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With much of the corporate world now interacting via online chat, Microsoft is throwing a bunch of new features at its Teams platform, hoping that at least a few of them will stick. But chat bubbles?
08/05/2020
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Microsoft on Friday announced plans to pull back on some of Cortana's capabilities for U.S. consumers, while also promoting it as more of a personal digital assistant for Microsoft 365 business users.
08/03/2020
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Microsoft on Tuesday announced the rollout of Tasks in Teams on desktop clients for "a small group of users" with Microsoft 365 subscriptions.
07/29/2020
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The Windows Virtual Desktop (WVD) service now has Azure Portal integration, plus Audio/Video (A/V) Redirect support for Microsoft Teams client sessions, Microsoft announced on Monday.
07/28/2020
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Microsoft announced last week that its Lists applications are starting to arrive as early as this month for "Microsoft 365 business customers worldwide."
07/28/2020
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Microsoft last week described the addition of two monthly subscription-based options for organizations using Microsoft Teams Rooms videoconferencing devices, and it described a few management portal updates.
07/27/2020
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With cloud suites like Microsoft 365 scattering user data across multiple apps and services, application-aware backups and restorations are due for a surge in renewed interest.
07/27/2020
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Microsoft this week had lots to say about Microsoft Teams, which is getting "native" integration with Microsoft Power Platform tools, starting in preview form as early as next month, according to a July 21 announcement.
07/24/2020
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Microsoft this week announced a preview of Double Key Encryption for data created with Microsoft 365 applications.
07/23/2020
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Microsoft on Tuesday announced a public preview of Universal Print for Microsoft 365 subscribers.
07/21/2020
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Microsoft announced on Monday that the "new" Yammer Conversations Web Part for companywide chats is now available to SharePoint Online tenancies at the "general availability" commercial-release stage.
07/20/2020
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Microsoft's plans to put an early end to workflows for SharePoint 2010 Online, announced earlier this month, have elicited multiple complaints from IT pros, a petition to postpone the deprecation and a little bit of help.
07/18/2020
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Microsoft took its time on Word's ink editing features, making them generally available only recently. Now that Brien has put them through their paces in the real world, here's his take on their usefulness.
07/17/2020
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Microsoft this week repeated some patch warnings to IT pros, with a couple of milestones coming up soon.
07/13/2020
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With a new Cortana feature, Microsoft brushes off one of its old ideas for helping Outlook users stick to their tasks and answer their e-mails.
07/13/2020
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Microsoft outlined some recent security and compliance enhancements that are either already available or will be coming to Microsoft 365 tenancies using OneDrive and SharePoint by year's end.
07/10/2020
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Microsoft recently described new Teams features to come, with many of them aiming to make the remote videoconferencing experience feel more like an actual physical meeting.
07/09/2020
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
Microsoft's new personal finance tool hints at what's in store for next-generation Office applications, from more third-party integrations to subscription requirements.
07/09/2020
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Microsoft on Monday gave notice that it will be ending support this year for the "workflows" component of SharePoint 2010 Online, as well as deprecating that component for SharePoint 2013 Online.
07/07/2020
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An old flaw in Microsoft Office is being used in targeted attacks, according to researchers at Menlo Security on Tuesday.
06/30/2020
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
Working with absolute and relative cell references in Excel, plus retrieving a value from a second sheet.
06/19/2020
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Microsoft this week announced a few sundry news bits for IT pros maintaining Windows and Microsoft 365 environments.
06/18/2020
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Now that you know how to use Microsoft Word to make barcodes, the next step is to keep track of your barcoded items in Excel. Here's how.
06/17/2020
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Microsoft announced a couple of notable Excel features this month for people who keep track of financial matters.
06/15/2020
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In this three-part series, Brien shows how to use Microsoft Office to organize personal resources or create a small business inventory-tracking system. Step one: Generate barcodes in Word.
06/15/2020