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Microsoft Teams Gets New Town Halls Experience, Retires Teams Live Events

Microsoft Teams continues to improve the meeting experience, and starting next month the collaboration platform is getting a new Town Halls feature with support for up to 10,000 attendees. The new virtual event experience will replace the Teams Live Events functionality, which is set to retire on September 30, 2024. With Town Halls, commercial customers…

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Microsoft Mesh for Teams Launching in Public Preview Next Month

Microsoft Mesh integration in Teams is set to launch in public preview in October. The upcoming release should bring a wave of fresh meeting experiences to Microsoft Teams users, including avatars, 3D meeting environments, spatial audio and audio zones, interactive games, and live reactions. Microsoft Mesh is a new mixed-reality platform that was announced back…

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Microsoft Planner to Add Support for New Personal Plans Next Month

Microsoft is gearing up to introduce support for Personal plans in Microsoft Planner. These new Personal plans will provide users with a more tailored approach to managing tasks, granting creators exclusive ownership and access to their plans. Microsoft Planner is a popular task management service that allows enterprise teams to create, assign, and organize work…

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New Outlook for Windows Now Available to Download on the Microsoft Store

Microsoft has announced that its new web-based Outlook for Windows client is now generally available for consumers. The new app is also available to download on the Microsoft Store for commercial customers, and it will be shipped in tomorrow’s optional update, as well as Windows 11 version 23H2. In a separate blog post for IT…

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Understanding Multi-Tenant Organizations in Microsoft 365

Multi-tenant organizations (MTOs) are a new feature in Microsoft 365 and Entra ID (formerly Azure Active Directory) that has reached the public preview stage in mid-2023. An MTO is a group of up to five Entra ID tenants linked together to offer your users seamless collaboration and the sharing of resources. In this article, I’ll…

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Microsoft 365 Copilot to Be Available for Enterprise Customers on November 1

Microsoft is gearing up to launch Microsoft 365 Copilot to enterprise customers, with a scheduled launch on November 1. The company announced this morning that this AI-powered assistant will be accessible to specific Microsoft 365 business and enterprise plans, with a pricing set at $30 per user per month. Microsoft 365 Copilot is powered by…

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EU to Reportedly Push Ahead with Microsoft Teams Antitrust Probe

The European Commission is gearing up for a formal antitrust investigation into Microsoft’s contentious bundling of Teams with its Office 365 suite. According to a report from Bloomberg, the EC is preparing a statement of objections to send to Microsoft in the coming months. In July 2020, Slack filed an anti-competitive complaint against Microsoft with…

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Microsoft Details Roll Out Plan for New Outlook for Windows Client

Microsoft has unveiled its strategy to replace the classic Outlook desktop application, but the transition won’t be a swift one. In a recent announcement, the company confirmed that this monumental shift will be a gradual process, stretching over at least a couple of years for its commercial customers. Last week, Microsoft published a new YouTube…

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Microsoft to Sunset Outlook REST API v2.0 in 2024

In a notable shift for developers, Microsoft has revealed its plan to retire the Outlook REST API v2.0 in 2024. This decision stems from feedback received from customers and partners. The Outlook REST API is undergoing this transition to make way for a smoother and more secure future with Microsoft Graph. The Outlook REST API…

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Microsoft to Protect Copilot Commercial Customers Against Copyright Lawsuits

Microsoft has announced that it will defend customers of its AI-powered Copilot services from the daunting specter of copyright infringement lawsuits. This initiative, part of the company’s unwavering dedication to customer satisfaction, seeks to alleviate the concerns that have long loomed over the utilization of the Copilot tool for content generation. The Microsoft Copilot Copyright…

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