects directly within the Teams desktop and web apps. Microsoft highlights that Copilot in Planner enables team members to use natural language commands to generate a plan,…

Microsoft has published a recap of all the new capabilities added to Teams during the month of April 2024. The company has enhanced the chat and meeting experience with multi-turn conversations with Copilot, live translated captions for webinars, custom profile pictures, and more. Chat and collaboration features For starters, Microsoft detailed a couple of enhancements…

Microsoft released several new device management capabilities for its Intune solution in April 2024. The company highlighted several improvements, including streamlined app updates for better security and productivity and simplified troubleshooting for Microsoft 365 apps. Microsoft has introduced updated app supersedence to help administrators keep Win32 applications up to date. The supersedence feature lets IT…

Last year, Microsoft unveiled its plans to introduce a new Offline mode for the OneDrive web app. Now, the company has announced the rollout of new Offline capabilities for work and school accounts. With this new Offline mode, OneDrive lets users access their files via a web browser when offline and then automatically sync back…

Microsoft has recently announced the public preview of its new Trusted Signing solution. This fully managed end-to-end signing service is designed to streamline processes, allowing developers to effortlessly build and distribute apps. “The service supports both public and private trust signing scenarios and includes a timestamping service. With Trusted Signing, users enjoy a productive, performant,…

Microsoft Outlook is about to add a new meeting response option (RSVP) to the new Outlook for Windows and the Outlook web app. The new “Follow” option for meeting responses will provide users with a way to stay engaged even when they can’t attend. The new follow feature will inform organizers that the user won’t…

Microsoft has announced the general availability of the new multi-tenant organization (MTO) capabilities for Entra ID customers. The new feature is designed to enhance the cross-tenant collaboration experience in Microsoft Teams and Viva Engage. A multi-tenant organization is a group of up to five Entra ID tenants that are linked together by cross-tenant access policies…

Microsoft has announced its plans to significantly reduce the size of its updates for Windows 10 version 22H2. The company has introduced an improved cumulative update (CU) technology that promises expedited downloads, reduced network congestion, and optimized performance, particularly benefiting users on slower connections. In 2021, Microsoft detailed its efforts to cut down the size…