July 2021 Weekly Newsletter – Week 4

Next-generation firewall capabilities with Azure Firewall Premium

Following the preview release announced in February 2021, we are announcing the general availability release of Microsoft Azure Firewall Premium.

Announcing self-service purchase capabilities for Windows 365

Windows 365 was announced on July 14, 2021.  Today we are also announcing that self-service purchasing capabilities are coming soon for Windows 365.  Individuals worldwide (excluding India) will be able to acquire a subscription for the following products as early as August 15, 2021…

(Updated) Power Platform admin center cross-tenant analytics

This new Microsoft Power Platform feature release will allow admins to view out of the box reports for usage, maker activity, and inventory of canvas and model-driven apps at the tenant and environment level.

Microsoft disponibiliza no Brasil o Azure Data Box para transferência de dados rápida e econômica

A partir de julho, a Microsoft disponibiliza no Brasil o Azure Data Box, um dispositivo que permite que organizações movam dados para a plataforma de nuvem Microsoft Azure de maneira segura, rápida e econômica. O dispositivo utiliza criptografia e permite o envio de grandes quantidades de dados para a nuvem com segurança. O serviço pode ser utilizado mediante uma taxa fixa.

New default Native Notifications setting for new Teams users

With this change the default Notification Style (specifically for new users) will change to Native Notifications from Teams Built In. This will apply across Windows and Mac.

Microsoft 365 apps and services ending support on IE11 beginning August 17, 2021

As communicated in MC220490 (August ’20), Microsoft 365 apps and services have been focusing their efforts on modern browser support over the last year. Beginning August 17, 2021, Microsoft 365 apps and services will no longer support Internet Explorer 11 (IE11) and users may have a degraded experience, or be unable to connect to, those apps and services.

(Updated) Teams Follows Office Preview

We are rolling out a new Teams policy that will allow users to automatically be in the Public Preview channel of Teams if they are in Current Channel Preview for the Office 365 Client.

New Side-by-side and Reporter Presenter modes with desktop and window sharing

This new first of its kind feature release will allow presenters, while sharing a screen in Presenter modes, to be able to present in two new presentation layouts in an immersive experience alongside their content.