August 2021 Weekly Newsletter – Week 4

Optimize your private mobile network and accelerate innovation with hyperscale cloud

Optimize your private mobile network and accelerate innovation with hyperscale cloud

August 2021 Azure Updates – Week 3

Get the latest updates on Azure products and features to meet your cloud investment needs.

Retirement of Direct Link option while creating a Sharing link in the OneDrive for Business connector

The ‘Direct’ link option is being retired because rather than creating sharing links it creates file download links, which do not reflect the scope chosen by the user and may not be accessible after a short period of time.

What is Microsoft Azure Sentinel?

Microsoft Azure Sentinel is a scalable, cloud-native, security information event management (SIEM) and security orchestration automated response (SOAR) solution. Azure Sentinel delivers intelligent security analytics and threat intelligence across the enterprise, providing a single solution for alert detection, threat visibility, proactive hunting, and threat response.

Teams admin center: Left navigation improvements

The left navigation in Teams admin center will be reorganized to make it easier for you to find content and navigate through Teams admin center.

Pairing naming convention between Teams channel and corresponding SharePoint folders

This new release will update the channel rename experience in Teams to simultaneously rename the corresponding folder in SharePoint sites whenever a channel in Teams is renamed.

Announcing PowerPoint modern comments for enterprise general availability

This release (currently in preview) will update the comments feature in PowerPoint to the new PowerPoint modern comments experience. Modern comments help improve users collaborative experience with features such as resolving comments, anchoring comments to objects and text, and improved @mentions.

Retirement of (Azure AD) Graph and license assignment operations and updates to license management APIs and PowerShell

Today, as communicated on Tech Community, we are providing a reminder that the end of support for Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) Graph will be on June 30, 2022. Apps using Azure AD Graph after this time will no longer receive responses from the Azure AD Graph endpoint.

Outlook: Tone detection in Microsoft Editor for Outlook on the web

This new feature for Microsoft Editor in Outlook on the web will now offer writing refinements to suggest changes to tone.  These suggestions will allow the user to communicate more clearly and in a desired tone to deter misinterpretation.