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Microsoft Loop, the company’s new online collaboration app that launched in public preview earlier this year now integrates with two popular Atlassian products, Jira and Trello. Microsoft Loop users can now add Jira and Trello boards to Loop pages and update them right from the app.  Jira, which is Atlassian’s flagship product, is a popular…

Microsoft has announced that it’s bringing the Copilot AI assistant to apps used by frontline workers. The company has launched a public preview of Copilot integration in its Dynamics 365 Field Service application. Microsoft explained that the new Copilot for Dynamics 365 Field Service helps frontline workers (such as technicians and retail workers) save time…

In the ever-evolving digital landscape, organizations are generating an increasing volume of emails and other electronic communications. Efficiently managing this growing influx of messages while maintaining compliance with regulatory requirements has become a critical aspect of modern business operations. One effective solution offered by Microsoft’s Office 365 suite is the archive mailbox feature. In this…

For IT administrators managing Office 365 and Exchange Server, having control over mailbox folder-level permissions is a crucial task. PowerShell, a powerful scripting language developed by Microsoft, offers a convenient and efficient way to control access to specific mailbox folders for users within an organization, including the calendar folder. In this article, I will detail…

Last month, Microsoft launched its new Bing Chat Enterprise service in preview for commercial customers. The company has announced on the Microsoft 365 Admin Center that the Bing Chat Enterprise service plan will be available for Microsoft 365 subscribers next month. Bing Chat Enterprise is an AI-powered chatbot that offers business-focused data privacy and governance…

Last year, Microsoft launched its new Syntex service that uses AI to organize large sets of data and unorganized content for searching. Now, the company has announced several new features and enhancements for Microsoft Syntex. Microsoft has reduced the cost of unstructured document processing from $0.10 to $0.05 per page. The company has also released…

By default, Microsoft Outlook prevents users from sending emails with attachments larger than 20 MB. This means that users may receive an error message while attaching files that exceed the allowed limit. In this guide, I will detail different methods to increase the Outlook attachment size limit. How to increase the Outlook Attachment Size Limit…

This Week in IT now has its own YouTube Channel! If you have been watching This Week in IT since it started more than a year ago, you will probably realize that home was the Petri IT Knowledgebase YouTube channel. We recently decided that it would be nice to give the show its own identity…

Earlier this month, Microsoft confirmed a major outage that affected Azure, Outlook, Teams, and other Microsoft 365 services. The company has now acknowledged that the disruption to its services was caused by a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. On June 5th, Microsoft tweeted about an outage that prevented thousands of users from accessing its…

An Office 365 tenant to tenant migration can be a complex undertaking that requires careful planning and execution. Whether due to mergers, acquisitions, or organizational restructuring, a tenant to tenant migration project involves transferring data, applications, and configurations while ensuring minimal user disruption. In this article, I will guide you through the essential steps to…