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With more than 115 million daily users of Teams, the platform is the communication hub for Microsoft 365. And today, the company is announcing a couple of updates that they hope will make the collaborating experience a little bit better with nearly 20 new apps for meetings coming to the Teams apps store. Microsoft is…

How Microsoft Advises Tenants About New Features During a recent discussion, I was asked why Microsoft seems to publish so many incorrect roll-out dates for new Teams features. While my gut feel was that it certainly seems like some Teams features are delayed, some evidence was needed to prove or disprove the case. When Microsoft…

Because it’s Friday the 13th, this edition of Short Takes looks at the Xbox Series X|S launch, the .NET 5.0 launch, a new Microsoft employee who created Python, a former Microsoft employee who stole $10 million from the company, and so much more.

Microsoft patches 112 bugs, including a zero-day for the Windows kernel.

Launched in 2019 for the U.S. Microsoft introduced Play My Emails in Outlook mobile (initially iOS, now for Android too) at the Ignite 2019 conference. I was excited at the notion of being able to process email in a different way. The promise was that a natural voice would generate an intelligent readout of messages…

Looking for a simple and easy way to delete content with PowerShell? Here you go.

Using the New-ADUser cmdlet and -Instance parameter, you can copy AD attributes from an existing user when creating new Active Directory user accounts.

Today is the day, Petri’s GET-IT User Management is happening right now and you can watch it here on Petri’s conference hub.

  In late October, Microsoft released a compliance assessment report written by Cohasset Associates to compare Microsoft 365 services against the requirements of U.S. financial regulations. The report covers SharePoint Online, OneDrive for Business, Teams, Exchange Online, and Skype for Business Online, but excludes Stream, OneNote, and Planner because these apps do not support retention…

UEBA can identify unusual activity and help SOC teams identify if there is a compromised entity or a malicious insider.

Petri’s GET-IT: User Management 1-Day virtual conference is a full day of free learning dedicated to technical user management and related content.

Microsoft’s new ‘Cloud PC’ remote solution for Microsoft 365 is moving closer towards retail availability.