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Microsoft is giving small and medium-sized businesses more room to manage growing email volumes by doubling the mailbox storage for eligible Microsoft 365 Business users from 50 GB to 100 GB. This change began rolling out in June as part of the 2026 Microsoft 365 packaging updates. Specifically, Microsoft has recently updated mailbox storage entitlements…

Microsoft has highlighted a range of new and preview capabilities rolled out to Microsoft Entra customers in August 2026. The latest updates strengthen identity management, automate governance tasks, improve hybrid identity scenarios, and give IT admins greater control over user access. Administrators can now use a supported registry setting to automatically approve single sign-on (SSO)…

As organizations embrace cloud applications, hybrid work, and AI-driven services, traditional Active Directory environments are being pushed beyond the role they were originally designed to play. Microsoft is urging IT teams to modernize identity management and adopt Microsoft Entra ID to strengthen security, simplify access governance, and prepare for an increasingly cloud and AI-powered workplace….

Microsoft is changing how organizations share Free/Busy availability, MailTips, and calendar data across different Microsoft 365 tenants. This change comes as Microsoft prepares to retire Exchange Web Services (EWS), which currently supports many of these cross-tenant collaboration capabilities. Cross-Tenant Access Policy (CTAP) is a security and collaboration framework that enables organizations to control how users…

As AI adoption accelerates across industries, organizations are beginning to see tangible benefits from their investments. However, new research reveals that translating business expertise into AI-powered workflows remains a critical hurdle on the path to greater ROI. According to Alteryx’s 2026 IT Leader Research: The State of AI Ownership, Agents, and ROI report, most organizations…

Office metadata should be treated as operational risk, not trivia. In Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files, metadata is the information stored with the file that describes the document rather than appearing as normal content. It can include the author, company, creation date, last modified by value, revision count, keywords, comments, custom properties, template names, and file-management…

If you’ve been wondering what happened to Exchange SE CU1, you’re not alone. Microsoft has published a new blog post explaining the delay and detailing how its increased focus on security and growing number of vulnerability fixes are affecting the way Exchange updates are developed and released. Exchange Server Subscription Edition (SE) is an on-premises…

Microsoft is urging organizations to use threat modeling to discover cryptographic dependencies that could become vulnerable as quantum computing advances. The company emphasized that identifying these risks early can help businesses prepare for the shift to quantum-resistant security and avoid costly disruptions during the transition. One of the biggest challenges in transitioning to post-quantum cryptography…

In this episode of First Ring Daily, Brad Sams and Paul Thurrott discuss Microsoft’s plan to unify its currently separate consumer and enterprise Copilot experiences into an all-in-one app.

As organizations rush to embrace AI, 80% experienced either a cybersecurity breach or an AI-related incident in the past year. The findings suggest that many companies are deploying AI faster than they can secure it, which leaves sensitive data and compliance efforts increasingly vulnerable. Kiteworks has just released its fifth annual Data Security and Compliance…

Microsoft is strengthening security across its Azure IoT services with a series of new enhancements designed to better protect connected devices. The updates introduce modern encryption, passwordless authentication, and more secure software update delivery to help organizations reduce the risks facing IoT environments. As organizations deploy larger fleets of connected devices, they face growing security…

Microsoft is giving its Copilot AI assistant a major branding and user experience overhaul, bringing personal and work experiences together in a single Microsoft Copilot app. The update introduces a new name, icon, and web address while ensuring that existing security, compliance, privacy, and data protection controls for commercial customers remain unchanged. Microsoft Copilot has…