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Microsoft Forces More Artificial Intelligence onto Office 365 Tenants On May 13, Microsoft issued Office 365 notification MC212676 to inform tenants that a new Cortana daily briefing email was coming, saying: “The Briefing email from Cortana helps users start their day on track by surfacing information on upcoming meetings and outstanding tasks as well as…

In this article, I will show you how to use Microsoft Intune to create a compliance policy to keep remote workers secure.

Because $1.5 trillion is an awful lot of zeros, this edition of Short Takes looks at Microsoft’s new market cap milestone, why Microsoft won’t sell facial recognition to cops, Zoom trips over its own feet in China, Google plays the bully, and Sony announces a digital taco.

Azure Bastion provides an easy way to secure virtual machines that might otherwise be directly exposed to the Internet.

ISVs are sometimes criticized because their backup products don’t do a great job of handling Office 365 data. That might be true, but the real issue is the lack of APIs delivered by Microsoft. The available APIs are rooted in an on-premises heritage and don’t cover apps like Teams which knit together multiple cloud components. Future developments will increase the challenge.

SharePoint Auto Digest is about to make it much easier to bring news updates from SharePoint to the user’s inbox.

This month Microsoft addresses 129 vulnerabilities, including SMBv3 bugs, Flash Player, and remote code execution flaws in VBScript.

Microsoft has added the ability to block potentially unwanted apps to the Windows 10 Settings app.

Microsoft is rolling out an update for To Do that will make it a lot easier to use at work and at home.

Hackers are targeting unpatched Microsoft systems with publicly available SMBGhost PoC code.

The Graph is the Source for Report Data The usage reports available in the Microsoft 365 admin center give a reasonable picture of user activity within a tenant. However, they don’t deliver the kind of flexibility that a customized report can provide. Given that the data comes from the Microsoft Graph, it seems reasonable to…

Microsoft changes meeting limit size, again, adds more controls for backgrounds, and suggested replies are coming soon.