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Today, Microsoft allows your users to submit feedback about Microsoft 365 products at your organization. Are you curious about what they’ve been saying? Your curiosity will soon be satisfied. This feedback will start to be visible in the Microsoft 365 admin center under the Health category, in the Product feedback node. This new experience will…

Microsoft has announced that it will start telling your users that they can also use Teams for personal use with a new banner notification in the activity feed.

Microsoft has shutdown its UserVoice feedback platform without warning, leaving many users out in the dark when it comes to hunting down issues.

While Microsoft Teams has proven itself during the pandemic of 2020 as a viable meeting platform, there are still some corners of the application that need a bit of polishing.

Microsoft is soliciting businesses for feedback about its Insider program to make it more beneficial to its corporate customers.

We asked readers for feedback, and boy, did you deliver. Read on to see some survey results and to welcome a few new authors to the Petri family.

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In Exchange 2000/2003, how can I configure a newsgroup feed from a live NNTP server? To configure an Exchange 2000 mail server to receive a live newsgroup feed from a live NNTP newsgroup server do the following: Write down the URL for the live NNTP server. These addresses usually (but not always) come in the…

Excel checkboxes turn a worksheet from a static grid into an interactive tool. Instead of typing Yes, No, Done, or Pending, I can click a box to mark an item as complete, approved, reviewed, or selected. In current Microsoft 365 versions of Excel, checkboxes are easier to use because I can insert them directly into…

Organizations have spent years navigating complex configurations to connect Microsoft Azure and AWS networks, despite cloud providers downplaying the technical barriers to multicloud adoption. Now, as AI workloads and distributed applications increase the need for fast, reliable cross-cloud connectivity, Microsoft and AWS are introducing a new service to reduce much of that networking complexity. Microsoft…

A new hire on the facilities team asks which calendar she should check for the building’s planned power outages. It’s a fair question. You open the shared calendars list to show her, but you just keep scrolling. “Facilities.” “Facilities Team.” “Facilities – Maintenance.” “FM Calendar (old).” “Building Ops.” And one, notably, called “Calendar2.”  Three of…

Microsoft’s July Intune update introduces several improvements to simplify day-to-day device management. This release includes enhanced Windows sync visibility, custom compliance settings for macOS, and improved control over Samsung firmware updates. The Microsoft Intune admin center now provides a more transparent sync process for individual Windows devices. This update allows administrators to monitor sync progress…