Friday, December 13, 2024

30 new posts across 21 Microsoft websites since Tuesday, December 10, 2024

Copilot for Microsoft 365

Boost your productivity with Copilot agent builder in Business Chat

Hi everyone! I have an exciting update for this week’s blog. As a Copilot Product Marketing Manager, I’ve been exploring new ways to enhance productivity and streamline our workflows. Recently, I had …

Thursday, December 12, 2024

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Microsoft 365 Blog

The latest on AI at work: December 2024

Every organization is looking to maximize their AI ROI, and we want to help. Each month, we’ll share how customers are using Microsoft 365 Copilot and agents to transform work and business processes, …

Thursday, December 12, 2024

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Microsoft Copilot Studio Blog

Explore agents pre-built for you in Microsoft Copilot Studio

With Microsoft Copilot Studio, you have a comprehensive tool to easily create, manage, and deploy a variety of agents. Agents use AI in the background of Microsoft 365 Copilot to automate and execute …

Tuesday, December 10, 2024

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Teams Blog

Introducing External Camera Support for iPads in Microsoft Teams

The use of iPads in the workplace has surged, with many professionals and executives favoring iPads for their portability and strong battery life. However, when it comes to video conferencing, users p…

Tuesday, December 10, 2024

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What’s Next for Accessibility in Microsoft Teams

With Microsoft Teams, our goal is to deliver a platform where individuals and organizations can succeed without barriers. By prioritizing accessibility, we not only address the needs of individuals w…

Thursday, December 12, 2024

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New Teams optimization for VDI now Generally Available in Citrix environment

Today Microsoft is pleased to announce that our collaboration with Citrix on the new Teams optimization architecture based on the Slimcore media engine has reached 100% availability.This is a major mi…

Thursday, December 12, 2024

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Exchange Team Blog

Update on Client Access Rules Deprecation in Exchange Online

In September 2022, we announced that we will start the retirement of Client Access Rules (CARs) in Exchange Online. Since then, CARs have already been retired for tenants without active rules. CARs wi…

Tuesday, December 10, 2024

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SharePoint Blog

Most widely used SharePoint Framework ISVs from the Store - November 2024

We are excited to see the continuous growth on the submissions of the SharePoint Framework (SPFx) solutions to the app source and on the usage of the SharePoint store for extending experiences for Sha…

Thursday, December 12, 2024

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8 Components of SharePoint Information Architecture

What is Information Architecture (IA)? IA is the practice of organizing, structuring, and labelling content in an effective and sustainable way. It ensures that information is easy to find, manage, a…

Thursday, December 12, 2024

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Viva Connections Blog

Building employee experiences for Viva Connections with Power Apps cards

We are excited to announce general availability for using Power Apps cards as an extensibility option for the Viva Connections. This means that you can surface Power Platform powered experiences direc…

Wednesday, December 11, 2024

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Microsoft 365 Insider Blog

Improve learners’ literacy skills with AI-powered Reading Coach

Hi, Microsoft 365 Insiders! It’s Anoo Padte, Principal Product Manager on the Microsoft Education team. I’m excited to share with you that Reading Coach, Microsoft’s free AI-powered tool designed to p…

Tuesday, December 10, 2024

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Unplug this holiday season with these Microsoft 365 features

Hi, Microsoft 365 Insiders! There’s plenty to look forward to this month – lights, holiday foods, presents, celebrations, time with friends and family – but the best thing of all about December might …

Wednesday, December 11, 2024

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Microsoft 365 Developer Blog

Compute scaling in Azure Fluid Relay

Explore the journey of identifying and fine-tuning the optimal Kubernetes autoscaling configuration for Azure Fluid Relay. The post Compute scaling in Azure Fluid Relay appeared first on Microsoft 365…

Tuesday, December 10, 2024

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Microsoft 365 Blog - Tech Community

Microsoft 365 data residency offerings now available in New Zealand

We are excited to announce that Microsoft 365 and Advanced Data Residency (ADR) are now available for commercial customers in our new cloud region in New Zealand. Multi-geo Capabilities for New Zealan…

Wednesday, December 11, 2024

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We are retiring ‘Help me create’ feature from Microsoft 365 Web

We are retiring ‘Help me create’ feature from Microsoft 365 Web As part of our ongoing efforts to streamline and enhance user experiences, we will be retiring the ‘Help me create’ feature (shown in F…

Thursday, December 12, 2024

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Azure Blog - Identity and Access Management

Real-world success with continuous modernization

Take a look at three companies who invested in continuous, holistic modernization with remarkable success. The post Real-world success with continuous modernization appeared first on Microsoft Azure …

Wednesday, December 11, 2024

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Ask the Directory Services Team

Lost access to your Root CA in your 2-Tier PKI? Don’t worry, Use Cross Signing to Recover!

Hi there, this is Byron from the Microsoft Directory Service Support team. Today, I would like to share a new method to recover your PKI environment. Imaging how frustrating it would be if we lost our…

Wednesday, December 11, 2024

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Intune Customer Success

Updates to Beta APIs for Windows Endpoint security and Administrative templates

By: Julia Idaewor – Product Manager II | Microsoft Intune In 2023, when we began the migration for older Endpoint security policies, we recommended customers to take action to update their automatio…

Thursday, December 12, 2024

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Microsoft Security Blog

New Microsoft Purview features help protect and govern your data in the era of AI

Microsoft Purview delivers unified data security, governance, and compliance for the era of AI. Read about the new features. The post New Microsoft Purview features help protect and govern your data …

Tuesday, December 10, 2024

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Microsoft Defender XDR demonstrates 100% detection coverage across all cyberattack stages in the 2024 MITRE ATT&CK® Evaluations: Enterprise​​

For the sixth year in a row, Microsoft Defender XDR demonstrated industry-leading extended detection and response (XDR) capabilities in the independent MITRE ATT&CK® Evaluations: Enterprise. The cyber…

Wednesday, December 11, 2024

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Frequent freeloader part II: Russian actor Secret Blizzard using tools of other groups to attack Ukraine

Since January 2024, Microsoft has observed Secret Blizzard using the tools or infrastructure of other threat groups to attack targets in Ukraine and download its custom backdoors Tavdig and KazuarV2. …

Wednesday, December 11, 2024

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Convincing a billion users to love passkeys: UX design insights from Microsoft to boost adoption and security

Passkeys offer faster, safer sign-ins than passwords. Microsoft encourages users to adopt passkeys for improved security and convenience. The post Convincing a billion users to love passkeys: UX desig…

Thursday, December 12, 2024

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Power BI Blog

Power BI 2024 Holiday recap

Season’s greetings, Power BI Community! As we wrap up an incredible year, the Microsoft Power BI team is taking a break for December. All planned updates will roll out in January including the next Po…

Tuesday, December 10, 2024

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Public Sector Blog

Microsoft 365 Copilot GCC generally available starting December 13th: Empowering Public Sector Innovation – blog updated Dec 11th.

We’re excited to announce that Microsoft 365 Copilot GCC generally availability (GA) is Dec 13, 2024, for qualifying GCC environment customers. Also at GA, the Microsoft 365 Copilot Service Descriptio…

Wednesday, December 11, 2024

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Education Blog

Math Progress in Microsoft Teams for Education - globally rolling out and generally available

Today, we’re pleased to announce Math Progress, a new Learning Accelerator, is now generally available in Microsoft Teams for Education for all supported languages. Math Progress streamlines assignmen…

Thursday, December 12, 2024

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Planner Blog

What’s new for Microsoft Planner in December 2024

We’re excited to wrap up the year with some major updates, including the rollout of the new Planner for the web, portfolios, and Project Manager agent, to name a few. Customer feedback continues to in…

Tuesday, December 10, 2024

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Viva Insights Blog

New Microsoft Copilot Analytics Features Now Available – November/December 2024

In conjunction with the announcement that Viva Insights will now be included in Microsoft 365 Copilot at no additional charge as part of the new Copilot Analytics, we’re excited to announce several ne…

Wednesday, December 11, 2024

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Skype for Business Blog

Released: CU8 for Skype for Business Server 2019

Today, we are excited to announce the release of Cumulative Update 8 (CU8) for Skype for Business Server 2019. In addition to fixes for customer-driven bugs and security hardening improvements, CU8 br…

Wednesday, December 11, 2024

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Azure AI Services Blog

Join Our AMA on 12/12: Unlock the Future with Azure AI Agent Service

Imagine a world where AI agents seamlessly handle your most complex tasks, freeing you up to focus on innovation, strategy, or other areas more engaging to the mind than routine tasks. This future is …

Wednesday, December 11, 2024

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Building custom AI Speech models with Phi-3 and Synthetic data

Introduction In today’s landscape, speech recognition technologies play a critical role across various industries—improving customer experiences, streamlining operations, and enabling more intuitive i…

Thursday, December 12, 2024

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