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  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…

Microsoft Teams is getting a new update that will let users temporarily unmute their microphones during a meeting. Microsoft has announced that the “Press to unmute” feature is rolling out in preview to the Teams desktop app. The Microsoft Teams desktop app already supports a dedicated button and a keyboard shortcut (Ctrl+Shift+M) to toggle between…

  Last week, Google acknowledged a new issue in Microsoft Teams preventing some Android users in the US from calling emergency services. Microsoft has recently rolled out an update to the Teams app via the Play Store that comes with a fix to address the emergency calling bug (via Android Police). The bug was first…

Microsoft has released a special ‘Hyper-V Server‘ core edition with every release of Windows Server Long-Term Servicing Channel (LTSC 2012 R2, 2016, 2019). This past summer, while Windows Server 2022 was being developed and finalized, questions arose amongst IT Pros (hey, that rhymes…someone set that to music right away) about the possibility of Hyper-V Server…