Tuesday, April 15, 2025

20 new posts across 17 Microsoft websites since Friday, April 11, 2025

Office End Of Support Blog

Only 6 months until Office 2016/2019 end of support – are you ready?

Continuing to use software after end of support can leave your devices vulnerable to potential security threats, productivity losses, and compliance issues. That’s why it’s important to know that in j…

Monday, April 14, 2025

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Copilot for Microsoft 365

How we measured the business impact of Copilot on Sales at Microsoft

Measuring the business impact of your AI investments is a critical step in understanding how best to deploy and leverage AI for business transformation. With Copilot Analytics, you can customize repor…

Friday, April 11, 2025

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How to Prepare for a Successful Microsoft Employee Self-Service Agent Implementation

The Microsoft Employee Self-Service (ESS) Agent is a powerful tool designed to enhance efficiency by automating employee interactions, streamlining responses, and reducing the burden on HR and IT depa…

Friday, April 11, 2025

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Leading the Way with Copilot: April 2025

As anyone who has managed a team knows, there is a unique set of skills required to do it well. Managers often navigate heavy meeting schedules, oversee complex workstreams, mediate information betwee…

Monday, April 14, 2025

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Teams Blog

Teams Rooms on Windows device management consolidation in the Teams Rooms Pro Management portal

To meet customers’ needs for a one-stop destination to configure, monitor, and manage Teams rooms devices, we will be transitioning all Teams Rooms on Windows devices, irrespective of their licenses, …

Monday, April 14, 2025

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Exchange Team Blog

T-6 months: Exchange Server 2016 and Exchange Server 2019 End of Support

On October 14, 2025, six months from now, Exchange Server 2016 and Exchange Server 2019 will reach end of support. It’s critical to plan your upgrade now to remain supported and secure. After October …

Monday, April 14, 2025

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OneDrive Blog

Feature deep dive: Using PDFs in OneDrive and our journey thus far

PDFs are incredibly popular, used for everything from business documents to everyday tasks at home. In fact, over 100 billion PDFs were added to OneDrive and SharePoint in just last year – and its pop…

Monday, April 14, 2025

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Microsoft 365 Insider Blog

ActiveX disabled by default in Microsoft 365

Hi, Insiders! My name is Zaeem Patel, and I’m a Product Manager on the Office Security team. I’m excited to share an update to one of our default settings in Microsoft 365 that will help keep everyone…

Friday, April 11, 2025

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Microsoft 365 Developer Blog

Resolving Microsoft Graph PowerShell 2.26+ compatibility issues with Azure Runbooks

We know how important Azure Automation workflows and appreciate the critical role played by automation runbooks. Some customers have experienced issues with the release of 2.26.1 of the Microsoft Grap…

Friday, April 11, 2025

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Microsoft 365 Blog - Tech Community

Get the most out of OneNote with these little-known features

If you’re a OneNote fan, you’re aware of the many ways it can streamline and boost note-taking and content generation. But even the most experienced OneNote users among us might not be benefitting fro…

Monday, April 14, 2025

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Azure Blog - Identity and Access Management

Announcing the GPT-4.1 model series for Azure AI Foundry and GitHub developers

We are excited to share the launch of the next generation of the GPT-4o model series with GPT-4.1, 4.1-mini, and 4.1-nano to Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service. The post Announcing the GPT-4.1 model serie…

Monday, April 14, 2025

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Microsoft Security Blog

Explore how to secure AI by attending our Learn Live Series

Register to attend one or all our Learn Live sessions to learn how to secure your environment for AI adoption. The post Explore how to secure AI by attending our Learn Live Series appeared first on Mi…

Monday, April 14, 2025

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Azure Security

Creating better healthcare outcomes with Azure OpenAI Service and Azure AI Foundry

Read how healthcare providers are streamlining tasks, accelerating research, and improving patient care with Azure OpenAI Service and Azure AI Foundry. The post Creating better healthcare outcomes wit…

Friday, April 11, 2025

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Microsoft Power Platform Blog

Identify your readiness for AI-first development with agents and Microsoft Power Platform

It’s important for organizations to determine their level of readiness, or maturity index, for AI-powered, low-code tools. The post Identify your readiness for AI-first development with agents and Mi…

Monday, April 14, 2025

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Power BI Blog

New mapping and location analytics capabilities in Microsoft Power BI

The Microsoft Azure Maps visual in Microsoft Power BI enables all Power BI users to visualize and analyze their data on maps to uncover patterns and trends….

Monday, April 14, 2025

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Public Sector Blog

Discover the Future of AI in Government

Are you ready to explore the transformative power of artificial intelligence in the public sector? Join us as we delve into the key themes discussed in the recent seminar, “Microsoft AI for Government…

Friday, April 11, 2025

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Microsoft Viva Blog

People Science Researchers Reflect on SIOP 2025 Learnings

Last week several of our team members attended the 2025 Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP) annual conference in Denver, Colorado. This marquee event in our field brings togeth…

Friday, April 11, 2025

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Skype for Business Blog

T-6 months: Skype for Business Server 2015 and Skype for Business Server 2019 End of Support

On October 14, 2025, six months from now, Skype for Business Server 2015, Skype for Business Server 2019, Skype for Business 2016 (client), and Skype for Business 2019 (client) reach end of support. I…

Monday, April 14, 2025

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Azure AI Services Blog

General-Purpose vs Reasoning Models in Azure OpenAI

  1. Introduction Since Large Language Models (LLMs) have become mainstream, a wide range of models have emerged to serve different types of tasks—from casual chatbot interactions to advanced scientific…

Friday, April 11, 2025

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Evaluating Agentic AI Systems: A Deep Dive into Agentic Metrics

In this post, we explore the latest Agentic metrics introduced in the Azure AI Evaluation library, a Python library designed to assess generative AI systems with both traditional NLP metrics (like BLE…

Monday, April 14, 2025

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