Teams – Allow communication with specified trial tenant

As introduced few month ago, Microsoft has deployed a settings to block (default) communication with trial Teams tenants (which include Visual Studio ones) (see Teams – You can now block federation with trial tenants). It was first only configurable using PowerShell and now is also available from the Teams administration portal (Users\External access blade) Well, […]

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Teams – You can now block individual people from communicating with your organization

Teams is a powerful collaboration tool allowing collaboration and communication within your organization and external one. Teams administrators can control which external organization can communicate with yours. Until then there was no way to block specific individual(s) to communicate with your organization. Well, good news as now Teams administrators can enable a functionality which will

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Copilot – Admins will be able to manage multiple account to access Copilot in M365

Copilot has been a big trend for the past few months in Microsoft world. As an M365 service, Copilot can be used across signed in accounts in clients that allow you to sign in with multiple accounts. While you can use Copilot accross different accounts, the Copilot data protection is still applied which restrict data

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Intune – Hotpatch is becoming available for client devices

You may have been aware of a major overhaul for Windows Update to allow deploying Windows Updates without having to restart (see Hotpatch for Windows Server | Microsoft Learn). This ‘hotpatch’ capability has been introduced first for Windows Server (2022, 2025) running in Azure and then started to be extended to Windows Server running on-premises

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Teams – You now have more granularity for ‘mark as read’

As you know, you have the option to mark ‘as read’ all chat messages. Well, you now have a more granular option to ‘mark as read’ messages by choosing between All, chats or channels. This allows you to choose to mark as read specific message types while keeping others as unread – such as mark

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Windows – You can now use Windows Server 2025 in Pay As You Go

As you know, when installing Windows operating systems (client or server) you need a valid product key to enable to corresponding Windows Edition, also known as perpetual licensing. For Windows Server, the editions covered by such product key are either Standard or Datacenter. Well, that was true until Windows Server 2025 was released, as now

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Intune – Enable Personal Data Encryption for added security

As you know, Windows devices with OneDrive client allows your end-users to redirect their personal folders (Documents, Desktop….) to OneDrive. This allows leveraging some security capabilities provided by SharePoint Online/OneDrive, such as versioning or ability to recover complete OneDrive space in case of corruption or encryption by malware. This also replace the ‘old school’ roaming

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Outlook – You can now automatically decline conflicting invitations

This functionality is only available on Outlook Web Access (aka OWA, aka Outlook on the Web) and new Windows Outlook client. You can now set a setting to automatically decline conflicting request meetings. From time to time, you may receive request meetings which are conflicting with events already in your calendar; most of the time

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Outlook – Outlook client will be switched to the new Outlook

As you know, Microsoft has been working on developing a new modern Outlook client matching the UI from Outlook Web Access and aimed to provide the same features and functionalities. While this new Outlook client has been generally available for some time with option for customers to control whether to use the classic or the

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Exchange Online – New URL for accessing your mailbox with Outlook Web Access

As announced in April 2023 (Office 365 – New unified domain for Office 365 services), Microsoft has been unifying Office 365 services under the cloud.microsoft umbrella domain. Well, the transition process is in full swing and today a new service is transitioning: Exchange Online Outlook Web Access. Outlook Web Access URL is switching from https://outlook.office365.com/

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