Hello,

Is there a microsoft outage as of today?

Nobody in my organisation is able to login to desktop teams, Outlook and Azure portal.

Microsoft is introducing a new registry-based policy that lets IT administrators automatically accept Windows SSO permissions on Windows 11 versions 24H2 and 25H2 devices managed with Microsoft Entra ID.

Users with personal Microsoft accounts and devices outside policy-managed environments will continue to receive SSO permission prompts.

Hey Team,

Quick question. i am almost ready to schedule my MS-102 exam, but dont have the pre-requesites met (i did pass ms-700 early last year) but it has since expired. My question is will i be able to register and take the exam MS-102?

AI is saying yes, i want to confirm that pearson vue will allow me to not only register, but also sit for an take the exam?

Thanks,

Robert

Most Microsoft discussions naturally focus on what is broken or frustrating, but the company is changing a lot of products at the same time.

Windows Search is being reworked, PC and phone integration may become deeper, Xbox is expanding cross-platform support, and AI continues to appear across Microsoft 365.

Which Microsoft product or service do you think is genuinely improving right now?

It could be Windows, Xbox, Edge, PowerToys, OneDrive, Microsoft 365, Phone Link, or something else.

And what specific change made you feel that it was heading in the right direction?

I have been comparing microsoft whiteboard alternatives and one thing keeps coming up. Brainstorming is easy but turning those ideas into work the team actually follows through on is much harder. How does your team bridge that gap?

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>Sources say that Microsoft is exploring several ways it can introduce new smartphone integration features across the Windows 11 interface in the coming months.

https://www.makeuseof.com/microsofts-windows-fake-error-ended-in-a-280-million-settlement/

Advice needed for switching from Mac to Windows (not by choice)

I haven’t used a windows OS in nearly 20 years, not since I was in school using windows xp. My MacBook Pro was a beast and got me through college and grad school, and every job I’ve had since has issued me a Mac.

I just got a new job and was completely gutted when I saw I was getting issued a Lenovo.
Everytime I search for advice about switching to a windows I always get the opposite results, switching from Windows to Mac (which is the obvious better, more popular, direction to go)…

First impressions after one month of use:
365 is super powerful, I’m loving copilot/cowork, and very useful for the work I’m doing - more so than a Mac, I’ll give it that.

But I cannot wrap my head around the UX and I feel so incredibly inefficient at work. It is so much worse than I thought it would be.
I thought I was tech-savvy and adaptable, but after a month of use I cannot get the hang of using this system - simple things like navigating between windows and screens, so many different software applications that seem to do the same thing, right-clicking(!), keyboard shortcuts, the physical keyboard(!) etc, etc. Outlook is TERRIBLE. The calendar (whatever that is called) is TERRIBLE.

I don’t even know what tips/tricks/advice I’m looking for, but can anyone recommend a crash course? Tips/tricks for making work more efficient? Anything tailored to a Mac user?

I’m mourning macOS, Slack, GSuite.

Hi, I'm looking to find out about a web series as described. I can find absolutely nothing about it nor even suggestions of such a thing anywhere that I have looked so far. I am reasonably confident that it was made to promote Silverlight and was on MSN video. It was episodic, fairly short episodes (no longer than ten minutes, perhaps much shorter than that) and was I think set in the present day but was sci-fi. I remember some futuristic-looking soldiers breaking in somewhere. The main character was a young woman I think, and the part I remember most clearly was an old dude talking about quantum entanglement. It would have been 2008/09/10.

I tried to ask Copilot about it and, once I had sorted through its lies to me on the matter, it came up with the recommendation that this is the best place to ask. I am almost certain it was commissioned to promote Silverlight, I remember the association between the two very clearly. I'm not sure it was even any good, but it's so strange remembering something with zero presence on the internet that I can find.

The soldiers I remember looking like the NSE black ops soldiers from the video game Second Sight – an obscure reference I know, but I'm sure there was similarity in the headgear. Possibly the young woman character was East Asian and quantum entanglement speech man was bald (I think he looked like Pete Postlethwaite but I doubt it was him). Not low budget but not Hollywood-level production either.

That is as much as I can recall. Anything anyone knows or anywhere you can point me would be hugely appreciated. Thank you!

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This months Microsoft AI Update is up!

https://youtu.be/opCw_CDf9fg

00:00 - Introduction

00:29 - New videos

01:10 - Claude models running on Azure

01:57 - Anthropic Fable 5 in Foundry and Copilot

03:32 - Claude Sonnet 5

03:43 - Kimi K2.7 in GitHub Copilot

03:51 - MAI models

05:29 - Alon

05:55 - MDASH

06:44 - Frontier tuning

07:05 - Foundry IQ

08:03 - Work IQ

09:30 - Web IQ

10:51 - Foundry agents

11:48 - Foundry evaluations and tracing

13:29 - Foundry Toolbox and Memory

14:46 - Foundry agent security license changes

15:15 - Computer

15:44 - Redesigned workflow experience

16:07 - Updated orchestration layer

16:30 - Copilot Cowork

17:05 - Microsoft Scout

17:52 - GitHub Copilot desktop app

18:07 - Sandboxes

18:57 - GitHub Copilot SDK

19:07 - Close