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Microsoft has released a new email alerts feature that should make it easier for IT admins to keep track of known issues in Windows PCs. The highly requested feature enables administrators to sign-up for email notifications about Windows bugs via Microsoft 365 admin center. Essentially, known issues are problems that impact the user experience, security,…

Microsoft is removing the waitlist for its new AI-powered Bing today, and the company also detailed several new features to enhance the search experience with AI. The software giant also plans to turn its Bing chatbot into a platform and let developers create third-party plugins for it, echoing the recent launch of the first plugins…

Polly has teamed up with video technology provider Pexip to launch new cloud-based and on-premises communications services. The new offerings are designed to meet the business communication and privacy needs of the public, government, and private customers. Specifically, Poly has integrated Pexip’s technology into its products to provide three communication solutions. These include Poly PrivateConnect…

Microsoft is planning to make web links in Microsoft Outlook and Teams to open by default in its Edge browser. The company is giving IT admins a 30 days notice that this change will be gradually rolled out in Outlook for Windows for all business customers. Microsoft first announced the web link behavior change for…

Microsoft published a detailed roundup of all the new features added to Microsoft Teams in April 2023. This time around, the company highlighted improvements to meetings, webinars, management capabilities, Teams Rooms devices, and much more. Let’s dive in! Meetings features Starting with meetings, Microsoft has released a new feature that will automatically lower a participant’s…

Microsoft detailed yesterday several new updates coming to its SharePoint platform over the coming months, including a new AI-powered Copilot experience. Microsoft has an ambitious product roadmap for SharePoint sites and pages this year, and advanced image editing features and a new integration of Sharepoint pages into emails will roll out first in the next…

Windows Local Administrator Password Solution (Windows LAPS) is a powerful tool that allows organizations to better manage and protect their local administrator account passwords on Windows devices. This feature is available on Azure Active Directory-joined or Windows Server Active Directory-joined devices. In this article, I will explain how to configure Windows LAPS in an Microsoft…

This month, as promised, we’re seeing the Microsoft Power Platform lean into AI enhancements. Many of these new AI-powered features are genuinely useful, and they should certainly improve as users provide feedback to the company. As I always advise, you shouldn’t use experimental features in production apps, but once they cross the threshold to preview,…

Microsoft has announced a new version of the OneDrive web app for business and education customers. The company highlighted today that the updated app will include a new home experience that reduces the time required to find important files and documents. With this release, the OneDrive web app is getting a new “For you” section…

Microsoft has detailed a bunch of new features added to its Windows Autopatch service in May 2023. The company explained that this is the most “impactful” update since Windows Autopach was launched back in May 2023. Windows Autopatch is a cloud-based service that enables IT admins to automate the patching of Windows, Microsoft 365 apps,…

Microsoft has partnered with Stripe, PayPal, and GoDaddy to launch a new Payments app for Microsoft Teams. The app allows small businesses in the US and Canada to accept payments for webinars, one-on-one sessions, classes, appointments, and events within Teams meetings. “We have partnered with leading players in the payments space to combine the core…

Last week, Google announced account synchronization support for its Authenticator app. On April 25, the security research team Mysk highlighted on Twitter that the feature lacks support for end-to-end encryption (E2EE). The security researchers found that the network traffic used to sync the credentials is not end-to-end encrypted. This means that the seed used to…