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Microsoft announced yesterday that it would deprecate the distribution list migration feature in the legacy Exchange admin center (EAC) in February 2023. The company recommends customers to use a manual conversion process to move distribution lists to Microsoft 365 Groups. Back in 2017, Microsoft introduced the distribution list migration feature to let organizations upgrade their…

A question none of us like to think about too much is what we would do if a natural or man-made disaster took out Office 365 and disrupted service for an extended period. The good news is that the way Microsoft has built out Office 365 into datacenter regions helps to limit the effect of any outage, but the fact still remains that something bad could happen. What would you do then?

Microsoft is getting ready to block access to OneDrive and SharePoint Online from Internet Explorer (IE 11). The company recently posted a message in the Microsoft 365 admin center to inform customers that this change will begin rolling out in mid-January 2023. Last year, Microsoft 365 apps and services dropped support for Internet Explorer 11….

Microsoft has released cross-tenant migration capabilities for Exchange Online. The latest update brings new cross-tenant mailbox migration and cross-tenant OneDrive migration features for commercial customers. Specifically, the new features provide a faster and cost-effective solution to help organizations migrate user data between tenants. The cross-tenant mailbox migration feature lets IT admins move end users to…

Microsoft launched today the Digital Contact Center Platform, a new flexible and collaborative contact center solution. The new service brings together Microsoft Teams, Dynamics 365, Power Platform, and Nuance conversational AI, and it provides intelligent tools to modernize the customer care experience. “With the Microsoft Digital Contact Center Platform, contact centers are equipped with modern…

Microsoft has shared a roundup of improvements made to its Teams collaboration service in October 2022. The major highlights of this release are suggested replies for group chats, pop-out support for shared content in meetings, new Teams-certified devices, and management features, so let’s dive into it. First up, Microsoft detailed new chat and collaboration features…

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Microsoft is getting ready to release an update for the Outlook for Windows client that will let users store their Signature settings in the cloud. The company has been testing this feature with Office Insiders in the Beta channel for quite some time to incorporate user feedback before making it generally available for everyone. Microsoft…

Microsoft has announced that its OneNote desktop app is now available to download on the Microsoft Store. Microsoft’s UWP version of OneNote (also known as OneNote for Windows 10) will no longer show up in the search results, but the app will continue to work until it reaches the end of support deadline in 2025….

Image Creator, the new AI-based art generator tool that Microsoft announced at Ignite 2022, is now available in Microsoft Bing. The new Image Creator app is only rolling out in preview to Bing in select markets, with an integration with Microsoft Edge to follow later this month. Powered by OpenAI’s DALL-E 2 technology, Image Creator…