Microsoft this week announced a preview of a new communications blocking capability for its Teams collaboration service called called "Information Barriers."
- By Kurt Mackie
- May 03, 2019
Ahead of its 2019 Build developer conference, Microsoft on Thursday detailed major improvements coming to its Azure cloud platform.
- By Becky Nagel
- May 02, 2019
Microsoft's new threat-hunting service for organizations, dubbed Microsoft Threat Experts, is now generally available -- without the "experts" part.
- By Kurt Mackie
- May 02, 2019
In an effort to become more "transparent" about the information it collects on users, Microsoft this week announced plans to reorganize its Office 365 ProPlus privacy controls.
- By Kurt Mackie
- May 01, 2019
A raft of security and compliance improvements are coming to Office 365 -- and specifically to Microsoft 365 subscribers -- according to Microsoft this week.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 30, 2019
Microsoft is pushing against conventional wisdom when it comes to organizations enforcing periodic password expirations to secure their Windows systems.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 29, 2019
Microsoft announced two new services aimed at Office 365 ProPlus users this week: the Office Cloud Policy service and Security Policy Advisor.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 26, 2019
Enhancements to SharePoint Online's News pages are coming soon, Microsoft said this week.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 24, 2019
Microsoft cloud customers with government and "pay-as-you-go" subscriptions can now take advantage of the new Azure Cost Management feature, which became generally available this week.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 23, 2019
Microsoft this week acquired San Diego, Calif.-based Express Logic, which provides real-time operating systems (RTOS) for industrial embedded and Internet of Things (IoT) devices.
- By Becky Nagel
- April 19, 2019
Users of Microsoft's Exchange Admin Center will soon have the ability to move Google G Suite calendar, contacts and e-mail data over to the Office 365 service, Microsoft announced this week.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 19, 2019
The Surface Hub 2S, the next iteration of Microsoft's large-screen conference room devices, will ship in June in the United States, Microsoft announced on Wednesday along with other coming product milestones.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 18, 2019
The latest release of Windows Admin Center, version 1904, reached the "general availability" (GA) milestone last week, although some of its included features are still marked as previews.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 16, 2019
Some users of Microsoft's e-mail services may have had their accounts exposed to "individuals outside Microsoft" over the past three months, the company admitted recently.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 15, 2019
System Center Configuration Manager 2007 (SCCM) and Forefront Endpoint Protection 2010 (FEP) will both lose support on July 9, 2019, Microsoft warned organizations this week.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 11, 2019
Organizations running Windows and other Microsoft applications can now take advantage of improved integrations with the Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 10, 2019
Early versions of the new Chromium-based Microsoft Edge browser for Windows 10 are now available to test for subscribers to the Microsoft Edge Insider testing program.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 08, 2019
Microsoft is building new and improved user controls into the next major Windows 10 feature update, which is set to arrive in late May.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 04, 2019
Several Microsoft management, security and compliance solutions hit their latest release milestones this week.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 29, 2019
Microsoft this week signaled to organizations that they should now be running Windows 10 version 1809.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 28, 2019