Did you know: Microsoft offers its own native backup solution for Microsoft 365—designed to protect and restore your cloud data across Exchange Online, SharePoint, OneDrive, and Teams. Background Many customers have asked whether there exists a built-in backup solution for Microsoft 365. The
Effective May 2025, Microsoft Purview Data Security Investigations (DSI), a solution for rapidly identifying and mitigating risks from sensitive data exposure, is in public preview. Administrators will need to activate Purview PAYG billing and provision Security Compute Units to use this feature. The
Did you know: If your Azure Virtual Machines (VM), Dedicated Hosts, or Azure App Service reservations don’t offer the flexibility you need, you can trade them in for a savings plan (aka. Azure Savings Plan for Compute) with a term of one to three
Effective May 6, 2025, Azure Storage Actions is generally available, offering a fully managed platform to automate data management tasks for Azure Blob and Data Lake Storage. This platform helps organizations manage vast datasets efficiently, hence ensuring data security, protection, and governance while reducing
Effective April 8, 2025, Copilot in Azure is available. Accessible through the Azure Management Portal, Copilot is designed to assist you in answering questions, completing tasks, and exploring Azure services. What is Microsoft Copilot in Azure? Microsoft Copilot in Azure is an AI-powered
On April 16, 2025, Microsoft released new AI models on Azure AI Foundry with significantly improved capabilities for coding, instruction following, and long-context processing. This article looks at these new models in detail to help you with the decision on what models to use
Microsoft Azure is a powerful cloud platform that offers a growing collection of integrated services for organizations. This guide will help you navigate Azure’s licensing landscape effectively, ensuring you can optimize costs and maximize the benefits of its services. What is Microsoft Azure?
Starting May 1, 2025, Microsoft Azure AD External Identities is no longer available for new customers. While there are no service or billing impacts for existing customers, net new customers will no longer be able to create B2C tenants. This means that new customers will
Effective February 21, 2025, Microsoft has released a pricing calculator Excel-sheet for Azure Site Recovery (ASR). This calculator helps you estimate the total cost of ownership (TCO) for ASR scenarios. It provides a detailed cost breakdown of the different components involved in ASR for
Microsoft has delayed the mandatory switch of the license management of Dynamics 365 Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) applications in Microsoft 365 Admin Center to November 1, 2025, instead of the previously announced August 30, 2025. This gives organizations one more month for the transition to Microsoft 365 Admin Center. Also,
Until February 1, 2026, Microsoft is offering a 50% discount on Microsoft 365 E5 Compliance for all customers with at least one Microsoft 365 Copilot license. This promotion is available for customers who have previously purchased Microsoft 365 Copilot without Microsoft 365 E5 Compliance. Updated 2025-06-11: You now only need
For Windows 10, Windows Server 2016 & 2019, Microsoft 365 Apps were supposed to no longer receive security updates after October 2025. Microsoft will continue to provide security updates for Microsoft 365 Apps on these Windows products for three more years. These updates will be delivered through the standard update