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Reddit SystemAdmin. Thanks @reddit2telegram and @r_channels.
Any ideas on faster fixes to a full storage mailbox in Outlook??
Client has 150,000+ emails in their Online Archive for a shared mailbox but the problem is that they're in the Deleted Items folder and not all of them can be deleted (Only those beyond a few years of age). I ran a retention policy but apparently they take up to 2 weeks to apply, Outlook rules keep crashing (probably because of the size), and they're not willing to get an Exchange 2 License. Honestly not sure on what I can do next, does PowerShell offer cmdlets for these types of things?? Thanks
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Kaseya
For people who've used Kaseya products, any insights to share? Technical usage, support, products prices etc.
Also interested about move overs from/to a kaseya products and the why.
Thanks for sharing!
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User cant open heic files - thought this was fixed already - apparently not?
User calls in to me today that they cant open the HEIC files someone sent them. The heck? Its 2025, I thought this was old news.
I grab the file, throw it on a brand new Windows 11 setup (24h2) and opens fine, no fancy anything.
This machine is 23h2 and refuses to open.
I grab my msstore link from ages ago, says its not compatible.
What gives, is it something that they fixed in later versions?
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So many cyber security software companies calling
I now get more calls about cyber security applications for an organization then I do duct cleaning these days. They're a dime, a dozen and they all offer a similar product which includes endpoint security, email, data governance, etc
Anyone else getting tons of calls?
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Why so many 'single pane of glass' applications?
Am I the only one who doesn't want all my eggs in a single basket?
I don't need a EDR + MDR + SIEM + XDR + Backup + RMM in one. I don't want that in the slightest. It's not difficult to log into separate tools. If I want them to integrate/trigger each other, that's what API's are for!
Every vendor out there is flabbergasted when I tell them a 'single pane of glass' platform is a negative mark for us.
Am I the problem? Am I taking crazy pills?
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Anybody switched from SCCM for patching?
Just curious to know if any of you have switched away from SCCM to another product for patching (windows and 3rd party), if so what did you move to and why?
Especially looking to hear from people who are in tightly controlled environments, e.g. patches can only be applied on certain days at certain times
Thanks
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I'm embarrassed and I need a grey beard. Access 97 is the bane of my existence. How the hell do you deploy it silently.
Please, please, ignore the fact we're still running Access 97 for now please. I need a better way of getting this bullshit deployed silently.. Right now I have just about everything automated but this stupid thing I can't figure out. Takes a decent amount of time to get it to actually work on Windows 11.
Finding documentation from before 2005 is a nightmare. I try to install "Microsoft Network Installation Wizard 2.1" and it just refuses to read any .LST or .STF files I throw at it saying its not from a "post-admin network image". What does that even mean?
We're a small company and our dev team sucks. Our 15+ year DBA refuses to touch his precious ancient SQL servers to update the database to something more sane. No one else can do his job so here I am with this shit.
6 years ago we hired a new CTO who blew millions of dollars on a rebuild of the entire application in Azure. It failed spectacularly, never worked at all, and now the whole company is scrambling to make sales and polish up this old turd of an application that runs on old SQL code and has our internal users still interacting with it on Access 97.
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Website Developer Taking Control of Client Registrar and Names Servers
This may be a sanity check post.
I'm working with a not small client whose web developer requested domain registration/hosting transfer of their domain to their 3rd party service.
I've held firm on the registration staying in house but I'm worried I may not be getting much traction on being able to keep the name servers. It's an O365 environment with several other systems requiring DNS from on high.
Is this a hill worth dying on?
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Why are signatures this complicated in Outlook?
We changed our company logo so the 3rd party marketing company made a new signature. They made it in Google docks. Our non-IT staff downloaded it word doc format, convereted it to PDF, uploaded to Sharepoint, opened the PDFin chrome, then copied and pasted it into the signature editor in Outlook.
FoR sOmE rEaSoN tHaT dIdN't WoRk
I downloaded the document as HTML from google docs' drop down menu that allows you to do so. The code is bulky crap with empty <p> tags and spans inside of <p> tags and is a nightmare, not to mention 60,000 characters.
I quickly rewrote it in notepad++
Mine is 48 lines, embedded BASE64 JPGs, absolute art. I throw it into
C:\\Users\\[username\]\\AppData\\Roaming\\Microsoft\\Signatures
NOPE. Outlook ignores it. Gotta make a dummy RTF file then a dummy TXT file with the same name for non-html email composing that we never do. Then you have to have a linked folder ending in _files even though we don't link to any files and that I legitimately don't know how to generate from scratch. It's some NTFS feature where it links a folder to an HTML file with CID tags or some nonsense.
So I created a dummy signature, left the RTF and TXT and folder alone, gutted the HTML they made, pasted in mine, works great. But wait...
OH GOOD, let's just ask the users to do that. And edit the HTML file to replace my name and phone number with theirs. That sounds reasonable. I'm sure they'll all do that. Management wanted this done in like 15 minutes so I don't think they'll approve me writing a .NET app to do this.
Fine, I'll just have them copy and paste from my HTML file since the code is super tidy. NOPE. Signature editor in Outlook Classic deletes just all <a> tags (so links) and makes it 319KB. So every single outgoing email and reply will be an extra 1/3 of a MB. Not acceptable.
How TF do you guys handle this company-wide? I know some third part software exists for this
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VPN device management is totally dying. Is Intune actually worth it?
So with the remote workforce hitting 70% across the industry, VPN-based device management is getting pretty outdated. Policy enforcement gets sketchy when users don't stay connected, software deployments take forever, and troubleshooting remote devices is a massive pain.
Intune's conditional access looks legit for cloud-based management, but did it actually fix your problems or just give you different ones?
What about configuration complexity?
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Little Black Box
Tracing network cables at work, switch to what drop, write down the switch port and the drop name. I’m updating NetBox because there’s no documentation. The network folks are, “well some of the equipment doesn’t belong to corp so we don’t have access to that gear.”
Weird answer.
Anyway, tracing cables and one black cable (98% are blue, a few white and a few black). Follow it down, loop, follow it up.
To the top of the rack? What’s this Little Black Box?
Internet search away! It’s an environment monitoring box. Checks air temp, humidity, and a bunch of other options.
No credentials. No one at corp knows about it. The Executive Secretary though, “ah old admin used it to monitor the computer room. He discovered the AC wasn’t working from an alert.”
Okay, so alerts are being sent somewhere. Need to bring it to my laptop, check the configuration, change the settings so a group email or monitoring tool gets the alerts and not some email for someone who’s long gone.
Fun stuff :)
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Our Epic integration vendor just ghosted us mid-project and I'm having a breakdown
So this is happening. Our "trusted" integration partner just went radio silent three weeks before go-live, their project manager isn't returning calls, and I'm pretty sure they've moved on to easier clients. Cool. Cool cool cool.
Context: I'm the IT director at a 200-bed hospital and we've been trying to replace our patient portal that literally still uses Flash. I know, I KNOW. Don't @ me. We got funding approved last year after our patient satisfaction scores tanked because people couldn't even log in to see their test results half the time.
Found this vendor who promised seamless Epic integration, showed us these beautiful demos, the whole nine yards. Signed a contract in January, paid the first milestone payment, and everything seemed legit. Their team was responsive, they knew all the right FHIR buzzwords, even had references from other health systems.
Then reality hit. The API calls started timing out randomly. Patient data was syncing but missing critical fields. Their "certified Epic integration" turned out to be a bunch of custom middleware that broke every time Epic pushed an update. When I asked about it, suddenly their developer who "built similar solutions for Mayo Clinic" was always in meetings.
Last month they missed two major deadlines. When I finally got their PM on the phone, he basically admitted they'd never actually integrated with our version of Epic before and were "figuring it out as we go." That's when I started drinking at lunch.
Three weeks ago: complete silence. Emails bouncing back. Phone goes straight to voicemail. I'm starting to think they just took our money and bailed.
Meanwhile, my CEO is asking for status updates, our chief medical officer is making jokes about our "state-of-the-art 1990s technology," and I've got 50 physicians who were promised a working patient portal by next month.
I'm sitting here at 11 PM googling "how to build Epic integration from scratch"...
Anyone know a good therapist who specializes in IT trauma? Asking for a friend who is definitely me....
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Fuckin' out of date dotnet everywhere
So I have end of life dotnet everywhere and it's causing me some headaches. The dotnet-core-uninstall remove powershell commands won't kill it either.
Does anyone have any automated way to kill this thing off? We don't have intune deployed so that's a nonstarter.
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fields, PreExecutionMessage and PostExecutionMessage, provide better transparency.
3. Microsoft Fabric will limit each workspace to a *maximum of 1,000 users* or groups across all roles (Admin, Member, Contributor, Viewer).
4. SharePoint Page Analytics will add features such as *long-term data retention, reporting by distribution lists, and export options*, starting mid-August 2025.
5. Policy alerts in Microsoft Purview will be *more customizable.* A new alert configuration page will let admins set frequency and define recipients for each alert.
**Existing Functionality Changes:**
1. Documents signed using *Adobe or DocuSign through SharePoint eSignature* will now be saved in the original folder where the signing started, not in the default "Apps" folder.
2. Microsoft will allow admins to *enable email notifications and policy tips independently* in SharePoint and OneDrive DLP policies. Currently, both settings must be enabled together.
3. Exchange Online cmdlets will show *changes to database property output*. For example, the Database property in the output of Get-Mailbox will change from: Database : APCP153DG038-db080 to a fully qualified path format: Database : APCP153.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM/7ad9dea1-26b7-4088-ad73-708c219faff6
4. Teams admins will need to complete a *Know Your Customer (KYC)* process before requesting new phone numbers. This includes submitting organizational details and supporting documents via the Teams Admin Center.
5. Microsoft is *changing the sender address* for Teams DLP Generate Incident Report emails. After August 20, 2025, only the address no-reply@temas.mail.microsoft.com will be used.
6. Starting August 25, 2025, *selected Microsoft Graph metered APIs*, including Teams chat export and meeting transcripts, will no longer be subject to usage-based billing.
7. The *Get-FederationInformation cmdlet* will return results only for the domain specified in the parameter.
**Action Required:**
1. The legacy Message Trace UI and cmdlets will be retired on September 1, 2025. Start using the new Message Trace experience and update any scripts that rely on legacy cmdlets to use their modern equivalents.
2. Starting July 31, 2025, the Microsoft Graph Beta API /deviceManagement endpoints will require either DeviceManagementScripts.Read.All or DeviceManagementScripts.ReadWrite.All permissions. Make sure to update your apps, scripts, or tools using older permissions to avoid disruptions.
**Retirement Postponed:**
1. The “Send me an email notification” action in Power Automate, which was originally scheduled to start failing 1% of the time on August 1, 2025, has been postponed .But switching to supported alternatives: “Send an email (V2)” from the Outlook connector or “Send an email notification (V3)” from the Mail connector is recommended.
Act now to stay ahead and ensure these updates don't impact you!
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Weekly 'I made a useful thing' Thread - August 01, 2025
There is a great deal of user-generated content out there, from scripts and software to tutorials and videos, but we've generally tried to keep that off of the front page due to the volume and as a result of community feedback. There's also a great deal of content out there that violates our advertising/promotion rule, from scripts and software to tutorials and videos.
We have received a number of requests for exemptions to the rule, and rather than allowing the front page to get consumed, we thought we'd try a weekly thread that allows for that kind of content. We don't have a catchy name for it yet, so please let us know if you have any ideas!
In this thread, feel free to show us your pet project, YouTube videos, blog posts, or whatever else you may have and share it with the community. Commercial advertisements, affiliate links, or links that appear to be monetization-grabs will still be removed.
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I have a 6 and a half years old burglary charge ...
Can I get a job I'm network with a 6 almost 7 year old felony , I'm planning on getting my comptia a + and ccna and was just wondering
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Windows Update brought back all Microsoft bloatware
I made an autounattend.xml file for our virtual machines (I have others, like for basic data entry type users, low hardware, etc.) basically stripping down all junk (it's for a VM for crying out loud!!) becase apparently some users always get a BSOD when running some VPN software and legacy apps on their computers but works just fine on VMs.
Anyways, after a fatal error with their VM I decided to delete it altogether and test my freshly made autounattend.xml file with the https://schneegans.de/windows/unattend-generator/ page. Everything worked but upon reboot I let it Windows Update do its business because I didn't want the user to have to wait ages for backlog pending updates. First reboot after applying updates and all the junk was there, apps such as Spotify (IT'S A VM!!!), Microsoft Solitaire, Climpchamp and whatnot. Oh and Skype, which is already EOL. The VM is supposed to run government legacy apps only, not even Office, Chrome or multimedia codecs are necessary, only a shared folder with the host to export generated CSV and other files.
What the heck Microsoft?
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Microsoft Remote Desktop
So with them getting rid of the Remote Desktop app. ( Version 10.2.4010) what is everyone else using? I just got a new laptop and I'm about to keep the old one. My love for this is it would re size the screen for each window.
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Blocked by Proofpoint – No response to delisting requests, what are my options?
Hi everyone,
We're currently dealing with an email delivery issue: our domain has been blocked by Proofpoint, and emails to certain recipients are being rejected.
We've submitted multiple delisting requests using Proofpoint’s "Check IP" tool, but we never receive any response or follow-up. It’s been several days, and it honestly feels like no one is reviewing the submissions.
We use IONOS as our hosting provider, and all other services accept our emails just fine — this issue is only happening with domains protected by Proofpoint.
Our SPF, DKIM, and DMARC records are properly configured, and we do not send spam or bulk emails. Our email usage is 100% legitimate and transactional.
Has anyone here gone through the same situation with Proofpoint?
What alternatives do I have without migrating providers or changing IPs?
Any advice or experience would be appreciated — we've followed all the "official" steps and submitted requests repeatedly, but so far... radio silence.
Thanks in advance.
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i feel like I'm working with a real-life Dwight Schrute
I have to say, it is really not funny in real life. Like holy F@#$2...
He is a micromanager who is not a manager.
he has the type of mindset that if you don't do it his way, you are doing it wrong.
you could do 95% of the work, and he will come over adjust some cables, adjust a some monitors, take a picture of the setup, and in his head he basically did the work (even tho no one ask him to do so)
Brother would start to update random confluence pages on Saturday and Sunday.
he would be creeping on everyone's ticket in the ticket queue.
He assigns tickets to you without asking or telling you if you have the time.
He is the type of person that if you were to make a mistake, even tho you fixed it before it affected any users, he would tell the manager in order to get good boy points.
Mind you, it is not like this guy is some IT god that would solve any issues or would get to the solution that no one could think of. His IT knowledge is on par with the rest of the team.
Our manager is chill in the sense that as long as you do your tickets and work on your project, he is not on top of you, but on the other hand, this guy always tries to pseudo-manage people.
I already confirmed this is not a me thing, and the other guys think the same thing.
I'm not a confrontational type of person, but this guy is getting to me; I'm about to start shit. I just want to rant a bit because it is starting to frustrate me.
Update: I forgot to add, based on his personality, I'm 100% sure that he is aiming to be the next in line for the manager position, so my fear is that anything I say or do could come back to bite me.
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On-prem to Cloud
I'm the sole IT for a business that is 100% on-prem with a 24/7 based business, we have machines running all day that require an interface with servers, and remote users who VPN and RDP. I took over this office and have slowly brought it to the modern era since COVID (they had Windows Server 2008 as a DC in 2019 when I took over). I'm hoping that you guys can either tell me that I'm right, or that I need to re-evaluate how the office is setup.
All of a sudden the C suite asked me about moving everything to the cloud (most likely from interacting with other company execs) and I started going through the numbers and workflow. From my point of view, there's almost no reason for us to go to the cloud for a couple of reasons:
\- Cost: We don't have a lot of servers. 6 physical servers, 1 is our main DC, 1 is a backup DC and file server, 3 are VM hosts, and 1 is a dedicated terminal server. A new server for us would run about 20k, but if we put everything into the cloud, with our usage, we would hit about 10k/year. We just did a full hardware refresh, so I don't expect to need to replace our servers for at least 5 years.
\- Workflow: We are a 24/7 operating business with users all over and we have machines that are also running 24/7 and transferring data to both our on-prem and our cloud servers (this would also add onto our cloud usage costs). We recently switched over to a redundancy ISP to make sure we keep our connection, but in the worst case scenario, if we lost internet, our internal office would still be able to function. If we were in the cloud and lost internet, then our entire office would be at a standstill, which is not acceptable to the execs.
I have considered papering some form of a hybrid setup, but it would end up just being some sort of a cloud sync, where our on-prem servers would be mirroring the cloud, and I don't see the point of it for our specific setup.
Thanks for any suggestions you guys might have.
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Best Method to support Laptops?
Hi, all. Have an issue that I’m looking for input on. As a new sysadmin for a company, I’m looking for the best way to manage our laptops going forward. Currently they are set up on Intune, but I haven’t touched any configuration on them since I started. Is this something I should keep, or should I put them on domain and manage via SCCM like our desktops? Would putting these devices on domain even make sense? We are swapping to a desktop or laptop only policy and I want to make sure our users can work on both interchangeably with few differences between the two. If anyone has good resources on what can actually be done with Intune please let me know. Seems like the old team bought a little of everything so I can go pretty much any route with these.
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Using different brands for firewall, switches and APs vs same one
I do more cloud (Microsoft) and endpoint support. The network is managed by 3 people who don’t want to train others.
Conveniently, the previous companies I worked at used all Meraki branded equipment. Current company uses a different brand for each of them; watchguard, meraki and ubiquity. Problem I notice is that there seem to be less features overall (or maybe they don’t know how to implement some) and all it’s meant to do is to connect people to the network.
Is it better to use different brands in case “one brand have issues” like I was told? Or is it better to have the same brand for everything because of the cloud management capabilities that these network engineers aren’t doing? Everything is practically brand new so it wasn’t like their hands were forced in a way where they couldn’t buy one brand.
Generally trying to learn more and concerned about these guys aren’t modernizing much. For example to reboot the switch or firewall, they would ask someone to manually unplug it and plug it back in instead of remotely handling that. Part of monthly maintenance.
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User issues
Did work on one of our floors on a Monday, took a bunch of drops down by disconnecting them in the data closet as they appeared dead\offline anyway.
Friday I get a call saying “ I can’t get into the ehr system”.
I go downstairs and look and sure enough it’s one of the drops I disabled on Monday. So I tell him “yeah, I know what’s going on, give me a minute”.
“Ok good, I have not been able to work all week”.
Which means for 8 hours a day, each day all week, he has done nothing.
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AWS & MACsec: Confirm my Understanding (please)
IPsec from my on-prem data centers terminates on a physical Palo Alto FW in the on-prem, and a virtual Palo in our Transit VPC today.
This gives us data encryption all the way across the transit circuit(s) (a DirectConnect currently) and all the way into our Transit VPC.
But IPsec has difficulty going faster than ~1 Gbps without some kind of multi-pathing across multiple tunnels.
To paraphrase the esteemed philosopher and renowned scholar Ricky Bobby, "We wanna go fast."
MACsec is happy to go much faster than ~1Gbps.
MACsec is offered by Amazon and Microsoft as a connectivity option to enter their fabrics.
Google probably also offers this, but I haven't researched it yet.
But, if I understand things correctly, the encryption will terminate at the Amazon-provided switchport that is mapped to our customer environment.
So, from that Layer-2 segment between that switchport, and our virtual Palo... unless I misunderstand, we are not encrypted by any mechanism under our control.
We are at the mercy of Amazon saying "Trust us bro, our security wont let anybody see your traffic."
Is my understanding incomplete? Am I missing something? I kinda hope that I am missing something.
Is what Cisco calls "LAN MACsec" adequate for this service option, or do we need the fancier "WAN MACsec" ?
I have the same concern with Microsoft Azure, as I suspect the same challenge exists.
Are there any options for further securing this L2 segment that I'm not thinking of?
Are we overthinking it? Should we have more confidence in Amazon & Azure's security customer isolation?
The wisdom of the cloud gurus is appreciated.
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MPLS prices in 2025 are still a joke lol
Just got quoted for a regional site link and I genuinely laughed out loud. I don`t get how we are still paying enterprise prices for latency that`s barely better than a solid DIA with smart routing. I`m all for reliability but there`s gotta be a smarter way in 2025. what do you say?
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With smtp auth going away in 2026, how do you plan on handling devices that only support basic auth?
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/exchange/exchange-online-to-retire-basic-auth-for-client-submission-smtp-auth/4114750
> Exchange Online will permanently remove support for Basic authentication with Client Submission (SMTP AUTH) gradually beginning with a small percentage of submission rejections for all tenants on March 1st 2026 and reaching 100% rejections on April 30th 2026, (previously September 2025). After this time, applications and devices will no longer be able to use Basic auth as an authentication method and must use OAuth when using SMTP AUTH to send email.
> ...
> The only remediation for this is to update your client or app to support OAuth, use a different client or app that supports OAuth, or use a different email solution such as High Volume Email or Azure Communication Services for Email.
Primarily concerned about scan to email, as well as some various apps set up to do email reporting on my end.
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Do standing desk help dev teams?
So my boss finally caved and asked me to look into getting standing desks for our IT crew (around 30 devs). Right now if you want one you either have to jump through HR hoops or buy your own which suck
Looking for brands that won't fall apart after a month. Ideally something sturdy that can handle multiple monitors without wobbling when someone bumps into it.
Anyone know companies that do bulk discounts or have decent corporate rates? Also curious if anyone's team actually uses theirs or if they just became expensive regular desks after week 2. Our devs are glued to their chairs for like 10+ hours a day so figured it might help with whole "my back is destroyed" situation everyone complains about :/
Need to get this proposal together pretty quick so any brands to check out (or avoid) would be awesome. Thanks!
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August 2025 Microsoft 365 Changes: What's New and What's Gone?
August brings over 25 updates to Microsoft 365, including new features, retirements, and functionality changes. Be sure to stay informed to avoid disruptions.
**In Spotlight**
* **New Microsoft Places admin center:** A centralized Microsoft Places web portal is launching. It will provide admins with a streamlined interface to manage buildings, floors, rooms, and desks.
* **Drag & Drop Emails Between Accounts in New Outlook** \- The new Outlook for Windows now supports drag-and-drop emails and files between personal, enterprise, and shared mailboxes, significantly boosting cross-account productivity.
* **Azure AD Graph API retirement:** Azure AD Graph APIs will be retired in early September 2025. Make sure to migrate to Microsoft Graph APIs before August 31, 2025.
* **Microsoft Enforces Admin Consent for Third-Party Apps -** Microsoft will enable the app consent policies by default, enforcing admin consent for third-party app access.
* **Classic eDiscovery Retirement** \- Microsoft will retire Classic eDiscovery (Premium) from the Microsoft 365 Purview portal. Move to the new eDiscovery experience.
**Here's your sneak peek:**
* Retirements: 6
* New Features: 10
* Enhancements: 5
* Existing Functionality Changes: 7
* Action Required: 2
* Retirement Postponed: 1
**Retirements**:
1. *Organization Data Types in Excel*, which allowed users to access Power BI datasets, will be retired on July 31, 2025.
2. The “*Monitoring” feature* in Conditional Access will be fully retired on August 1, 2025.
3. *Microsoft Project for the web* and *Project in Teams* will be retired in August 2025.
4. Microsoft is retiring *Cognitive Services and Azure Machine Learning integrations* in Power BI.
5. *Speaker Coach in Microsoft Teams*, which offered personalized speaking feedback during meetings, will be retired starting mid-August 2025.
6. *Client Access Rules* (CARs), which were used to control access to Exchange Online, will be deprecated by September 1, 2025.
**New Features:**
1. Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention will block Microsoft 365 Copilot from *processing emails that carry sensitivity labels*.
2. *Microsoft Purview Data Security Investigations* (DSI) is an AI-powered solution that helps security teams detect, analyze, and mitigate data risks.
3. Insider Risk Management will include *new detections* to identify risky AI activity, including sensitive prompts, suspicious intents, and AI-generated sensitive content.
4. SharePoint Online document library owners can now apply sensitivity labels directly at the library level. Files that are unprotected or lack labels will inherit the label. *Downloaded files retain site-level permissions* even outside SharePoint.
5. eDiscovery APIs are moving from Beta to V1. Enhancements include *additional parameters and export formats* that improve accuracy and streamline workflows.
6. Microsoft Teams will allow IT admins to run *silent call simulations* to check network readiness and proactively catch performance issues.
7. Microsoft Viva Engage introduces a *delegation feature* that allows admins to assign Pulse survey management to other users.
8. Microsoft Teams on the web will add a new sign-in experience in mid-August 2025, supporting *login through Apple or Google credentials.*
9. Microsoft Places is launching a *map-based desk reservation feature*. This will be available for Teams Premium users, allowing bookings through interactive floor maps.
10. Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management (IRM) data will integrate with Microsoft Defender XDR, enabling *deeper threat investigations and event correlation*.
**Enhancements:**
1. Microsoft Authenticator for iOS will *support backup of all account names* using iCloud and iCloud Keychain. This includes school, work, personal, and third-party accounts like Google and Amazon.
2. Microsoft Purview *improves audit log messages* related to role group membership changes, particularly for GrantPermission and DeletePermission operations. The new
LifeLock by Norton
Just saw this ad that ran on Nat Geo Wild for 15 minutes. Paid members talking about how they got scammed and now they feel safe by using lifelock.
Cherry on top? Apparently they have support specialists who will work tirelessly in the USA to help restore your identity.
The whole ad felt fucking predatory.
Are people this gullible?
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