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Microsoft to Allow for Multiple Accounts on Teams

The long-requested feature to allow for multiple accounts on Microsoft Teams will be coming to users in December, company says.

November 4, 2020 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

Microsoft Teams users next month will finally get a feature many have been asking for: the ability to add multiple accounts to the company’s flagship unified communications platform. As first reported by OnMSFT.com and ZDNet, the feature will allow Teams users to add additional accounts, change between accounts and organizations and change their profile pictures, […]

Microsoft Announces Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare

Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare provides healthcare organization with a suite of new tools designed to help them recover from the COVID-19 crisis.

November 2, 2020 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

Microsoft has launched the Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare to provide healthcare organization with a suite of new tools designed to help them recover from the COVID-19 crisis. The new offering, announced last week, includes “provides trusted and integrated capabilities that deliver automation and efficiency on high-value workflows as well as deep data analysis functionality for […]

Microsoft: Iranian Hacking Group Targeting World Leader Conferences

Microsoft says Iranian hackers are targeting a high-profile security conference expected to be attended by heads of state and world leaders.

October 28, 2020 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

Iranian hackers are allegedly targeting a high-profile security conference expected to be attended by heads of state and world leaders, according to Microsoft. The upcoming Munich Security Conference and the Think 20 Summit in Saudi Arabia are being targeted by cybercriminal organization Phosphorous, which is masquerading as conference organizers to target more than 100 high-profile […]

Microsoft Says Teams has 115 Million Daily Active Users

Microsoft says there are now more than 115 million daily active users on Microsoft Teams, representing a 50% bump from what the company reported in April.

October 28, 2020 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

Microsoft says there are now more than 115 million daily active users on its flagship unified communications and collaboration platform Microsoft Teams, representing a 50% bump from what the company reported in April. That surge is largely due to the rise of remote and hybrid work and distance learning, both of which require a collaboration […]

Microsoft, Salesforce Partner on New Teams Integration

Microsoft and Salesforce have patterned on a new integration that allows users to bring customer and case records from Salesforce to Microsoft Teams.

October 26, 2020 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

Microsoft and Salesforce have patterned on a new integration that allows users to interweave customer and case records from Salesforce within the Microsoft Teams app. The integration will be offered to Sales and Service Cloud customers with Enterprise or Unlimited edition at no cost and aims to bring customer data typically stored in a customer […]

Microsoft, Honeywell Announce Integration to Help Industrial Customers

Microsoft and Honeywell have announced a partnership that combines Honeywell’s applications with Microsoft’s cloud platform for industrial customers.

October 23, 2020 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

Microsoft and Honeywell have announced a partnership that combines Honeywell’s applications with Microsoft’s cloud platform for industrial customers. Specifically, the partnership is an integration of the AI-driven autonomous controls of the Honeywell Forge enterprise performance management software with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Field Service. This is designed to give customers access to operating data like workflow […]

Intelligent Noise Suppression Coming to Microsoft Teams Calls

Microsoft is planning to add real-time AI-based noise suppression that can automatically remove unwanted noise during video meetings on Microsoft Teams.

October 20, 2020 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

Microsoft is planning to add real-time AI-based noise suppression that can automatically remove unwanted noise during video meetings on Microsoft Teams. According to Microsoft’s 365 roadmap, the feature will automatically remove unwelcome background noise during meetings by analyzing a person’s audio feed and using specially trained deep neural networks to filter out unwanted noise like […]

Microsoft Releases Azure Defender for IoT in Public Preview

Azure Defender for IoT is designed to help protect and monitor industrial and critical infrastructure that depend on those devices.

October 16, 2020 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

Azure Defender for IoT, Microsoft’s cybersecurity solution for IoT and OT devices, has entered public preview to help protect industrial and critical infrastructure that depend on those devices. The new solution incorporates agentless, IOT/OT-aware behavioral analytics from Microsoft’s recent acquisition of CyberX. It addresses these risks by discovering unmanaged assets, identifying vulnerabilities and continuously monitoring […]

Microsoft Disrupts Trickbot Ahead of U.S. Elections

Microsoft says it teamed up with other tech organizations to take down ransomware and malware proliferator Trickbot to protect U.S. elections, industry.

October 13, 2020 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

Microsoft and an international group of tech industry organizations disrupted the botnet Trickbot, one of the world’s most prolific distributors of malware and ransomware. Through a court order from the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia and technical action in coordination with a group of technology organizations, Microsoft helped cut off key […]

Another Microsoft 365 Outage Makes it Three in Two Weeks

Another outage to key Microsoft 365 services hit users Wednesday afternoon, making it the company's third outage in three weeks.

October 8, 2020 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

If your team was unable to access some Microsoft 365 services Wednesday afternoon for the third time since the last week in September, you weren’t alone, as Microsoft confirmed yet another outage. The issues affected vital services like Microsoft Teams, Outlook, SharePoint, OneDrive and more. Those apps are crucial for communication for millions of workers, […]