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Microsoft Teams is set to introduce a new feature that may help users reduce meeting fatigue and distractions. This new feature will let users hide their own video feeds from the meeting stage, while still keeping their video available for other meeting participants. “Currently, it is not possible to hide your own video on the…

It was a quiet month, as expected. But there were a few significant announcements. Most notably for enterprise IT, Microsoft Edge Cloud Site List Management is now generally available, and Microsoft is bringing some basic customization options to the Windows 11 Start menu. Microsoft Edge Cloud Site List Management now available First available in public…

Microsoft Teams has released a new update that brings some improvements to the raise-hand feature in meetings. As pointed out by Microsoft MVP Cameron Dwyer on Twitter, the Teams desktop client now allows meeting organizers to view the numerical order in which the participants have raised their hands. The Microsoft Teams desktop app introduced the…

Microsoft has announced the release of a new Skype update, which brings several new platform-specific functionalities. The biggest addition is a “Zoom-In” feature for video meetings that lets users quickly zoom in with their mouse or handy controls on the shared screen. The Zoom-In feature aims to improve the screen-sharing experience in the app by…

Microsoft Edge has started testing a new update that will allow users to capture screenshots from PDF documents. The feature was recently spotted by Reddit user u/Leopeva64-2, and it’s currently available for select Microsoft Edge Insiders in the Canary channel (version 99.0.1111.0). Microsoft introduced the new Web Capture tool in its Edge browser back in…

  In my role as Petri’s Community Magnate, I will be interviewing a variety of IT-savvy technology folks. Some of these will be Petri contributors; some will be tech-company employees; some will be IT pros. We will be tackling various subject areas in the form of 30-minute audio interviews. I will be asking the questions,…

Microsoft is planning to roll out a new immersive layout called “front row” on Teams Rooms devices in January 2022. The new meeting layout was originally announced back in June this year, and it aims to make the meeting experience more engaging between in-room participants as well as virtual attendees. The front row layout for…

Microsoft Teams has started rolling out end-to-end encryption (E2EE) support for one-to-one calls. The feature has been available in public preview since October, and it’s now available in the Teams desktop app for Windows and macOS. The end-to-end encryption (E2EE) feature encrypts Microsoft Teams calls at the source and then decrypts the information at the…

Microsoft has announced a slew of updates coming to Excel on the web this month. The company says that these new capabilities should make the web version of Excel “a more effective app for your daily work.” First of all, Excel on the Web now supports a new feature called “Searchable data validation list,” which…

In my role as Petri’s Community Magnate, I will be interviewing a variety of IT-savvy technology folks. Some of these will be Petri contributors; some will be tech-company employees; some will be IT pros. We will be tackling various subject areas in the form of 30-minute audio interviews. I will be asking the questions, the…

November 30th, 2022 will see Microsoft end availability for its Desktop Analytics solution. Microsoft said in a blog post dated November 5th: “To align our investments with this goal and the shift we have been seeing, we are announcing that we will retire Desktop Analytics on November 30, 2022. Over the next year, we will…

There are a lot of compliance-based services across Microsoft 365’s licensing options. At the highest level, a Microsoft 365 E5 subscription for a tenant gives administrators a ton of toys to play with. The naming, marketing, and placement of the capabilities you get can be fuzzy. In this article, we’ll tackle Microsoft Information Protection (MIP),…