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Microsoft has announced a new Elgato Stream Deck integration with Microsoft Teams. Indeed, the company has released a new Teams plugin that enables users to manage their meetings with the streaming tool. The Elgato Stream Deck is a customizable control pad that is quite popular for Twitch live-streaming sessions. Microsoft explained that the Elgato Stream…

Microsoft has announced the release of a new update that brings improvements to reports in its Universal Print service. The company has made it easier for IT administrators to monitor print activity in their organization by updating the Usage and Reports page with new graphs, charts, and data points. Microsoft launched the Universal Print service…

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) is a service that provides scalable cloud capacity in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud. With Amazon EC2, organizations can choose between a wide variety of instances that are optimized for different cloud computing use cases. In this tutorial, we’ll explain everything you need to know about the different…

ChatGPT has rapidly ushered AI into mainstream technology in a big way. Launched in November of 2022, ChatGPT has already garnered millions of users with its natural language AI-based responses to a huge variety of queries that range from writing term papers, articles, and software to answering emails, creating song lyrics, and even debugging many…

Microsoft is adding a new policy that enables IT admins to customize the Windows Search experience on the Windows 11 taskbar. The company announced yesterday that the feature is already available in the latest Windows 11 preview builds for Insiders in the Beta and Dev channels. Microsoft recently started testing improvements to the search experience…

Microsoft has introduced new generative AI-based capabilities to improve the customer service experience in Viva Sales. Powered by OpenAI’s GPT 3.5, the new AI tool will automatically generate preformatted email responses with personalized text, promotion offers, pricing details, and deadlines. Microsoft’s new research indicates that an average seller spends more than 66 percent of their…

Windows has had a slow start to 2023. But nevertheless, there are some interesting pieces of news to share, including a 39 percent drop in Windows revenue from PC makers in FY2023 Q2, tabs coming to Notepad, an updated design for File Explorer, and more. So, let’s get started. Windows revenue plummets 39 percent in…

Microsoft announced yesterday the general availability of its Azure Load Testing service. The new fully managed service is designed to help developers and quality assurance (QA) teams optimize the performance and scalability of their apps and services. Load testing is a technique that enables developers to test the performance of their applications under real-life conditions….

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…