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Empowering today’s digitally connected, distributed workforce requires the right culture and the right technology. At Microsoft Ignite, we’re sharing new innovations across Microsoft 365, Microsoft Teams, and Microsoft Viva to help everyone thrive.
Introducing Microsoft Places: Turn your spaces into places
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Welcome to Microsoft Syntex—Content AI integrated in the flow of work
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Making IT simpler with a modern workplace
There is a simple way to explain one of the biggest threats to any organization’s infrastructure. It’s just one word: complexity. Complexity is the absolute enemy of security and productivity. The simpler you can make your productivity and security solutions, the easier it will be for IT to manage and secure—making the user experience thatAzure AD B2B collaboration for hybrid organizations
Howdy folks, Many of you probably already use Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) B2B collaboration to work closely with your external partners. Since we launched Azure AD B2B capabilities a year ago, more than 800,000 organizations have used Azure AD B2B to collaborate with their partners, adding 8 million guest user accounts. Pretty amazing right?! One of the most frequent piecesPassword-less sign-in to Windows 10 and Azure AD using FIDO2 is coming soon (plus other cool news)!
Howdy folks, Today I want to tell you about some exciting new features we’ve been working on that I think you’ll be pretty excited about. Specifically, today we are announcing that: A limited-preview of Password-less sign-in using a FIDO2 security key will available in the next update to Windows 10 (coming this spring). Azure AD
Preparing for a new era in privacy regulation with the Microsoft Cloud
Microsoft has extensive expertise in protecting data, championing privacy, and complying with complex regulations. Microsoft adheres to a set of privacy principals and offers EU Model Clauses to all customers. We believe that the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is an important step forward for clarifying and enabling individual privacy rights. As the GDPR enforcement date nears,Big news in our drive to eliminate passwords: FIDO2 / WebAuthn reaches candidate recommendation status!
Howdy folks, At Microsoft we’ve been working hard to eliminate passwords since the very earliest stages of Windows 10. We’ve made great progress with Windows Hello and our mobile Authenticator app that’s available on iOS and Android. But to date we have not had an interoperable solution that works across all industry platforms and browsers.
Defend yourself from cybercrime with new Office 365 capabilities
With the growing presence and sophistication of online threats like viruses, ransomware, and phishing scams, it’s increasingly important to have the right protection and tools to help protect your devices, personal information, and files from being compromised. Microsoft already provides robust security for Office services, including link checking and attachment scanning for known viruses andThe Intune Managed Browser now supports Azure AD SSO and Conditional Access!
Howdy folks, If you follow the blog, you know that Azure AD Conditional Access (CA) lets you easily secure access to Office 365 and all the other apps you use with Azure AD. It is our fastest growing feature ever and more than 23M users are now protected by conditional access policies! As it’s taken
New Mail, Calendar, and People experiences coming to Outlook.com
Last year, we launched the Outlook.com beta to bring you a faster, smarter, and more personalized inbox. We’d like to thank the millions of people who opted into the beta over the last six months and provided valuable feedback. We’re wrapping up the first phase of the beta by rolling out the new Mail experience
Microsoft Teams turns 1, advances vision for Intelligent Communications
This week marks the first anniversary of the worldwide launch of Microsoft Teams. In that time, Teams has grown significantly in both new capabilities and customer usage. Today, 200,000 organizations in 181 markets and 39 languages use Teams, including A.P. Moller–Maersk, ConocoPhillips, General Motors, Macy’s, NASCAR, Navistar, RLH Corporation, and Technicolor. Teams for Intelligent CommunicationsAzure AD and ADFS best practices: Defending against password spray attacks
Howdy folks, As long as we’ve had passwords, people have tried to guess them. In this blog, we’re going to talk about a common attack which has become MUCH more frequent recently and some best practices for defending against it. This attack is commonly called password spray. In a password spray attack, the bad guys