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Mar 7, 2021 10:52 EST with 0 comments The week brought everything from Ignite news aplenty – as expected – to a rather serious set of Exchange on-prem vulnerabilities, and the usual Windows Insider builds. You can find info about that, as well as much more below, in your Microsoft digest for the week of February 28 – March 6. An unfortunate Exchange CVE-2021-26855, CVE-2021-26857, CVE-2021-26858, and CVE-2021-27065, otherwise known as the set of vulnerabilities in Exchange on-premises servers that were used by state-sponsored Chinese hacking group HAFNIUM in its attacks th...

Panos Panay is pumped for the "next generation of Windows" Mar 2, 2021 18:16 EST · Hot! with 51 comments Today was the first day of Microsoft's spring 2021 Ignite conference, and in a brief, 14-minute fireside chat, Chief Product Officer Panos Panay and CVP and Product Manager Roanne Sones sat down to talk about Windows for a bit. Unfortunately, there's not much that they actually talked about. Panay did tease the "next generation of Windows" and say that he's pumped about it, but he also said that that's not for this event. In fact, one thing that wa...

Microsoft has announced that polls in Teams are getting some new features like intelligent suggestions, open text answers, and better mobile support. These features are coming soon.

Mar 2, 2021 10:48 EST with 3 comments Microsoft's spring Ignite event is set to begin today, and a bunch of major announcements are already out there. Along with them, Microsoft has revealed the February updates to Teams for education users. Many of the features announced here were also mentioned in the announcements from Ignite, including the new dynamic view, presenter mode, Microsoft Teams Connect, and more. Other features weren't mentioned there, though, like support for webinars with up to 1,000 people. Webinars are more interactive than video broadcasts, and attendees can ...

Mar 2, 2021 09:00 EST with 0 comments During its ongoing Ignite 2021 event, Microsoft has taken the wraps off a number of announcements, ranging from security to identity solutions which are either in preview or generally available. The Redmond giant also took the time to highlight some compliance enhancements and brand-new certifications it has made available. Starting with compliance, data loss prevention (DLP) is now supported for Chrome browsers and on-prem server-based environments such as file shares or SharePoint Server 2010, 2013, or 2016. Allowing for the extension of D...