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This Week in IT, discover how Microsoft’s pivot to Rust could mark the end of notorious Windows driver vulnerabilities! Plus, M365 gets a new Loop service plan, which means the Loop app could be approaching GA, the new Outlook for Windows gets some key updates, and lots more of the week’s most important IT news….

This Week in IT, September’s bringing a fresh wave of features to Windows 11. Discover what’s changing and why it matters in my deep dive. Plus, Microsoft 365 Copilot is coming for commercial customers – we know the date, and Azure Update Manager is now generally available, and Microsoft Planner is getting personal. Transcript This…

This Week in IT, is your Microsoft 365 tenant vulnerable to the W3LL Phishing attack that bypasses MFA? Stay tuned as I look at the risks and how to protect your users. Plus, get the latest updates on Windows 365 and OneDrive, and there are major changes coming to Outlook and printer support in Windows….

This Week in IT, are you a Microsoft Teams user on a Mac? Then you won’t want to miss this game-changing update! Stick around to find out what’s changing. Plus, Microsoft releases a new Group Policy analytics tool and Loop components are getting a new feature for developers. And all the rest of this week’s…

This Week in IT, are you ready for a big change coming to Microsoft 365? From Teams’ surprising move in Europe to a game-changing update for multi-tenant collaboration. Plus, a CPU glitch that might be causing Windows 11 to crash—stay tuned, as I’m breaking it all down! Transcript This Week in IT, are you ready…

This Week in IT, Microsoft officially launches Edge for Business, bringing with it updates to browser profiles and new controls for IT. Plus, Windows 365 is coming to VMWare Horizon, admins get a new control for Windows Update on Windows 11, and all the rest of this week’s announcements…. Use the timestamps on the YouTube…

This Week in IT, I look at how Loop and Planner use ‘roster containers’ (aka lightweight Planner plans), an alternative to Microsoft 365 Groups, which now support sensitivity labels.  Plus, Microsoft Stream brings support for collaborative notes in Teams meetings, Intune Remote Help now works on Android, and Loop users can add Jira and Trello…

Microsoft makes Loop easier to deploy and releases an app in the Store but is Loop too complicated to use? Plus, Windows 365 Switch arrives in preview, Windows 11 is getting support for the Azure Attestation Service, and all the week’s important IT news.

In this week’s episode, I discuss news about Teams version 2.0! Microsoft has announced plans to make the new client app more widely available. Plus, SharePoint gets a makeover, say goodbye to insecure protocols in Windows 11, and much more… Check out This Week in IT and make sure you subscribe and hit the bell…

This Week in IT now has its own YouTube Channel! If you have been watching This Week in IT since it started more than a year ago, you will probably realize that home was the Petri IT Knowledgebase YouTube channel. We recently decided that it would be nice to give the show its own identity…

With the exception of Windows 11 Moment 3 landing for everyone in July, it’s been a fairly quiet month. But Insiders did get access to Windows Copilot and the new Outlook for Windows client and Microsoft revealed more about Windows 11 version 23H2. Let’s get started! Windows 11 Moment 3 generally available with July Patch…

Is your data in Microsoft 365 as secure as you think it is? It depends. As Microsoft 365 Backup goes into preview, I look at the solution and whether you need a separate backup of your cloud data. Plus, changes to WSUS and new Windows Autopatch features hit general availability. Transcript Is your data in…