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Microsoft has started rolling out CART captioning support to its Teams collaboration platform, allowing meeting participants to view real-time captions coming from a certified third-party provider. This new capability is one of the top requested features by users and is a great alternative to existing AI-powered live captions available in Teams. “CART (Communication Access Realtime…

Azure Project Bicep, or just Bicep as Microsoft sometimes refers to it, is a new domain-specific language (DSL) for deploying cloud resources using infrastructure as code. If this sounds like Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates, then you’d be right. ARM templates can now be authored in Bicep or JSON. Infrastructure as code and ARM templates…

Microsoft is introducing the New Commerce Experience (NCE) subscription model for its Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) partners in January 2022. This change will raise the subscription price for Microsoft 365 monthly subscriptions by 20 percent, according to a report from CNBC. New Commerce Experience model to affect Microsoft Office 365 prices for monthly subscriptions The…

  In this article, I will show you how to change the Microsoft Teams background in meetings with your own custom image. Virtual backgrounds in Teams meetings let you hide your location and give users more privacy. Change Microsoft Teams Background in Meetings When Microsoft Teams launched, way back when, there were limited features for…

Microsoft is planning to roll out a new immersive layout called “front row” on Teams Rooms devices in January 2022. The new meeting layout was originally announced back in June this year, and it aims to make the meeting experience more engaging between in-room participants as well as virtual attendees. The front row layout for…

Microsoft is getting ready to make Windows Terminal the default terminal tool on Windows 11 machines. The Redmond giant has announced that this change will be rolled out to Windows Insiders in 2022 before making it generally available for all Windows 11 PCs. “Over the course of 2022, we are planning to make Windows Terminal…

Microsoft has released some important updates for its popular diagramming software Visio, with the web app getting the same organization charts tool that is already supported on the desktop. The company says that Visio users can now create organizational charts to visualize their team structure and they can also generate them automatically from data sources…

This month, a flaw in the Apache Log4j library causes panic, Microsoft patches 67 new CVEs, 7 of which are rated Critical. And Adobe delivers a boat load of patches to finish off the year in style. So, let’s get started! Apache Log4j remote code execution vulnerability Let’s start this month by talking about Log4Shell…

Microsoft Teams has started rolling out end-to-end encryption (E2EE) support for one-to-one calls. The feature has been available in public preview since October, and it’s now available in the Teams desktop app for Windows and macOS. The end-to-end encryption (E2EE) feature encrypts Microsoft Teams calls at the source and then decrypts the information at the…

Microsoft is planning to add a new Video creation tool to its unified Office app for Android. The feature will let business customers record short video clips, edit, and share directly from their mobile phones. The Office mobile app will add the new video recording functionality besides the existing Quick Captures options, which currently allow…

Microsoft has announced a slew of updates coming to Excel on the web this month. The company says that these new capabilities should make the web version of Excel “a more effective app for your daily work.” First of all, Excel on the Web now supports a new feature called “Searchable data validation list,” which…

WSL allows you to run applications natively as Linux processes on Windows. Learn how to install and use WSL on Windows Server here. Which versions of Windows Server support WSL? According to Microsoft documentation, the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) is available for installation on Windows Server 2019 (1709) and above. This includes the few Windows Server…