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New Microsoft Teams Rooms Features This Month

New Teams announcements include new devices, new audio and video features and new capabilities in Microsoft Teams Rooms.

February 2, 2022 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

Microsoft has announced several new features in Microsoft Teams, including new devices, new audio and video features and new capabilities in Microsoft Teams Rooms. The Teams Rooms capabilities feature front row, a new layout for Teams Rooms designed to enhance hybrid meetings and provide in-room participants with greater context of what is happening across various […]

Microsoft Adds New Settings To Configure Local User Group Membership in Endpoint Security

Setting enables admins to granularly manage the membership of built-in groups on the Windows platform to ensure users have correct privileges.

February 1, 2022 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

IT admins can now configure local group membership settings for Windows devices, enabling admins to granularly manage the membership of built-in groups on the Windows platform to ensure users have the correct privileges. In a Tech Community blog, the Intune Support Team said this new feature comes with a built-in template in the Endpoint security […]

Microsoft: This is Why Some Windows Devices Don’t Update

Devices need to be powered on and connected to Windows Update for at least eight hours to ensure a successful update, the company says.

January 31, 2022 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

Microsoft says devices need to be powered on and connected to Windows Update for at least eight hours to ensure a successful update. In a Tech Community blog on achieving better patch compliance, the company says it looked into why some Windows devices are not always full up to date, and one of the most […]

Microsoft Says It Mitigated Largest Ever DDoS Attack

Company says DDoS attacks skyrocketed in second half of 2021, as gaming, VoIP and ISPs were targeted heavily.

January 28, 2022 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

Microsoft says it recently mitigated a 3.47 Tbps DDoS attack with a packet rate of 340 million packets per second, which would make it the largest such attack in history. In an Azure blog, Microsoft says the November 2021 attack targeted an Azure customer in Asia that originated from about 10,000 sources from multiple countries, […]

Microsoft Teams Users Can Now Chat With Anyone Outside Their Organization

Users can now use Microsoft Teams to chat with any Teams user outside their organization, including with personal account users.

January 27, 2022 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

Microsoft Teams users can now use the popular collaboration and conferencing tool to chat with any Teams user outside their organization, including with personal account users. The company first previewed this ability at its annual Ignite event in November and rolled the feature out to users this week. “It takes a lot of communication to […]

Microsoft Warns of OAuth Phishing Campaign

Microsoft says the campaign uses OAuth request links to trick users into granting consent to an app that gives hackers access to email.

January 25, 2022 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

Microsoft says it is tracking a new consent phishing campaign that uses OAuth request links to trick users into granting consent to an app that gives malicious actors access to email accounts. In a series of tweets, Microsoft Security Intelligence says phishing messages misled users into granting permissions to an app called “Upgrade” that gave […]

Microsoft Now Disables Excel Macros By Default

Admins have several options to access the setting and set group policies to limit the organization's exposure to ransomware.

January 24, 2022 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

Excel is now a little safer for organizations to use as Microsoft is making a once optional setting that disables the usage of Excel 4.0 macros the default. According to a Tech Community blog, the setting—which was rolled out as an optional setting in July 2021—is now the default when users open Excel 4.0 macros. […]

CLIPr Launches Freemium Version for Microsoft Teams Customers

CLIPr has announced a new freemium program for Microsoft Teams that allows companies using Teams to use the tool up to four hours per month.

January 20, 2022 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

Video analysis and management platform CLIPr has announced a new freemium program for Microsoft Teams customers that allows organizations using Teams to begin using the tool for up to four hours per month and 50 hours of backlog. According to the company, the Freemium All-hands program for Microsoft Teams allows companies and their employees to […]

Apply These Emergency Fixes For Bugs Caused By Microsoft’s January Updates

Update fixes issues with VPN connectivity, Windows Server domain controllers, virtual machines and ReFS-formatted removable media.

January 19, 2022 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

Microsoft has released an out-of-band update that fixes multiple issues after installing the January Windows updates that impacted VPN connectivity, Windows Server Domain Controllers, Virtual machines and ReFS-formatted removable media. The updates were made available earlier this week, about a week after the January Patch Tuesday updates caused more issues for system administrators. However, there […]

AVer Now Has Three Cameras Certified for Microsoft Teams Rooms

AVer's devices join 30 other cameras from leading manufacturers like Logitech, Poly, Lenovo and Bose as certified to work in Teams Rooms.

January 12, 2022 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

AVer has added three videoconferencing cameras to its portfolio of Microsoft Teams-certified devices that strengthens the collaboration tech provider’s relationship with Microsoft. The AVer cameras now certified with Microsoft Teams include the VB130 enterprise-grade USB video bar, the CAM520 Pro2 enterprise-grade conference camera and the CAM130 4K conference camera. All are now optimized to work […]