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Microsoft has announced its plans to bid farewell to Business Connectivity Services (BCS) for Microsoft 365 customers in September 2024. After that date, IT admins will no longer be able to enable BCS through Settings or PowerShell commands. Business Connectivity Services is a feature that lets customers connect SharePoint solutions to external data sources like…

Microsoft has detailed a roundup of new capabilities added to its Teams collaboration service in September. These updates are designed to enhance various aspects of the platform, including webinars, chat and collaboration, IT administration and security, as well as the Teams Rooms and Devices experience. First off, Microsoft has released several updates to improve the…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…