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Microsoft started switching off Basic Authentication support for Exchange Online customers back in October. The company announced yesterday that it’s killing off Basic Authentication for the Autodiscover service on December 31, 2022. The Autodiscover protocol allows client applications to get the configuration data required to communicate with the Exchange Server. It’s used by Outlook, Exchange…

Microsoft has announced a new “multi-year” deal with Nvidia to build an AI supercomputer hosted in Microsoft Azure and powered by tens of thousands of Nvidia GPUs. The new partnership should enable organizations to train, deploy and scale AI applications and services. “AI is fueling the next wave of automation across enterprises and industrial computing,…

Microsoft has launched a new Games for Work app that allows users to play casual games during Teams meetings. The company announced this morning that the new app is only available for Microsoft Teams enterprise and education customers. The Microsoft Casual Games team, a part of Xbox Game Studios, has built the new Games for…

Last month, Microsoft announced at its Ignite 2022 conference that a Microsoft 365 app would replace the existing Office app on Windows, mobile, and the web. A new message posted on the Microsoft 365 Admin Center yesterday indicates that the new Microsoft 365 web app has started rolling out this week, with Windows and mobile…

Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID) is a data storage technique that groups multiple physical storage disks (HDDs or SSDs) to work together as a single virtual storage drive. In this article, we’ll be detailing two of the most used RAID levels – RAID 5 and RAID 6. We’ll be highlighting the major differences between…

Microsoft has announced its plans to deprecate some file-sharing capabilities in its Office mobile apps. The company detailed in a blog post yesterday that the Nearby Share and Transfer Files features will stop working on December 31, 2022. The Nearby Share feature provides a streamlined and simple process to easily share files between two Android…

Microsoft has confirmed a new bug that causes problems with the Direct Access remote connectivity feature on Windows 10 and Windows 11. The company has updated the Windows Health Dashboard to mention that the recent updates have been rolled back due to the DirectAccess connection issues affecting Windows PCs. The DirectAccess feature allows remote users…

Last month, Microsoft unveiled that it’s working on a new feature to let users delete chats permanently from their list in Teams. Now, Microsoft has announced that this update will begin rolling out to all Microsoft Teams desktop and mobile clients in December. “Users can now delete 1:1 chats, group chats, and meeting chats if…

Last week, Microsoft announced two new virtual machines (VMs) for Azure HPC customers. The new HX-series and HBv4-series VMs are powered by 4th Gen AMD EPYC processors that promise cost efficiency and higher performance. Azure HPC is a purpose-built cloud service that delivers storage, computing and data management services for high-performance computing (HPC) applications. Azure’s…

Microsoft has announced that a new point-in-time feature is generally available for Windows 365 Enterprise customers. The feature first launched in preview in March, and it enables organizations to restore their cloud PCs from a backup to a previous state. Windows 365 is a subscription service that allows business customers to access their cloud PCs…

Microsoft’s Local Administrator Password Solution (LAPS) is a legacy Windows tool that IT admins can use to manage account passwords of domain-joined computers. The company has finally updated LAPS this year and plans to bring it natively into Windows in 2023. In this article, I’ll explain how to use LAPS and how it can help…

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced the launch of a new cloud computing region in Switzerland. The Europe AWS region will enable the company to create 2,500 full-time jobs annually in various industries such as engineering, telecommunications, facility maintenance, and construction through 2036. According to AWS, the new cloud region in the beautiful city of…