Microsoft 365

Microsoft has unveiled a recent cybersecurity attack that allowed the threat actors to compromise Exchange Online. The attacker abused unsecured administrator accounts to gain access to the cloud tenants and created malicious OAuth applications to reconfigure the victim’s email server to send phishing emails. OAuth is an open-standard authorization protocol that enables users to share…

Earlier this year, Microsoft announced its plans to add support for Loop components to its Outlook email client. Loop components are already available in Microsoft Teams and the Outlook web app, and Microsoft has now started rolling out this feature in preview to Outlook for Windows. Microsoft announced the Loop application last year to support…

Microsoft is planning to make it easier for users to catch up on important Activity feed notifications in Teams. The Microsoft Teams desktop app is getting a new toggle button that will let users view all unread items in the Activity feed with a single click. The Activity feed in Microsoft Teams allows users to…

Microsoft has announced the integration of new apps and services in its Viva employee experience platform. The company is launching today a new app called Viva Pulse that enables team leads and managers to get regular employee feedback directly within Microsoft Teams. “Viva Pulse uses smart templates and research-backed questions to help managers pinpoint what’s…

Security researchers have recently identified a vulnerability in the Microsoft Teams desktop app. The security flaw could allow attackers to access authentication tokens and accounts with multi-factor authentication (MFA) enabled. According to the cybersecurity company Vectra, Microsoft Teams stores user authentication tokens in plain text on the device. It would allow threat actors with local…

Microsoft Teams is getting a new schedule send feature that allows users to choose a specific time to send a chat message. The feature was spotted by Petri Jämsen, a Microsoft 365 consultant, and it’s rolling out gradually in public preview for the Teams desktop and web apps. First announced at Ignite 2021, the schedule…

Ever feel the pain of switching between your Inbox and Calendar, maybe looking up an appointment, or even wanting to create one based on an email? Want to create a task right from your Inbox? Microsoft is saying ‘Your wish is my command, oh temporarily King of the Hill.’ 😉 With this new feature rolling…

When you look at your calendar before having a cup of coffee and all you see are meetings back-to-back for the day, you already know it’s going to be a marathon to make it to 5 P.M. Not only is this physically and mentally exhausting, at least in my experience, but it can also have…

Microsoft Teams is getting an improved search experience, which will allow users to see message threads right from search results. The updated search experience is currently available in public preview for the Teams desktop and web apps. Users can notice these changes in message results on the contextual search results and the Search results page…

Microsoft has introduced a new “update under lock” feature to streamline the update experience in its Microsoft 365 apps. The latest update enables users to install pending Office updates in idle or locked mode on Windows PCs. “Update under lock helps you reach compliance within your timeframes without disrupting your internal users, and potentially reduces…