Home & Pro editions of Windows 11, version 21H2 have reached end of servicing – October 10, 2023

Originally posted by Microsoft Oct 13, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments

As of October 10, 2023, Home, Pro, Pro for Workstations, and Pro Education editions of Windows 11, version 21H2 have reached end of servicing. The October 2023 security update, released on October 10, 2023, is the last update available for these editions. After this date, devices running these editions will no longer receive monthly security and preview updates containing protections from the latest security threats. Enterprise, Education, IoT Enterprise, and Enterprise multi-session editions for this version will reach end of servicing on October 8, 2024 and will receive security updates until then.

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Windows Autopatch availability within Microsoft Intune admin center

Originally posted by Microsoft Oct 13, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments

If you use Microsoft Managed Desktop, Windows Autopatch is now available as an additional option in Microsoft Intune admin center. Windows Autopatch is a service that automates Windows, Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise, Microsoft Edge, and Microsoft Teams updates, while offering security and productivity solutions. 

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Outlook: From the new Outlook for Windows, open Word, Excel, and PowerPoint attachments in desktop apps

Originally posted by Microsoft Oct 12, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments

From the new Outlook for Windows, users can now open Word, Excel, and PowerPoint attachments in their respective desktop apps by double clicking them.

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Word: Copilot in Word

Originally posted by Microsoft Oct 12, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments

Copilot in Word transforms your writing with efficiency and creativity—create, summarize, ask questions, refine, and elevate your documents. Copilot in Word can now help you to draft content, bring in specific information from other documents into your content, generate summaries, ask questions about your document, get ideas about specific topics, and even transform text into tables or provide suggestions for ways to rewrite your content.

More info: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/copilot-word

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PowerPoint: Copilot in PowerPoint

Originally posted by Microsoft Oct 12, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments

Copilot in PowerPoint is a tool that can help you create, edit and understand presentations. It can draft a presentation based on your topic or Word doc, or add slides and images for you. It can design using your template, organize your slides, and summarize and extract the main points from a longer presentation.

More info: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/copilot-powerpoint

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Policy deletion enhancement

Originally posted by Microsoft Oct 12, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments

With this update, admins with appropriate permissions can delete all associated alerts, cases, and users in scope when deleting a policy to help quickly reset and remove inactive policies. Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management correlates various signals to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, data leakage, and security violations. Insider Risk Management enables customers to create policies based on their own internal policies, governance, and organizational requirements. Built with privacy by design, users are pseudonymized by default, and role-based access controls and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy.

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Product-wide disablement of email to private message feature in Viva Engage (Yammer)

Originally posted by Microsoft Oct 12, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments

After 13th November 2023, Viva Engage (Yammer) will no longer support the creation of private messages through email. It will still be possible for users to post messages to communities through email.

Today, users can create private messages by emailing user alias+network name@yammer.com. This flow will soon stop working. Users must instead go to the Engage app or browser experience to create private messages.

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Pin based verification process for support callers

Originally posted by Microsoft Oct 12, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments

In 2020, we added a PIN-based verification step to our existing phone-based verification process, to better protect your organization. If you call support, the Microsoft support representative will send a verification code to your registered email or phone in your Admin Center profile. Provide this code to the support representative to grant them access to your organization’s account.

How this will affect your organization:

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New security capabilities of Event Tracing for Windows

Originally posted by Microsoft Oct 12, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments

Whether you’re in cybersecurity, IT, performance, or software development, improved resources can help you diagnose cybersecurity threats. While you could previously use Event Tracing for Windows for limited audit functions, nine events have recently been improved for better insight. Specifically, several security-related events now show Process ID and Process Start Key in the event schema, allowing you to confirm the causal process of these events. We’ve also increased the event version as events are updated over time, following the application compatibility policy.  
 

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Syntex OCR is generally available

Originally posted by Microsoft Oct 12, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments

With this update, the Syntex OCR feature will move from public preview to generally available.

When this will happen:

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Joao Ferreira

I've been working with Microsoft Technologies over the last ten years, mainly focused on creating collaboration and productivity solutions that drive the adoption of Microsoft Modern Workplace.