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Cloud Discovery, Application Proxy, passwordless authentication, and more Azure Active Directory features coming to Microsoft 365 Business in April.

Microsoft is going to rebrand Office 365 Groups to Microsoft 365 Groups in the near future.

The new licensing guidance for Microsoft 365 security and compliance features is welcome, but as is probably inevitable, some inconsistencies exist that need to be probed and discussed, and hopefully resolved by Microsoft in the long run. Why do DLP policies for Teams need E5 licenses? Why does applying a default retention label to a SharePoint library need E5? There’s lots to discuss about issues Microsoft should fix.

Microsoft is finally increasing Teams calling to support 9 participant streams, up from 4 but well behind Zoom.

Microsoft announced that it is delaying disabling legacy TLS protocols by default in all its supported browsers.

Amazon has just released the preview version of its new container optimized OS

With the introduction of PowerShell Core and now PowerShell 7, the cross-platform capabilities of PowerShell have also brought new challenges. System administrators used to working on Windows systems that now operate cross-platform need to be able to handle permissions in similar ways.

Office 365 Sensitivity Labels are supported by Teams, Groups, and Sites, but some work is needed if you want to replace older text-only classification labels with Office 365 Sensitivity Labels. This article explains how to use PowerShell to update Office 365 groups with new sensitivity labels. The labels are then synchronized to teams and sites.

Microsoft is changing the path ahead for Windows 10X which means a new focus and Surface Neo isn’t coming anytime soon.

Active Directory authentication for Azure Files, which is now in preview, builds on Azure AD DS authentication over SMB by letting you mount shares created using Azure Files with Windows Server Active Directory (AD) credentials.

Microsoft’s Teams has quickly found itself at the center of the work-from-home conversation that has kicked up during the past month. The company reported that they added 12 million new users in a week last month and coming next month, they will roll out a highly requested feature.

Microsoft is not planning to have an in-person event until after July of FY2021 concludes and is re-thinking its entire conference strategy.