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Microsoft has announced a new Restricted SharePoint Search feature for Copilot for Microsoft 365 customers. The new setting will allow administrators to control the SharePoint sites accessible to Copilot users within their organization. Microsoft has acknowledged that some organizations may have sensitive or confidential information stored in their SharePoint sites that they don’t want to…

SQL Server is a relational database. But what is a relational database exactly? Mike Otey, our resident SQL Server expert, explains in this article. What is a relational database? A relational database is a type of data storage mechanism that organizes data into tables where each table consists of rows and columns. It is typically…

A recent Microsoft post contained the news that Exchange Online uses Windows Server Core. That might be news to some, but not to anyone who’s been following the advice of the Exchange product group. Exchange Online doesn’t use virtual servers, follows a preferred architecture, wants to reduce the potential attack surface, and extract as much CPU as possible out of its servers. All good reasons why Windows Server Core helps.

Microsoft released yesterday the March 2024 Patch Tuesday updates for Windows 11 and Windows 10 devices. The latest update includes fixes for two critical vulnerabilities in the Windows Hyper-V virtualization technology. This month’s Patch Tuesday updates address 60 security flaws in Windows and other components. There are 18 remote code execution (RCE) vulnerabilities and several…

MC761236 – Coming soon: Microsoft is expanding the scope of the Get-CsOnlineUser cmdlet to include all unlicensed users in the Microsoft Teams PowerShell Module. Microsoft is also expanding the scope of the Teams admin center (TAC) Manage users page to include all unlicensed users. When this will happen: Microsoft will update Get-CsOnlineUser starting with the upcoming Teams PowerShell Module versions…

My transition to an iPhone is fine and I have mastered Outlook for iOS. That is, except for Contacts, which are a problem because Outlook must obey Apple’s rules. And I won’t even discuss searching.

MC703704 – Updated March 27, 2024: Microsoft has updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience. Note: If you are not a multi-tenant organization, you can safely ignore this message. This release features user experience improvements when Microsoft Teams users interact with users in another tenant that belongs to their organization (e.g., for conglomerates,…

There are two popular and mutually incompatible virtual disk file formats in common use today: VMware’s VMDK format and Microsoft’s VHD format. In order to attach a VHD disk to a VMware virtual machine, or vice-versa, you have to convert it first. This guide by virtualization and storage expert Tom Finnis explains how to use Starwind’s V2V Converter utility to do just that, with a detailed example explaining how to convert a VMDK virtual disk to VHD format and then mount it in a Windows system in order to edit the files it contains.

How can I configure a Public Folder to hold my default Contacts list in Exchange 2000/2003? If you’ve ever created Exchange public folders before, you’ve probably noticed that Exchange gives you a choice of what types of items can be stored in the public folder. One of the possible choices is Contacts. In this article,…

Microsoft’s SharePoint platform continues to grow at a healthy rate and the company has successfully transitioned the majority of its users to the cloud.