Microsoft’s latest Insider drops — packaged as KB5064089 for the Beta channel and KB5064093 for the Dev channel — extend Click to Do with deeper Microsoft 365 integration, bringing Live Persona (profile) cards into the on‑screen assistant and adding a “Convert to table with Excel” action, while...
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Life Without Barriers’ recent security refresh shows how human‑services organisations can use integrated Microsoft tooling to both reduce risk and free frontline staff for the work that matters.
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Life Without Barriers (LWB), one of Australia’s largest human‑services...
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Microsoft has begun rolling out Windows Backup for Organizations, a tenant‑scoped, Intune‑integrated backup and restore capability designed to capture user preferences and Microsoft Store app lists so IT can restore a familiar Windows experience on Microsoft Entra‑joined devices during...
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Microsoft has quietly moved Windows Backup for Organizations from preview into the Release Preview channel with the optional, non‑security cumulative update KB5064080 (Build 22631.5837 / OS Build 22621.5840), pairing a cluster of targeted reliability fixes with a strategically important...
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Microsoft has begun a strict, time‑boxed push to move Exchange hybrid customers off a Microsoft‑managed shared service principal and onto a dedicated Exchange hybrid app in Entra ID — a change driven by a high‑severity hybrid vulnerability and enforced through short, scheduled EWS traffic blocks...
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...
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...
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...
Microsoft’s Viva Insights will soon put Copilot analytics directly into the hands of frontline managers, delivering team-scoped dashboards, out-of-the-box Copilot reports, and a publishing pipeline for analysts to surface tailored insights — a change Microsoft says will begin rolling out in late...
If you support Windows PCs for a solo or small law firm in Madison, the difference between “AI hype” and real productivity in 2025 comes down to one thing: can your tools plug neatly into a Microsoft-first stack without creating a client‑confidentiality migraine for partners or an audit headache...
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Manufacturers face a pivotal moment: cloud modernization paired with AI is no longer an optional efficiency play but a strategic imperative that can reshape product lifecycles, R&D velocity, and factory-floor operations at scale, as outlined in a recent industry brief that catalogs major...
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Microsoft’s August 2025 hotfixes for Skype for Business Server introduce a security-first change that will force organizations with hybrid deployments to act quickly: a new, customer-managed Dedicated Hybrid Application model replaces the long-standing Microsoft-managed shared service principal...
Microsoft’s move to let Windows 10 be deployed as a cloud-streamed OS through Azure-powered virtualization services marks a decisive step in putting the full Windows desktop inside enterprise cloud operations—and it changes how IT teams should think about provisioning, licensing, and security...
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Microsoft's vision for Windows is no longer limited to desktops or a single input device — it's a multi-layered strategy that stitches cloud-first hardware, on-device AI accelerators, and richer multimodal interactions into a single computing continuum meant to be more ambient, private, and...
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Microsoft’s Windows Office Hours returns on August 21, 2025, as a one‑hour, chat‑based Q&A focused on accelerating Windows 11 adoption, operationalizing Zero Trust, keeping fleets up to date, and moving workloads toward cloud-native models while respecting on‑premises and hybrid constraints...
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Microsoft today pushed Windows 11 Build 22631.5837 (KB5064080) to Insiders in the Release Preview Channel, a targeted cumulative update for Windows 11, version 23H2 that bundles a set of quality fixes, device-management improvements, and a notable enterprise addition: Microsoft’s Windows Backup...
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Today Microsoft pushed a new Release Preview build for Windows 11, version 24H2: Build 26100.5061 (KB5064081). At first glance this looks like another cumulative preview, but the blog post and supporting documentation show it carries a broad mix of items — from the continued staged rollout of...
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Microsoft’s August Patchday reads like a wake‑up call: a newly disclosed Kerberos-related weakness tied to the delegated Managed Service Account (dMSA) feature in Windows Server 2025 can — under the right conditions — let an attacker escalate to domain‑admin control, and a clutch of additional...
Microsoft has quietly but decisively closed one of the more embarrassing security gaps in everyday office life: printing confidential documents and walking away. The company's Universal Print service now offers a fully supported Pull print capability — marketed as Universal Print anywhere —...
Microsoft has moved Universal Print beyond preview with the general availability of Universal Print anywhere — a cloud-native pull print capability that lets employees send print jobs to a universal queue and only release them at a physical device after authenticating there, reducing unattended...