Microsoft 365

Microsoft announced earlier this week several new features to Teams Phone to update the platform for modern cloud calling and to integrate calling better into people’s workflow. As many companies shift to hybrid work and more use collaboration solutions like Microsoft Teams, there has been a significant increase in phone use. To address this challenge,…

In this article, I’m going to show you how to customize endpoint security settings in Microsoft Intune. Including how to change security baseline settings, how to make sure devices are running a specific operating system version (or later), and how to configure Windows and iOS disk encryption settings. Microsoft provides a series of recommended security…

Because of the ever-evolving shift of the workforce and the workplace from ‘in-house’ to hybridization, hybrid work is reshaping how we work. The shift to more remote work has been disrupting, to say the least, across a multitude of organizations and industries. The least of which is the pillar of Information Technology in all companies….

September 7th, Microsoft released a security advisory for a remote code execution vulnerability (CVE-2021-40444) in Microsoft MSHTML, the rendering engine that Office apps use in Windows to display web content. Microsoft says that it is investigating reports of targeted attacks that try to exploit the MSHTML flaw using specially designed Microsoft Office files. The announcement…

Over the coming months, Microsoft will be re-branding some of what Microsoft calls ‘personal insights’ into your daily flow in Outlook. These include the Daily Briefing email that arrives in your Outlook Inbox every weekday morning, the MyAnalytics digest emails, and the Insights Outlook add-in. They will all receive updates to reflect the Microsoft Viva…

Microsoft’s Office 365 suite is the crown jewel of Software-as-a-Service. The productivity suite was launched a decade ago and now has more than 300 million paid commercial seats and today, the company is announcing a price increase for many of the tiers of the service. During the past decade, Microsoft has improved the suite by…

Microsoft recently announced that ‘Test Base for Microsoft 365’ has moved from the private preview stage to public preview. The company announced a set of new features that makes it easy to validate your company’s apps against the latest Windows client and server releases, from the comfort of a Microsoft-managed test environment. They’ve also taken…

This week, Microsoft is hosting its virtual Inspire conference where the company unveils solutions and tools for their partners to help them build services on top of the company’s platforms. For FY 2022, Microsoft is unveiling Windows 365, a new way to deploy Windows 10 or Windows 11. Windows 365 is a new service from…

When Microsoft released the first build of Windows 11 last month, the company also indicated that they would be updating Office to match the design of Windows 11. While the initial release arrived a few days later than anticipated, the company has started to push the visual update to those participating in the Office Insider…

AvePoint is going public today – a major milestone for any company and highlights that the Microsoft 365 ecosystem continues to grow.