Microsoft 365

Microsoft Teams Room Pro Announced

Microsoft is bringing together Teams Rooms and managed Teams Rooms into a single, unified license. The service helps organizations deploy a Teams Room system optimizing video and audio experiences while also reducing the complexity of managing these rooms with a proactive service that automatically handles system updates, problem detection, and problem resolution. In addition, the …

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Windows 11 2022 Update Released

New capabilities for accessibility, focus, security, work, and collaboration are part of the new Windows 11 2022 update which is now available. The update is focused on bringing new features and capabilities into the Windows 11 platform. Some of these new capabilities include system-wide live captions, additional Snap layouts, and new Focus and Do Not …

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Viva Suite Expansions to Empower and Energize Employees

The Viva Suite is gaining two new modules and expanding the capabilities of several other modules to better help create engagement and empowerment within an organization. The first new module is Viva Pulse that helps in asking and providing feedback between managers and their team. This will integrate into a more company-wide service based on …

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Announcements from Microsoft Build

During Microsoft’s BUILD conference, Satya Nadella announced several new capabilities and features coming to the Microsoft Clouds. Some of these include Microsoft Dev Box using Windows 365, GitHub Copilot which uses AI to help write code, Azure for Operators to bring cloud capabilities to telecom companies, the ability to switch between a local Windows 11 …

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Microsoft Updates to M365 Suite

Microsoft is adding several new features and capabilities to the Microsoft 365 suite. First, Visio is gaining several new infographic and marketing templates to help streamline creating visualizations. Second, PowerPoint is gaining two important new features. The first of these new features is the Storytelling Mode that integrates Power BI and PowerPoint together to enable …

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Microsoft Viva Sales and Viva Goals

Microsoft’s Employee Experience platform, Viva, has two new modules available – Viva Sales and Viva Goals. Viva Sales combines CRM platforms like Salesforce, Dynamics, and others with Teams and the Microsoft 365 suite to better integrate customer calls, meetings, chats, and records. Viva Sales will be available in Q4 2022. The second new module, Viva …

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Microsoft Entra

Microsoft is growing and integrating its identity management tools into a unified product family called Microsoft Entra. Entra consists of three core pillars of identity tools – Azure Active Directory (Azure AD), Cloud Infrastructure Entitlement Management (CIEM), and a decentralized identity platform. Entra is designed to work across any cloud provider and on-premises environments. Two …

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Ampre Altra ARM Processors Come to Azure

High performance ARM processors are now in Azure with the Amprere Altra processors. The new Azure Virtual Machines will offer up to 64 virtual processors and up to 208 GiBs of memory, allowing the machines to handle many different types of workloads. Currently CentOS, Ubuntu, and Windows 11 Professional are supported for an operating system. …

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