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Microsoft announced yesterday several new features for developers at its Azure Open Source Day 2023. The company explained that these capabilities enable software developers to quickly build intelligent applications. “Most companies have leveraged AI to improve efficiency and costs. Large AI applications leveraging natural language processing (NLP), automatic speech recognition (ASR), and text-to-speech (TTS) are…

Microsoft has announced that it’s deprecating Remote PowerShell (RPS) for Exchange Online in new tenants next month. The company will begin blocking RPS connections for all new Exchange Online customers on April 1, 2023. “Today, we are announcing that starting April 1, 2023, we will start blocking RPS connections for all tenants created on or…

Remote and virtual desktop solutions provide a flexible way for users to access remote services securely while maintaining control of how the users access those services. In this article, I’ll explain how FSLogix can optimize remote and virtual desktop environments by leveraging Profile Containers and FSLogix Application Masking. I’ll also detail the FSLogix features allowing…

Microsoft has started rolling out a new system-preferred authentication policy in preview for Azure AD customers. The feature enables the system to evaluate which authentication method should be used when a user signs in to Azure AD. With system-preferred authentication, Azure AD will check all authentication methods registered for an account and only show the…

Microsoft has announced that its Outlook for Mac client is now available as a free app on Apple’s App Store. The company detailed yesterday that users no longer need a Microsoft 365 subscription or paid license to use the macOS version of the Outlook app. “The Outlook for Mac app complements Outlook for iOS –…

Pure Storage, the US-based company known for its innovative flash-based storage solutions recently unveiled FlashBlade//E, a new cost-effective solution for managing unstructured data using flash storage. The new offering follows the launch of the FlashBlade//S family last year that brought a modular architecture that separates compute from capacity. “Where FlashBlade//S is tuned for critical, high-performance…

As Microsoft puts it, teams and channels are where ‘real work gets done’. Let’s look more closely at Teams channels vs chats. Microsoft Teams is a complex tool that allows users to collaborate using a mixture of apps provided by Microsoft 365, like OneDrive files, SharePoint libraries, Microsoft Lists, Planner, Approvals, and many others. In…

Microsoft’s Windows Insider Program, which lets consumers and business users test new Windows 11 features ahead of their public release is getting an overhaul. Microsoft is launching a new Canary channel today while the existing Dev channel is getting a “reboot.” Microsoft originally launched its Windows Insider Program back in the fall of 2014, almost…

Microsoft announced this morning a new Microsoft Dynamics 365 Copilot solution. The new AI-powered tool allows customers to automate repetitive tasks for customer relationship management (CRM) and enterprise resource planning (ERP). “Dynamics 365 Copilot takes advantage of recent advancements in generative AI to automate these tedious tasks and unlock the full creativity of the workforce….

Microsoft has announced the release of version 5.0 of the Microsoft Teams PowerShell module. The latest release brings major performance improvements and new filtering capabilities for the Get-CsOnlineUser cmdlet. The Get-CsOnlineUser cmdlet is a PowerShell command that is used in Microsoft Teams to retrieve information about user accounts. It fetches information about the user name,…

Microsoft has introduced a new feature that allows customers to configure an app instance property lock for Azure AD enterprise applications. The new capability helps organizations prevent attackers from making any changes to sensitive properties of multi-tenant application objects. OAuth is a security protocol that enables users to share information about their accounts with third-party…

Microsoft has released an update that brings new premium capabilities for Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management. The new security features provide comprehensive assessments to help IT admins track and mitigate security risks in their most critical assets. Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management is a security tool that uses AI to detect, analyze, prioritize, and fix vulnerabilities in…