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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…

Microsoft has released a new troubleshooting pane update for Microsoft Intune. The new experience is designed to provide information about users’ devices, applications, policies, and deployment status to help IT admins address help requests in their organization. Microsoft Intune’s new troubleshooting pane experience enables customers to export, filter, and sort all reports. It also provides…

The UPN and sAMAccountName are user account attributes in Active Directory. In this article, I’ll explain how these two user account attributes work and how the username and user logon name can be used in your organization. What are user naming attributes in Active Directory? In the world of Active Directory, there are two core…

This week, during its quarterly earnings call, Microsoft reported that revenue is up two percent year-on-year. But there were definitely some winners and fairly major losers. Not to diminish the layoffs that Microsoft announced the week before but the future looks solid. Windows revenue from PC makers plummets What might have been a shock for…

Microsoft has recommended customers to deploy the latest January 2023 security updates on on-premises Exchange servers. The company urges IT admins to keep their Exchange servers patched to protect their organization from cyberattacks and security threats. In a Techcommunity blog post, Microsoft raised an alarm that malicious actors are increasingly leveraging vulnerabilities to compromise unpatched…