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Assigning Rights in a Sensitivity Label for External Communications with PowerShell

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Rights Management and Protection Sensitivity Labels are built using Microsoft Information Protection (MIP) and are available to Office 365 users with E3 or above licenses. When a label protects a file or message with encryption, the ability to decrypt the item to reveal its content is governed by the rights assigned to the recipient as…

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Fast User Switching Coming to Teams Desktop App in December

Last Update: Nov 19, 2024

One of the biggest challenges with Teams today is that if you are part of multiple tenants, switching between them is a logistical nightmare.

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Everything You Need to Know About Azure Infrastructure – October 2020 Edition

October, the first month in Q4 of the calendar year and Q2 of the Microsoft financial year, is also in the middle of planning for the next semester of development of Microsoft Azure (codenamed Cobalt).

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Windows Admin Center is Coming to the Azure Portal

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

At Ignite earlier this year, Microsoft announced that the Windows Admin Center is coming to the Azure portal.

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Everything You Need to Know About Office 365 – October 2020

While not quite as busy as last month, thanks to Ignite having come and gone, there were still quite a few notable announcements and updates that you should know about this month. As always, you can find all of our Office 365 coverage and tutorials here, but let’s dive in. On the Teams side of…

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Everything You Need to Know About Power Platform – October 2020

This month there was lots of fun with Flow and Power BI. I feel like my favorite child, Power Apps, was slacking. O’well. You know what is really crazy? I had a big glass of positivity while I was writing this so everything is so exciting. ? I never know what is going to happen…

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Everything You Need to Know About Windows – October 2020 Edition

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

This month’s big news is the release of Windows 10 version 20H2. It’s a minor update but it comes with some worthwhile improvements. Also in October, Microsoft released a new version of its Edge browser to the Stable Channel and Microsoft provides a workaround for the ‘Reset this PC’ bug in Windows 10 version 2004.

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Microsoft Launches Public Teams Preview Program

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Called the “Microsoft Teams Public Preview”, this update policy allows you to “explore and test upcoming features”.

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Botched Microsoft Update to Teams Retention Causes Customer Heartburn

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

No Data Compromised but Bad Day for Teams Retention Alarm bells went off on Thursday, October 29 when administrators in several tenants noticed that retention policies created to process Teams chat messages were apparently applied to Exchange mailboxes. Microsoft subsequently issued incident EX225368 “Admins may see Microsoft Teams retention policies unexpectedly update to Exchange Online…

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Paul Thurrott’s Short Takes: Microsoft Earnings Special Edition (October 2020)

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Because it’s the most wonderful time of the quarter, this edition of Short Takes looks more closely at Microsoft’s latest blockbuster quarterly earnings report, in which the firm posted a net income of $13.9 billion on revenues of $37.2 billion.

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Microsoft Teams UI Update Begins to Incorporate Fluent Elements

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Microsoft is slowly starting to bring Fluent elements to its popular collaboration tool, Teams.

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Excel’s new ‘Data Types’ Feature is the Apps Biggest Update in Years

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

If there is one app in the Office 365 suite that keeps people coming back to the productivity tools it is not Teams, but Excel. The spreadsheet application is easy to use, highly flexible, and in many companies around the world, worksheets are a structural part of the operational workflow. Last year, when XLOOKUP was…

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