January 2025

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

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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

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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

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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’

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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

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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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