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Microsoft has announced that Teams Premium is now generally available for enterprise customers. The new add-on subscription, powered by OpenAI’s GPT-3.5 technology, brings advanced webinar capabilities to improve the collaboration and meeting experience in Microsoft Teams. Microsoft unveiled Teams Premium with a host of other new features at its Ignite 2022 conference in October last…

Microsoft Sentinel, which was previously known as Azure Sentinel, is a Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) solution for Azure and Microsoft 365. Just like other SIEM solutions, it combines Security Information Management (SIM) and Security Event Management (SEM). In this article, we’re going to explain how Microsoft Sentinel works and how this solution can…

Uncovering Hidden Risks is a new monthly podcast from the Microsoft Security team that looks at taking the data security conversation beyond compliance and classifications. How do you protect data but still make sure people are productive? Host Erica Toelle talks to Microsoft and industry experts about reducing the risk of data breaches by taking…

Security researchers have discovered a phishing campaign that tricked users into authorizing permissions for malicious OAuth applications. Microsoft has disabled several fraudulent Microsoft Partner Network (MPN) accounts that breached organizations’ cloud environments. Microsoft explained in a security advisory that the security firm Proofpoint discovered the campaign in early December. The threat actors initially impersonated legitimate…

There have been some exciting new developments within the Power Apps and Power Automate spaces in January. We’ve had an interesting spin on pay-as-you-go licensing, a new Shared Device Mode for frontline workers, a cool new way to work with SharePoint data in Dataverse, plus that big AI revolution that everyone is talking about. Overall,…

Microsoft has officially stopped selling downloadable licenses for Windows 10 Home and Professional editions on its website. Indeed, the company has discontinued sales of the Windows 10 product keys and is redirecting customers to Windows 11 product pages instead. Last week, Microsoft quietly updated its Windows 10 product pages with an alarming message that January…

Microsoft has announced a new design for Microsoft Teams Rooms on Windows. The company announced yesterday that the upcoming update (version 4.16) should bring a new look and feel to align with the user interface of Teams Rooms on Android devices. “Users will first notice the vivid new ambient screens and a refreshed calendar on…

Microsoft has announced the general availability of its Office 365 Government Secret service. The new cloud SKU supports Impact Level 6 (IL6) and helps to meet the security and compliance requirements of the US government agencies and partners that manage classified data. Microsoft first unveiled Office 365 Government Secret back in March 2022. At that…

Microsoft Defender for Endpoint has introduced device isolation support in public preview on onboarded Linux machines. The security feature enables IT admins to isolate Linux machines manually via the Microsoft 365 Defender portal or API requests. According to Microsoft, the threat actors will no longer be able to remotely connect with the isolated Linux devices….

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Last week, Microsoft confirmed a multi-hour outage that prevented users from accessing Azure, Microsoft Teams, and other Microsoft 365 services. The company has since published a preliminary post-incident report to update customers about the root cause of the issue. Microsoft explained that the disruption was caused by a router IP address change during a planned…

Microsoft has released a new optional patch to fix a bug that caused the Remote Desktop application to crash on Windows 11. The company was previously affecting users running Windows 11 version 22H2 (also known as the Windows 11 2022 Update) on their systems. According to Microsoft, several users reported that the Remote Desktop app…