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Microsoft has finally delivered a long‑requested capability for hybrid Exchange customers: you can now transfer the Source of Authority for Exchange mailbox attributes of directory‑synchronized users into the cloud and manage those mailbox properties directly from Exchange Online. The feature—exposed via a new mailbox property named IsExchangeCloudManaged—is available in Phase 1 as a preview and promises to remove the frustrating operational dependency on a “last Exchange server” used solely...

Microsoft is imposing a hard cap on outbound email sent from the shared onmicrosoft.com tenant namespace: mail from MOERA (Microsoft Online Email Routing Address) domains will be throttled to 100 external recipients per organization in any 24‑hour rolling window, with attempts beyond that returning an NDR carrying SMTP code 550 5.7.236; the change is being rolled out in staged waves keyed to Exchange seat counts beginning with trial tenants on October 15, 2025 and completing for the largest...

Microsoft has moved the revamped Message Trace experience in Exchange Online out of preview and into general availability, bringing a faster UI, new PowerShell cmdlets, extended query windows, and new operational constraints that will change how administrators automate and extract trace data from Exchange Online. The rollout began in mid‑June and was scheduled to complete in July; Microsoft also published a firm deprecation schedule for the legacy UX and cmdlets that requires action from...

Microsoft’s Exchange team has given hybrid administrators a clear-but-urgent migration mandate: switch to the dedicated Exchange hybrid app and update on‑prem servers now, or face temporary disruptions in September and October followed by a permanent enforcement that will stop rich coexistence features unless the dedicated app is configured. (techcommunity.microsoft.com) (learn.microsoft.com) Background / Overview Microsoft’s hybrid Exchange architecture historically used a shared...

Microsoft’s Exchange team has announced a sweeping, tenant-level restriction that will limit outbound email sent from the shared onmicrosoft.com namespace (MOERA — Microsoft Online Email Routing Address) to 100 external recipients per organization per 24‑hour rolling window, and the change comes with a staged rollout that begins with trial tenants in October 2025 and progresses to the largest tenants by June 1, 2026. (techcommunity.microsoft.com) Background / Overview Every Microsoft 365...

Microsoft’s Exchange team has taken a decisive step toward finally letting organizations retire the last Exchange server in hybrid environments by adding cloud-managed remote mailbox support — a per-mailbox “flip-the-switch” that transfers Exchange attribute authority to Exchange Online while leaving core identity in on‑premises Active Directory. (techcommunity.microsoft.com, learn.microsoft.com) Background Hybrid Exchange deployments have long carried a leftover operational burden: even...

Microsoft has quietly turned up the volume on in‑OS upgrade prompts for Windows 10, and since the August 2025 update many users report seeing intrusive, full‑screen notifications urging them to move to Windows 11 — reminders that can reappear even after a user explicitly chooses to “Keep Windows 10.” (pcworld.com, xda-developers.com) Background / Overview Microsoft set a firm end‑of‑support date for Windows 10: October 14, 2025. After that date Microsoft will stop delivering routine security...

If Windows 11’s July 2025 cumulative update (KB5062553) won’t install on your PC and you’re seeing rollback messages or error codes such as 0x800f0922, 0x80073712, or “Updates failed — your device is missing important security updates,” this guide walks through a practical, evidence-backed, step‑by‑step repair plan and explains what’s actually going on behind the scenes. It draws on Microsoft’s official KB notes, community troubleshooting threads, and independent testing to verify causes and...

Microsoft’s switch from the familiar Blue Screen of Death to a minimalist black crash screen has drawn attention — and a fresh wave of questions from Windows 11 users who now confront the so‑called Black Screen of Death. This change is cosmetic in part, but it also comes bundled with new resiliency tooling and guidance; whether you’re seeing a black crash screen at boot, at login, or an otherwise-empty desktop, this guide lays out verified, practical fixes — from immediate keyboard shortcuts...

Microsoft’s Copilot agent governance has slid into the spotlight after multiple, independent reports found that tenant-level policies intended to prevent user access to AI agents were not reliably enforced — a misconfiguration and control-plane gap that left some Copilot Agents discoverable or installable despite administrators explicitly blocking them. (cybersecuritynews.com) Background Microsoft’s Copilot ecosystem now spans Copilot Chat, Copilot Studio, Copilot-enabled experiences inside...

Microsoft’s vision of a future Windows where you “talk to your PC” is less a finished product than an aggressive bet on changing workplace culture — and whether that bet pays off depends as much on human behavior as on silicon and software. Background: what Microsoft is saying — and what PCWorld noticed In a recent interview and a pair of promotional videos, Microsoft executives sketched a future for Windows built around multimodal AI — an operating system that sees, hears, and responds to...

Microsoft is moving to strictly limit outbound email sent from the shared .onmicrosoft.com tenant namespace — commonly called MOERA (Microsoft Online Email Routing Address) — introducing a hard cap that will throttle messages sent from onmicrosoft.com addresses to 100 external recipients per organization in any 24‑hour rolling window, and rolling enforcement out in staged phases beginning with trial tenants on October 15, 2025. y Microsoft 365 tenant receives a default domain that looks like...

Windows PowerToys is one of those quietly powerful Windows add‑ons: a free, modular toolkit that can shave minutes off everyday tasks for heavy desktop users, but it’s deliberately optional — and for many casual users it’s a luxury rather than a necessity. Background / Overview Windows PowerToys traces its lineage back to the Windows 95 era as a grab‑bag of tweak utilities for “power users,” then went dark for years before being revived as an open‑source project in 2019. That modern...

Losing a precious document, photo, or a whole folder of work on a Windows 8 PC is never a small annoyance — it’s a sudden problem that demands clear, confident action and the right tools. For many Windows 8 users the practical question is straightforward: which recovery tools give the best chance of restoring lost files without making things worse? This feature walks through the five strongest data‑recovery options for Windows 8, explains when each shines, flags real risks and limitations...

Microsoft has quietly folded generative AI into Excel’s calculation engine with a native worksheet function — =COPILOT(...) — that accepts plain‑language prompts, reads cell ranges as context, and returns live, spillable outputs directly into the spreadsheet grid. Early previews show it can summarize text, classify rows, extract structured tables, and even generate placeholder data from within cells, but Microsoft and independent reporters are equally clear: this is a text-and-structure...

Zero-trust is not an add-on for AI pipelines — it must be baked into the fabric of how data, models and orchestration talk to one another. In a recent InfoWorld piece, the author laid out a metadata-driven, zero-trust MLOps reference architecture on Azure that combines Microsoft Entra ID, Azure Key Vault and Private Link, with orchestration handled by metadata in Azure Data Factory and Databricks — an approach designed to eliminate implicit trust and shrink the blast radius for cloud AI...

This week’s Xbox calendar (August 25–29) reads like a high-stakes festival for players: a canonical remaster of a defining shooter, a long-awaited console arrival for a runaway multiplayer hit, a faithful -- and controversial -- remake of a PlayStation-era classic, and a stylish Shinobi revival that leans hard into old-school action with modern polish. (news.xbox.com, en.wikipedia.org) Background / Overview Xbox’s late-August slate balances nostalgia and momentum. Microsoft’s platform is...

A Microsoft designer’s fan-made concept imagines Copilot as a truly wearable, audio-first assistant — ear-worn “stems” called the Copilot Veja that trade a heads‑up display for stereoscopic cameras, tactile controls, and spoken feedback, inviting a fresh debate about the future of on‑body AI, user agency, and privacy. Background The Copilot Veja concept is the latest in a string of personal design studies by Braz de Pina, a principal designer who works at Microsoft but explicitly frames...

The first hands-on benchmarks for the ROG Xbox Ally X suggest ASUS and Microsoft’s high-end handheld may have hit a rare sweet spot: substantial generational GPU gains, sensible power draw, and cooling that keeps temperatures well below what many larger devices produce under stress. Background ASUS and Xbox unveiled the ROG Xbox Ally family earlier this year, positioning two models for the consumer market: the standard ROG Xbox Ally and the premium ROG Xbox Ally X. Both devices are built...

Cyble’s latest weekly scan shows a dizzying pace of disclosures and exploitation: researchers tracked 908 new vulnerabilities in the last seven days and report that more than 188 of those already have publicly available proofs‑of‑concept (PoCs), tightening the window defenders have to respond. This sprawl of flaws spans endpoint and server software, network appliances, archive tools, and even the Linux kernel — and several high‑impact bugs are already being discussed, weaponized, or observed...