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Microsoft has detailed all the improvements made to its Teams collaboration service in May 2023. The major highlights include a new active speaker view, 3D avatars, offline meetings, as well as management and security features. Here’s a look at everything you need to know. Active speaker view for Microsoft Teams meetings Microsoft Teams has introduced…

Last month was packed with Windows announcements as Windows 11 did get a lot of stage time during Microsoft’s annual Build developer conference. With Windows Copilot, Microsoft will integrate a new AI assistant into the OS, and Windows Insiders will get to test it first later this month.  The software giant also made various announcements…

Microsoft has announced the general availability of cross-tenant synchronization for Azure Active Directory (recently renamed Microsoft Entra ID) customers. The new feature allows IT admins to automate the creation of user accounts across tenants in their organization. Microsoft launched the public preview of cross-tenant synchronization for Azure AD back in January. Cross-tenant synchronization helps to…

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced that Amazon Security Lake is hitting general availability this week. The new service enables organizations to create a specialized data lake to aggregate, normalize, and store security data. Security teams often face difficulties in gathering scattered security data within an organization. This is primarily because identity providers, firewalls, and…

As an IT admin, preventing your users from using simple or known-hacked passwords has become critical for the overall security of your enterprise. An excellent step to take is to plan for and deploy Azure AD Password Protection. In this article, I’ll walk you through installing the Proxy service and DC agent in your on-premises…

Microsoft announced yesterday that the AI-based intelligent recap feature is now generally available for Microsoft Teams Premium subscribers. Powered by OpenAI’s GPT-3.5 model, the feature provides an overview of the most important information discussed during Teams meetings. In Microsoft Teams, the intelligent recap feature can automatically generate meeting notes, recommended tasks, and personalized highlights. Users…

The new Microsoft Teams 2.0 client that Microsoft made available in public preview in late March will become the default app for Windows users later this year. Anupam Pattnaik, the Product Lead for Teams 2.0 detailed the company’s plans in the first episode of UnplugIT, our new IT pro podcast hosted by Microsoft veteran Stephen…

In this first episode, Stephen talks to Microsoft’s Anupam Pattnaik, Product Lead for Teams. In this inaugural show, Stephen and Anupam discuss how IT can control access to the new Teams experience for end users, when Teams 2.0 will become the default experience for everyone, when the new client will reach feature parity with classic…

I’m delighted to announce that Stephen L Rose has joined Petri.com as Chief Technology Strategist. For those who don’t know Stephen, for fourteen years he led Microsoft deployment, adoption, and usage of Windows, Office, OneDrive, and Teams and Co-Pilot for IT professionals worldwide. And Stephen currently holds over 15 Microsoft and CompTIA technical certifications. As…

Microsoft has recently announced the release of tenant restrictions version 2 (TRv2) for commercial cloud customers. The latest release enables IT admins to control whether end users can use externally issued identities to access external apps from org-owned devices or corporate networks. The tenant restriction feature builds on the cross-tenant access settings that launched in…

In this episode of First Ring Daily, Stephen Rose, Petri’s Chief Technology Strategist, talks to Paul and Brad about the most interesting news from Build 2023.

Microsoft released the public preview of Authenticator Lite for its Outlook mobile apps back in March 2023. The company has announced that the feature is now generally available on Android and iOS devices. Microsoft’s Authenticator Lite feature allows users to approve multifactor authentication requests for work or school accounts directly in the Outlook mobile app….