ControlUp this week introduced DaaS IQ, a new offering aimed at taming the operational complexity and unpredictable spending that often come with large-scale Desktop-as-a-Service deployments, particularly in Microsoft Azure Virtual Desktop environments. The launch reflects a broader shift in enterprise IT toward automation-first management as organizations struggle to balance flexibility with cost control in cloud-hosted desktops. The tool provides analytics and performance insights across virtual desktop deployments, enabling IT teams to assess user experience, resource utilization and system health.
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Microsoft has outlined its March 2026 updates for Microsoft Teams, highlighting new artificial intelligence capabilities, meeting improvements and collaboration enhancements. The updates include expanded Copilot functionality to assist with meeting summaries, task tracking and message management. The AI features are designed to automate everyday tasks using Copilot with no coding required. Teams also automatically removes EXIF metadata from shared images, protecting privacy and location information.
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Microsoft has introduced a public preview of custom graphs in Microsoft Sentinel, aimed at improving how security teams visualize and analyze threat data. The feature allows users to create customized graph-based views of security data, enabling analysts to map relationships between entities such as users, devices and events. Powered by Fabric, these visualizations are designed to help identify patterns, investigate incidents and understand potential attack paths more effectively. With custom graphs, users can understand the blast radius, reconstruct real attack chains and spot hidden risks and anomalies.
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Microsoft has introduced support for private endpoints in Azure Maps, allowing organizations to access mapping services through private network connections. The feature, currently in preview, enables Azure Maps resources to be accessed via Azure Private Link, keeping traffic within a virtual network rather than routing over the public internet. The approach is intended to improve security by reducing exposure to external threats and limiting data movement outside controlled environments. With Azure Maps Private Endpoints, users will now have a secure bridge between Azure VNet and Azure Maps offering network isolation and compliance support.
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Microsoft announced it is enhancing declarative agents in Microsoft 365 Copilot with new capabilities powered by GPT-5.2, aimed at improving how AI agents understand and execute tasks. The updates enable agents to better interpret user intent, manage context across interactions and perform more complex, multi-step workflows. Declarative agents allow organizations to define how AI systems interact with enterprise data and applications using structured instructions and policies. The offers agent experiences that involve reasoning and multi-step tasks, tool usage and orchestration, document analysis and structured outputs.
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Commvault has expanded its Cloud Threat Scan capabilities with a layered detection approach designed to help organizations ensure data is free of malware before recovery. The update introduces multiple detection techniques to identify known and unknown threats within backup data. These include signature-based scanning as well as behavioral and anomaly-based analysis intended to detect more sophisticated or previously unseen attacks. Two complementary scanning models were also launched including Hyper Threat Hunting and Deep Inspection, to allow close collaboration across incident response and recovery.
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Quokka has joined the Microsoft Intelligent Security Association (MISA), a program that brings together cybersecurity vendors whose products integrate with Microsoft’s security technologies. The membership allows Quokka’s security platform, Q-scout to leverage Microsoft Sentinel and Intune to assess and manage risk across enterprise environments. Quokka said that by aligning Q-scout with Microsoft Security technologies, they are enabling customers to extend their security posture to mobile apps running across their ecosystem, allowing informed, risk-analysed decisions.
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Microsoft’s Windows Server 2025 is now supported in Amazon WorkSpaces, allowing organizations to deploy Windows-based virtual desktop environments using the latest version of the server operating system. This enables enterprises to run Windows Server 2025 as the underlying operating system for cloud-hosted desktops delivered through AWS’s managed virtual desktop service. The updated server support offers modern capabilities such as Trusted Platform Module 2.0 (TPM 2.0), Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI), Secure Boot, Secured-core server, Credential Guard and Hypervisor-protected Code Integrity (HVCI).
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Microsoft has introduced a feature called “Effective Settings” in Microsoft Defender, designed to help administrators better understand which security configurations are enforced on individual devices. The update provides visibility into the final set of security settings applied to a device after policies from multiple management sources are combined. Administrators can see the effective value of each security setting and its configuration source which eliminates silent gaps and reduces the risk of unnoticed exposure during attacks. The Effective Settings option is available under the configuration management tab, allowing security admins to use the feature to validate enforcement, troubleshoot conflicts and improve operational confidence.
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Microsoft is expanding artificial intelligence capabilities in Microsoft Planner by bringing AI-powered assistance to users on basic plans. The update introduces AI features designed to help users create, organize and manage tasks more efficiently within Planner, along with a rename of the existing Project Manager Agent to Planner Agent. The tools can assist with generating task lists, organizing project steps and summarizing plan details to help teams track work and deadlines. In the initial launch, Planner Agent will offer two major AI-driven features including status reports, automating the creation of status reports for plans and task execution, which allows users to assign a task to Planner Agent.
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Commvault announced a partnership with cybersecurity firm CloudSEK intended to strengthen enterprise defenses by integrating threat intelligence with data protection workflows. The collaboration will combine Commvault’s data resilience platform with CloudSEK’s artificial intelligence–driven threat intelligence technology. CloudSEK’s platform analyzes signals such as leaked credentials, exposed APIs and compromised vendors to identify early indicators of potential cyberattacks before they escalate into breaches.
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Commvault has expanded its identity resilience capabilities to include support for Okta, allowing organizations to better protect and recover identity data stored in the widely used identity and access management platform. The integration enables customers to back up and recover critical Okta configuration data, including users, groups, policies and application settings. If identity infrastructure is compromised or misconfigured, organizations can restore those components to a known good state using Commvault’s data protection platform. Key capabilities of the integration include accelerated recovery from identity disruptions, ransomware-resistant protection, streamlined recovery and unified identity resilience.
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