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MC670435 – Beginning rollout in late September, users in your organization will be able to initiate a self-service trial of Microsoft Teams Premium using their Azure Active Directory (AAD) credentials with no requirement to input payment information, while providing complete visibility and control to their Microsoft 365 admin. Self-servicing allows end users to start the…

Microsoft’s GitHub has released a new GPT-4 powered version of its Copilot programming assistant. Copilot X expands the tool’s capabilities to add a ChatGPT-style experience to code editors, pull request support, and AI-powered answers for software documentation. GitHub launched its original Copilot tool back in 2022. The AI-based service is based on OpenAI’s Codex model…

For the end of its first quarter fiscal year, third quarter calendar year, Microsoft has reported $20.5 billion in GAAP and $22.3 billion in non-GAAP revenue with operating income at $5.2 billion GAAP, and $7.1 billion non-GAAP.

We’re increasing our coverage of VMware, System Center, and Windows Intune. Bloggers Brian Suhr and Damian Flynn will be leading the charge.

Microsoft has introduced several new features to its Microsoft Intune admin center. The company highlighted that these updates should help IT admins boost security and improve Defender Firewall management. Microsoft announced that Windows Defender Application Control (WDAC) Application ID tagging support is now available with Intune Firewall Rules policy. It enables customers to scope firewall…

Microsoft yesterday announced the launch of Adaptive Protection support in Microsoft Purview. The new solution leverages machine learning to help organizations detect potential malicious activities and mitigate insider risks with data loss prevention (DLP) controls. Last year, Microsoft announced a new product rebranding to bring together its Azure Purview data governance service with Microsoft 365…

MC439634 – Microsoft is improving behavior of Microsoft Purview Information Protection (MIP) content markings for headers and footers in Word to be more closely aligned with the behavior implemented by the Azure Information Protection (AIP) plugin for Office apps. This includes inserting header and footer content with the “in front of text” configuration so content markings…

Microsoft has released version 4.5.0 of the Teams PowerShell module. This update doesn’t bring any big changes but it includes a set of bug fixes and enhancements for IT administrators. The Microsoft Teams PowerShell module was released in April 2019. It allows IT admins to manage users, Teams, policies, and configuration through PowerShell. For instance,…

To say that September was a busy month for Office 365 is a bit of an understatement.

No code application building has long been the Holy Grail of app development. The idea behind no code development is to simplify the application development process to bring it within the capability of regular business users. No code development tools promise to reduce the complexity and costs of the application development process as well as…