Copilot in Outlook Gets a Revamp
Microsoft has given the Copilot for Outlook UI a revamp to make the UI easier to use. The new UI is certainly better and reveals the option to rewrite as a poem. Not that sending poetic emails will make much difference to anyone, but the revamp proves once again that good design makes a difference. Overall, the new UI is a sign that Copilot is maturing after its hectic start.
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Introducing Java, JS and Python support in Test Plans
We are excited to announce new capabilities in Azure Test Plans that will enhance your testing workflows. This feature is currently available in Public Preview. You can find instructions at the end of the article on how to request it for your Azure DevOps project. With this latest release, we are introducing the ability to […]
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Business Central 2025 wave 1 (BC26): Autofill fields with Copilot (New capability of Copilot)
Hi, Readers.The public preview for Dynamics 365 Business Central 2025 release wave 1 (BC26) is available. Learn more: Link. I will continue to test and share some new features that I hope will be helpful. Autofill fields with Copilot: Business value:Entering data can be time-consuming and error-prone, both for casual users of Business Central, as well […]
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Business Central 2025 wave 1 (BC26): Use new properties on a report layout (ObsoleteState and ExcelLayoutMultipleDataSheets)
Hi, Readers.The public preview for Dynamics 365 Business Central 2025 release wave 1 (BC26) is available. Learn more: Link. I will continue to test and share some new features that I hope will be helpful. Use new properties on a report layout: Business value:The new properties added to report layouts significantly enhance the flexibility and functionality […]
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The AI Revolution in Medicine, Revisited: The reality of generative AI in the clinic
Two years ago, OpenAI’s GPT-4 kick-started a new era in AI. In the months leading up to its public release, Peter Lee, president of Microsoft Research, cowrote a book full of optimism for the potential of advanced AI models to transform the world of healthcare. What has happened since? In this special podcast series—The AI Revolution in Medicine, Revisited—Lee revisits the book, exploring how patients, providers, and other medical professionals are experiencing and using generative AI today while examining what he and his coauthors got right—and what they didn’t foresee.
In this episode, Dr. Christopher Longhurst and Dr. Sara Murray, leading experts in healthcare AI implementation, join Lee to discuss the current state and future of AI in clinical settings. Longhurst, chief clinical and innovation officer at UC San Diego Health and executive director of the Jacobs Center for Health Innovation, details his healthcare system's collaboration with Epic and Microsoft to integrate GPT into their electronic health record system, offering clinicians support in responding to patient messages. Dr. Murray, chief health AI officer at UC San Francisco Health, discusses AI’s integration into clinical workflows, the promise and risks of AI-driven decision-making, and how generative AI is reshaping patient care and physician workload.
Learn more:
Large Language Models for More Efficient Reporting of Hospital Quality Measures
The Chief Health AI Officer — An Emerging Role for an Emerging Technology
AI-Generated Draft Replies Integrated Into Health Records and Physicians' Electronic Communication
The AI Revolution in Medicine: GPT-4 and Beyond
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Two Way Communication with the Form Component Control
The Form Component Control (FCC) is not new, but still awesome! I have an older blog where I wrote about the FCC and the meaning for PCFs. Lately I had a special request about a subgrid, and my answer was FCC. But I had to figure out first, how to let the form communicate with... Continue Reading →
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Microsoft Teams: Share contact information for people in Microsoft Teams channels
Users can now share contact information in Microsoft Teams channels, making it easier to reach collaborators. This feature is available globally and requires no admin action. For more details, see the provided link. Users can now share the contact information in the Teams channel to make it easy for others to reach out to collaborators. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 375627. When this will happen: General Availability (Worldwide, GCC High, GCC, DoD): This feature update is now available. How this will affect your organization: Users can now easily obtain contact information for users in Teams channels by simply hovering over the contact to view their details in the Profile Card. For more information, see Share a contact in a chat or channel. What you need to do to prepare: This rollout will happen automatically with no admin action required. You may want to notify your users about this change and update any relevant documentation as appropriate. Message ID: MC1036576
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Microsoft Viva Engage: External Networks are being modernized
Microsoft Viva Engage will modernize External Networks starting June 1, 2025. Admins must migrate to the new platform or face deprecation and data loss. Key steps include identifying network usage, exporting data, informing users, and checking for updates. Documentation will be provided before March 31, 2025. The modern Viva Engage user experience is coming to External Networks starting June 1, 2025, and you will soon be asked to initiate migration. In this communication, you will find high-level details about this change. Subsequent Message center posts will include additional details to plan your migration. In addition to the user experience changes, we are building modern external networks on top of native Microsoft 365 services just like your Engage home network experience. This increases the level of compliance and enhances the admin experience by enabling Microsoft 365 admin features that are available on tenants. IMPORTANT: When requested in future communications, admins must choose to migrate external networks to the modern platform. Failure to respond will result in the legacy external networks being deprecated and deleted. When this will happen: This retirement will occur on June 1, 2025. How this will affect your organization: The impact of this update depends on your usage of external networks. If you use external networks and fail to respond to our requests to migrate legacy external networks to the modern experience, then you will experience data loss. We recommend Engage admins review external network usage in their tenant. When migrating, you will need to communicate with your users. Users may be from your tenant, other tenants, or be using personal guest accounts. Changes to sign-in may be most visible for users with personal guest accounts. If you are considering future external network usage, you may want to wait to adopt the modern experience until after April 1st when we release External Networks v2. What you need to do to prepare: Actions you need to take if you want to migrate from the current implementation to the modern one: IMPORTANT: If you do not take action by June 1st, we will delete the External Networks as retired. Learn […]
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Microsoft Teams: Enhancing the default experience for frontline workers
Microsoft Teams is enhancing the default experience for frontline workers by making it easier to connect with their organization and introducing more intuitive app names. Changes include renaming the Connections app to ‘Home’ and adding the Engage app to default pinned apps. Rollout begins mid-April 2025 and completes by late April 2025. Note: If you are not using frontline worker functionality you can ignore this message. We are enhancing the default experience for frontline workers by making it easier to connect with their organization and introducing more intuitive app names. These updates include adding the Engage experience into the Tailored Frontline App experience. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 481280. When this will happen: General Availability (Worldwide): We will begin rolling out mid-April 2025 and expect to complete by late April 2025. How this will affect your organization: The Tailored Frontline App experience is getting an update. Users with an F license within your organization will see a new default Teams experience on desktop, web, and mobile. The new experience consists of two primary changes: The Connections app will now be named ‘Home’ with a new Home icon. The Engage app will now be added to the list of default pinned apps. These changes will not impact: Users with an E, A, or G license. Organizations with the Tailored Frontline App experience turned off (on by default). A frontline worker that has a custom app setup policy. A frontline worker that has an app customization applied to the Connections app and/or Engage app. A frontline worker with the Connections and/or Engage app blocked for them or their organization. These changes will follow the same rules that apply to the Tailored Frontline App experience. The images below depict the new default experience. Mobile image: Desktop image: What you need to do to prepare: View image in new tab View image in new tab You may want to notify your frontline users about this new experience and update your training and documentation as appropriate. If your organization desires a different app experience for your frontline, then we suggest creating a […]
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OneDrive: Ask questions about images using Copilot
You can now use Copilot to ask questions about images stored in OneDrive. This feature, requiring a Microsoft 365 Copilot license, will be available to commercial customers on OneDrive web starting late February 2025. Users can explain image contents and extract text from images. No admin action is required. Now, you can ask questions about images stored in your OneDrive using Copilot. Select up to 5 images and ask questions, like explaining the contents of an image or extracting relevant text from an image. This feature requires a Microsoft 365 Copilot license and will be available to commercial customers on OneDrive web. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 469499. When this will happen: General Availability (Worldwide): We will began rolling out in late February 2025 and expect to complete by mid-April 2025. How this will affect your organization: Users will be able to perform following actions on images: Explain the contents of the image: Users can select an image in their OneDrive and ask questions to get insights. For example, users can ask to describe what the image is or explain the concepts outlined in the image. Users can also ask Copilot to give insights on the selected image. Extract content from images: If the selected image has text, users can ask Copilot to capture the content of the image. For example, if the image is of a whiteboard, Copilot can turn the image into notes that users can take action on. View image in new tab What you need to do to prepare: This rollout will happen automatically with no admin actionrequired. Please notify your users about this change andupdate any relevant documentation as appropriate. Message ID: MC1036571
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Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention (DLP) for Endpoint: Mac device management support for additional MDM solutions
Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention (DLP) for Endpoint will support Mac devices managed by additional third-party MDM solutions beyond Jamf and Microsoft Intune. Public preview starts mid-April 2025, with general availability in mid-June 2025. Existing deployments are unaffected. Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention (DLP) for Endpoint is extending support to Mac devices managed by additional third-party endpoint/mobile device management (MDM) solutions other than the currently supported Jamf and Microsoft Intune. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 484137. When this will happen: Public Preview: We will begin rolling out on mid-April 2025 and expect to complete by late April 2025. General Availability (Worldwide): We will begin rolling out mid-June 2025 and expect to complete by late June 2025. How this will affect your organization: Admins can now use their choice of MDM solutions to deploy endpoint DLP to their managed Mac devices. What you need to do to prepare: There is no impact to any existing deployment to Mac devices. Users that are not using Intune or Jamf can now deploy Purview DLP for Endpoint with their MDM solution. Message ID: MC1036570
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Updates to App Governance Pre-Defined Policies in Defender for Cloud Apps
Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps will disable three pre-defined policies by default on April 21, 2025, to improve alert accuracy. The policies affected are related to data usage, unusual activity, and access to sensitive data. Users can re-enable these policies if desired. No immediate action is required. Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps is continuously working to ensure that our out-of-the-box (OOTB) threat protection capabilities within App Governance are as accurate and effective as possible. As part of this effort, we will be disabling by default three specific pre-defined policies that have been found to mostly trigger on legitimate activities, rather than alerting on malicious ones. This change is aimed at improving the overall accuracy of our alerts by relying on more accurate sources that provide a comprehensive view of potential attacks, rather than focusing on isolated anomalous activities. If you prefer to continue receiving these alerts, the option to re-enable them remains available. When this will happen: General Availability (Worldwide, GCC, GCC High): Rollout is simultaneous to all tenants and will happen on April 21, 2025 How this will affect your organization: These specific pre-defined policies within App Governance will be switched off for all customers by default. The policies being disabled are: Increase in data usage by an overprivileged or highly privileged app Unusual activity from an app with priority account consent Access to sensitive data This change will reduce the number of alerts triggered by legitimate activities, allowing you to focus on more accurate and relevant security notifications. The remaining policies and our advanced threat detection engines, which are always enabled and running behind the scenes, will continue to provide robust protection by correlating multiple pieces of evidence to identify potential attacks with higher confidence. If for any reason you prefer to continue receiving these alerts can re-enable the policies via the policy management interface. Additionally, we provide tools for customers to create custom policies tailored to their specific needs. For more details, please refer to the relevant documentation. For more details, please refer to the relevant documentation: Get started with app policies What you need to do […]
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New Health Issue in the MDI Sensors Health Issues Tab
A new health issue for VMware sensors will be added to the Defender for Identity Sensors Health Issues tab in March 2025. Organizations should monitor this tab for alerts on network configuration mismatches and take recommended actions. We’re introducing a new health issue in the Defender for Identity Sensors Health Issues tab to provide better insights into network traffic analysis and sensor configuration for sensors on VMware. When this will happen: General Availability (Worldwide, GCC, DoD): We will begin rolling out in mid-March 2025 and expect to complete by late March 2025. How this will affect your organization: You may see the following health issue in the MDI Sensors Health Issues tab: Network configuration mismatch for sensors running on VMware What you need to do to prepare: Monitor the Defender for Identity health issues tab for any new alerts and take the recommended actions as necessary. Message ID: MC1036566
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Viva Learning – Semantic search support for in-app Searches
Viva Learning is transitioning to an intent-based search, enhancing search results by understanding user queries semantically. This update, rolling out in March 2025, will personalize search experiences and improve content relevance. It affects various Viva Learning surfaces and supports all Viva Learning languages. Curators should enrich content attributes for better results. VivaLearning Search is transitioning to an “intent-based” search from the current“keyword-based” search. As a part of “intent-based” search, Viva Learning willunderstand the core intent of the user query and show learning results based onuser’s intent. Users can interact with Viva Learning Search in their naturallanguage and get relevant content much easier. Intent-based search personalizes the Search experience for the user. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 479749 When this will happen: General Availability (Worldwide): We will begin rolling out on mid-March 2025 and expect to complete by late March 2025. How this will affect your organization: Message ID: MC1036565
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New Outlook: “Automatically dismiss reminders for past events” will be on by default for Reminder window users
“Automatically dismiss reminders for past events” will be enabled by default in the new Outlook for Windows. This change will start rolling out in March 2025 and complete by May 2025. Users can re-enable past-due event reminders in Settings. More information is available [here](https://support.microsoft.com/office/add-or-delete-notifications-or-reminders-in-outlook-7a992377-ca93-4ddd-a711-851ef3597925). The existing Reminder feature in new Microsoft Outlook for Windows pops up over the user’s email or calendar to let them know a scheduled event is about to start. We plan to enable the “Automatically dismiss reminders for past events” option for all users, which will stop reminders from popping up for events that have already passed. You can re-enable your past-due event reminders by visiting Settings > General > Notifications > expanding the Calendar section > and deselecting Automatically dismiss reminders for past events. View image in new tab When this will happen: Targeted Release: We will begin rolling out late March 2025 and expect to complete by late April 2025. General Availability (Worldwide): We will begin rolling out late April 2025 and expect to complete by early May 2025. General Availability (GCC): We will begin rolling out early May 2025 and expect to complete by mid-May 2025. How this will affect your organization: By default, users will no longer receive Reminder notifications for events that have passed. What you need to do to prepare: You can learn more about the Reminder feature here: Add or delete notifications or reminders in Outlook #newoutlookforwindows Message ID: MC1036564
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Device Management Changes for Microsoft Teams Android Devices (Intune AOSP migration)
Microsoft Teams Android devices will migrate to the new Android Open-Source Project (AOSP) platform with a firmware update starting in Q4 2024. IT admins must manually verify the update initially, with automatic updates following. Policies need to be recreated in Intune for successful migration. Certain legacy devices will not be updated. Updated March 19, 2025: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience. Earlier this year, the new Microsoft device ecosystem platform built on the Android Open-Source Project (AOSP) was announced delivering state-of-the art security, reliability, and manageability with Microsoft Intune. Microsoft Teams Android devices will be migrating to this platform. The first step in the migration is a firmware update to Microsoft Teams Android devices in 2024. The firmware update will move devices from Android device administrator to Android AOSP management. When this will happen: A Preview program for select Microsoft Teams Android devices is targeted for Q2 of calendar year 2024. General release of the firmware update with the Android AOSP management stack will happen starting in Q4 of calendar year 2024 throughout Q1 of calendar year 2025 for all eligible Microsoft Teams Android devices. Eligible Microsoft Teams Android devices will initially receive a manual firmware update in Teams Admin Center so IT admins can manually verify the migration on their own schedule on select devices of their choosing. Eventually, the firmware update for migration will be scheduled as an automatic firmware update in Teams Admin Center. This automatic firmware update can be deferred for up to 60 days from first availability based upon the admin configured stages in Teams Admin Center. How this will affect your organization: The firmware upgrade, including the support for Intune management of Android (AOSP) devices must be accepted. It can be deferred for up to 60 days after it is first available. This can be done in the same way as other firmware upgrades in Teams Admin Center. Devices will continue to remain signed in after the firmware upgrade. Certain legacy devices will not receive the firmware upgrade for Android (AOSP) management in Intune. These devices will continue […]
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Attestation readiness verifier for TPM reliability
Consider a new tool to enhance Trusted Platform Module (TPM) reliability for Windows 11, version 24H2. It simulates verification of Measured Boot logs and proactively identifies security and reliability issues. Easily check for potential issues at the hardware and firmware layer, perform critical checks, and see the health state of devices at your organization in the Event Viewer Log. When will this happen: This tool is already available. How this will affect your organization: When you diagnose, prevent, or remediate issues, attestation readiness verifier for TPM reliability can help. With it, you can get better visibility into the local security health status of your Windows 11, version 24H2 devices. What you need to do to prepare: Access the attestation readiness verifier from the Event Viewer application: Navigate to Windows Logs > System. In the Actions pane on the right, select Filter Current Log. In the “Filter Current Log” dialog box, under Filter tab, set the Event sources to TPM-WMI events. Select OK. Finally, see Event ID 1041 for the boot health information. Read Additional information to learn more. Additional information: See instructions on how to use the Attestation readiness verifier for TPM reliability. Learn about TPM 2.0 – a necessity for a secure and future-proof Windows 11. Review the Windows 11 Security Book. Message ID: MC1036319
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Outlook: Read-only access to contacts within a PST file in new Outlook for Windows
With this update of support for .pst files (a.k.a. Outlook Data File) in the new Outlook for Windows, users will be able to browse and read contacts within a .pst file. Future releases of new Outlook will expand the support for .pst file capabilities. #newoutlookforwindows #pstfilesupport. Product Outlook Release phase General Availability Release date August CY2025 Platform Desktop Cloud Instance Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Created 2025-03-19 Roadmap ID 485755 Roadmap Link https://www.microsoft.com/microsoft-365/roadmap?id=485755
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Microsoft Edge: Intune policies in the Edge management service
Admins now can set Intune policies via the Edge management service, alongside the existing cloud policies. This enables admins to deploy both browser policies in the cloud and Intune policies from a single pane, making it easy to keep users safe and the browser workflow streamlined. This feature comes along with a new policy creation wizard that will streamline the creation process into a comprehensive, step-by-step flow. Product Microsoft Edge Release phase Preview Release date May CY2025Preview date: March CY2025 Platform Web Cloud Instance Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Created 2025-03-19 Roadmap ID 485799 Roadmap Link https://www.microsoft.com/microsoft-365/roadmap?id=485799
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Microsoft Teams: Slide control for presenters
Meeting or event presenters can now share control of slides with fellow presenters eliminating manual slide changes and maintaining a smooth flow during meetings or webinars. Product Microsoft Teams Release phase Targeted Release Release date May CY2025 Platform Desktop Cloud Instance Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Created 2025-03-19 Roadmap ID 484844 Roadmap Link https://www.microsoft.com/microsoft-365/roadmap?id=484844
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Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot Prompt Gallery – Share a prompt to a Microsoft Team’s team
Share custom prompts with members of a Microsoft Teams team from the Copilot Prompt Gallery in Copilot Chat, allowing team members to easily discover and utilize these prompts in Copilot Prompt Gallery. Product Release phase General Availability Release date April CY2025 Platform Web Cloud Instance Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Created 2025-03-19 Roadmap ID 483951 Roadmap Link https://www.microsoft.com/microsoft-365/roadmap?id=483951
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Comparing Copilot Chat included with Microsoft 365 to a paid Copilot license
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItcvkU528AI
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Unlocking the Future of Data Visualization!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=miIU-wmHvgM
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Unlock the Secrets of Certified Reports!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPWJZjDhWUg
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Hot Take: Yes, Power BI Belongs With Fabric. Fight Us About It (with James Bartlett & Ahmad Chamy)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5lzX3W9B9s
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