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Two new features arrive in Microsoft Teams in January and will roll out over the next week or so.

Microsoft has updated 10 role names in Azure AD and if your script is broken, this is likely why.

Surprising Play from Microsoft Microsoft has published an add-on to allow Google Calendar users to create and use Microsoft Teams meetings in the Google Workspace Marketplace. From the age of the comments, it seems like the add-on has been available since late November. However, Microsoft isn’t saying too much about the topic and the only… Read More

Microsoft is bringing a new history menu to Teams that will make it easier to jump back to a specific file, tab, or channel.

Big Files and Differential Sync Some excitement was generated, at least inside Microsoft, for the January 12 announcement that SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business now support uploads of files sized up to 250 GB. This is an increase from the previous 100 GB maximum announced in July 2020. The new capability is designed to… Read More

Faster synchronization, on-demand user provisioning, and attribute mapping come to Azure AD Connect and cloud provisioning.

Now Rolling Out Among the Message Center notifications posted before Microsoft closed for the holiday break is MC230569, which confirms that Advanced eDiscovery can decrypt content collected from SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business. The update is Microsoft 365 roadmap item 68705 and will roll out to tenants in January 2021. It’s already in my… Read More

Microsoft fixes a zero-day in its Defender antimalware software and issues a patch for a vulnerability that was publicly disclosed in December.

Microsoft is finally bringing Presenter view to Teams when you share a PowerPoint deck.

Microsoft will start to roll out a new feature that will make it easier to find information that was discussed during a meeting.

If there is one device in the Surface family that defines the brand, it would be the Surface Pro. The hardware was one of the first devices introduced many years ago and today, it continues to be the symbol of the brand. This is why it is a bit perplexing that Microsoft is updating the… Read More

History and open tabs sync starts to roll out in some regions for users on the stable channel.

Microsoft will start rolling out its Lists app for iOS users this month and an update to OneDrive will make it easier to view PDFs.

The Azure Storage Explorer is one of my most regularly-used Azure tools aside from the Azure Portal itself. If you are not using it, I’ll give you some pointers in this post on where to install it but also how to be the very first to know if an update is available.

Removing Puzzlement Last month I reported my puzzlement about Microsoft’s announcement of priority accounts. I couldn’t figure out what value these accounts brought to the table, especially as they were targeted solely at tenants with more than 10,000 accounts with more than 50 active Exchange Online users. My report was based on details in a… Read More