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Microsoft has announced the general availability of its Sales Copilot at Inspire 2023 conference. The company is also bringing new AI-powered features to the Dynamics 365 customer insights platform to help organizations enhance customer engagement and sales. Microsoft Sales Copilot is an AI-based digital assistant designed for sales teams. The new service can generate content,…

Microsoft has announced that hotpatch support is now generally available for Windows Server Azure Edition VMs running the Desktop experience. This release enables organizations to patch and install updates to Windows Server virtual machines on Azure without rebooting. The Hotpatch feature accomplishes this goal by applying the patch in-memory code of running processes without restarting…

Encountering the “User profile service failed sign-in” error message can be frustrating and prevent you from accessing your logon user account on Windows. This error typically occurs due to issues with the user profile, and it can affect both local and domain accounts. In this article, I will provide a comprehensive troubleshooting guide to help…

Microsoft announced at its Inspire conference yesterday that it’s expanding its AI partnership with Meta to accelerate innovation in that field. Microsoft will be Meta’s preferred partner to distribute Llama 2, the company’s next-gen and open-source large language model (LLM) designed for commercial use.  Over the past couple of months, the AI conversation has mostly…

Microsoft announced this morning the pricing details of its Microsoft 365 Copilot tool alongside a new version of its Bing chatbot for enterprise users. The Microsoft 365 Copilot will be available as an add-on for $30 per user per month for all enterprise customers with Microsoft 365 E3, E5, Business Standard, and Business Premium subscriptions….

Nasuni has announced a new integration with Microsoft Sentinel. This release enables organizations to automatically detect security threats and initiate responses in enterprise environments. Nasuni’s file data platform offers a cloud-native solution to help organizations manage and store their data. The unified platform combines primary file storage, backup, disaster recovery, and file-sharing capabilities. Some key…

Microsoft has announced that the Edge Workspaces feature is now generally available for enterprise customers. The new collaboration experience launched in public preview back in April, and it lets users work together in a shared workspace within the web browser. Microsoft Edge Workspaces allow users to share a set of tabs and favorites with their…

Last week, Microsoft confirmed that Chinese hackers gained unauthorized access to email accounts of U.S. government agencies and other sensitive organizations. On Friday, the company detailed a blog post to explain the cause of the security breach that compromised Exchange Online email services. According to Microsoft’s Threat Intelligence team, the Storm-0558 hacking group abused three…

When working with SQL Server databases, the SQL COALESCE expression is commonly used to detect null values and provide a fallback or default value when dealing with nullable columns or expressions in SQL queries. It’s like a syntactic shortcut for the CASE expression, and it’s typically used to make subsequent calculations easier. In this article,…

Microsoft has added support for new system-based alerts in public preview for Windows 365 Enterprise customers. The new feature enables IT admins to keep track of Windows 365 Cloud PCs that are in a grace period. With this release, the Windows 365 IT admin alerts feature triggers an email when a Cloud PC enters the…

Microsoft has introduced restricted management administrative units support in public preview for Microsoft Entra ID. The new role-based access control (RBAC) feature lets organizations allow only select IT admins, security teams, or devices to access specific resources. “Restricted management administrative units allow you to protect specific objects in your tenant from modification by anyone other…

Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose is a fully managed service for efficiently streaming data from virtually any data source to your AWS applications. It provides near-real-time ingestion capabilities for building real-time data applications. In this article, we’ll detail how Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose works and the best use cases for it. What is Amazon Kinesis Data…