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Microsoft has announced a new converged platform to enhance risk management within enterprise environments. This new platform aims to streamline risk discovery and remediation, offering administrators insights and control over identities and permissions. This new converged platform will be built on Microsoft’s existing Entra ID products, including Privileged Identity Management (PAM), Permissions Management (CIEM), ID…

Microsoft is backtracking on its plans to retire Teams Live Events in September 2024. Last year, the company warned commercial customers that this feature would be deprecated by September 30, but those plans unexpectedly changed this week. Microsoft Teams introduced the town hall experience in Fall 2023. It allows organizations to host different types of…

In this guide, Bharat Bhushan shows you how to diagnose and resolve an Exchange dirty shutdown error and help you to bring the Exchange database back to a clean shutdown state. Thanks to Stellar Info for sponsoring this post. The Exchange Server logs serve as the backbone of data integrity and disaster recovery in Exchange…

Microsoft has recently announced a new Windows Autopilot device preparation experience for commercial customers. Built on a re-engineered architecture, this new solution delivers enhanced scalability, accelerated deployments, and support for cloud-based instances such as Windows 365 and Azure Virtual Desktops. What is Windows Autopilot? Microsoft first launched Windows Autopilot back in June 2017. It’s a…

Microsoft is set to enhance its Intune solution with a suite of new capabilities designed to optimize both administrative and user experiences across various platforms. Key features include the next-generation Windows Autopilot experience, advanced management tools for shared devices, improved security baselines, and streamlined device enrollment processes. Windows Autopilot device preparation Microsoft has launched the…

In this episode of First Ring Daily, Brad Sams and Paul Thurrott discussed the most interesting announcements from Microsoft this week as the company’s annual Build developer conference was coming to a close.

Last year, Microsoft unveiled its plans to end support for VBScript, a scripting language that has been a staple for Windows administrators for nearly three decades. The company announced yesterday that the deprecation process for this legacy tool will begin in the second half of 2024. Microsoft introduced VBScript (Visual Basic Script) back in 1996….

SharePoint Embedded, the new Microsoft Graph API-powered service that launched in public preview in November 2023 is now generally available. The company has also announced the public preview of SharePoint Embedded custom copilot experiences. SharePoint Embedded is a new API-based version of SharePoint that allows developers and ISVs to integrate advanced Microsoft 365 capabilities into…

Microsoft detailed today several new features coming to Microsoft Teams and Loop to help users collaborate more effectively with colleagues. The company is adding support for custom emojis and reactions in public preview to Microsoft Teams chats next month. Custom emojis and reactions In Microsoft Teams, custom emoji support is one of the top-requested features…

Microsoft unveiled several updates for its Microsoft 365 suite of services at the annual Build developer conference. The company announced today several new AI-powered features and additional data protection capabilities for Microsoft Teams Premium customers. Microsoft Teams will add intelligent recap support for meetings with only transcription enabled. It will allow meeting participants to access…

Microsoft continues to improve Copilot for Microsoft 365 which became generally available for commercial customers in November 2023. The company is getting ready to introduce new Team Copilot to help teams enhance collaboration and streamline project management. “Team Copilot expands Copilot beyond a personal assistant to act on behalf of a team, a department, oran…

Microsoft has announced a public preview of the new Fluid Framework 2.0 today at its Build 2024 conference. The latest update to the company’s open-source platform is designed to let developers quickly build real-time collaborative apps. Microsoft’s Fluid Framework debuted back in 2019. It enables developers to build low-latency applications that support real-time collaboration across…