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In the ever-evolving digital landscape, organizations are generating an increasing volume of emails and other electronic communications. Efficiently managing this growing influx of messages while maintaining compliance with regulatory requirements has become a critical aspect of modern business operations. One effective solution offered by Microsoft’s Office 365 suite is the archive mailbox feature. In this…

Microsoft has detailed several updates to celebrate the first anniversary of Windows Autopatch. The new capabilities that are designed to help IT admins improve productivity and security will become generally available on July 25. Microsoft launched its Windows Autopatch back in July 2022. It’s a cloud-based service that allows customers to automate the patching of…

Microsoft announced yesterday the general availability of its Windows 365 Frontline service. The new offering launched in public preview in April, allowing organizations to offer Cloud PCs to frontline, shift, and part-time workers. With Windows 365 Frontline, customers can purchase a certain number of Cloud PC licenses that can be shared among different employees. The…

As Microsoft is still busy implementing AI-powered Copilot experiences across all of its cloud services, this month we’re going to take a look at some of the quieter features Microsoft added to its Power Platform to help makers be more efficient and secure when building apps. Delegation improvements for Power Apps Anybody who’s ever built…

Researchers have developed an exploit for a new critical vulnerability in the FortiGate firewall that affects around 336,000 Internet-exposed devices. The security advisory warned that IT admins have yet to install the patches released in June 2023. The heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability (tracked as CVE-2023-27997) has a severity rating of 9.8 out of 10. It…

In today’s dynamic business landscape, managing user access to resources is critical for organizations. Azure Active Directory (AAD), a comprehensive identity and access management solution from Microsoft, offers a powerful feature called dynamic groups. These dynamic user groups provide a flexible and automated approach to managing user access based on predefined rules and user attributes….

Microsoft is getting ready to make its new Teams 2.0 client available for all users. As of today, the new app is available via a toggle in public preview, but the same toggle will become generally available for customers in September. Microsoft launched the new Teams 2.0 client in public preview in March 2023. The…

Microsoft has introduced support for app health recommendations in Microsoft Entra Workload Identities. The feature provides insights with actionable guidance to help organizations prevent outages and secure their Azure AD environments. Microsoft Entra Workload Identities launched back in November 2022. It’s an identity and access management (IAM) solution that enables IT admins to configure Conditional…

The T-SQL LIKE operator is one of the most useful additions to the SQL SELECT statement. The latter retrieves a result set, and you can easily filter the results using equality operators and the WHERE clause to select certain specific conditions. But what about those times when you might want to select rows that are…

Microsoft has shared the latest round of updates made to its Teams collaboration platform in June 2023. The company released 45 new features to improve meetings, chats, Teams Rooms devices, and much more. Here’s a look at everything you need to know. Meeting and calling features Last month, Microsoft introduced a new Spatial audio feature…

Microsoft Teams Meeting Notes is a feature in the Teams and Outlook apps that allows you to take collaborative notes during meetings in Microsoft Teams. Meeting Notes are Loop components stored in the chat transcript for the meeting, so you can easily access them later or share them elsewhere. In this article, I will show…

Microsoft has announced a new strategic partnership with New York-based financial risk assessment firm Moody’s. The company explained that the deal will enable Moody’s to bring generative AI capabilities to its enterprise solutions. Moody’s plans to use Azure OpenAI service to build new research and risk assessment products and services in order to improve data…