Easily create images with generative AI for free!
Microsoft Designer comes with a number of capabilities including:
Here’s the avatar I created for myself. You can use and edit the prompt I used below: (Use the link below on a desktop browser.)
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A major feature for Government/GCC eDiscovery Premium users was released last month: “eDiscovery guest reviewer delegated access”
This feature allows Government customers to share read-only eDiscovery packages with external guests directly over the cloud.
Here is the entry from the Microsoft 365 Roadmap for the GCC/Government cloud instance:
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery (Premium) – eDiscovery guest reviewer delegated access (GCC)
This feature enables secure and convenient external guest reviewer access to eDiscovery Premium review sets within a case. This feature empowers eDiscovery Premium admins and managers to follow more traditional collaboration practices that will boost confidence and workflow defensibility by allowing outside counsel to cooperate more directly without increasing cost or risk.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?featureid=165487
DOCUMENTATION
Documentation on Guest Reviewer delegated access is available here:
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Introducing Microsoft Copilot Studio – Customize Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 or build your own copilot experiences.
Copilot Studio offers graphical development environment to build copilots using generative AI, sophisticated dialog creation, plugin capabilities, process automation, and built-in analytics that work with Microsoft conversational AI tools.
#microsoft #ai #copilot #copilotstudio
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Microsoft is ranked #1 in market share in the IDC Worldwide Corporate Endpoint Security Market Shares report, 2022. More customers choose and trust Microsoft Defender for Endpoint to defend their multiplatform devices than any other vendor.
Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is an enterprise endpoint protection platform that enables security teams to gain a holistic view into their device estate across multiplatform endpoints, servers, as well as enterprise Internet of Things (IoT) devices, and mitigates threats with key capabilities including:
✅ Endpoint detection and response (EDR).
✅ Vulnerability management.
✅ Attack surface reduction.
✅ Next-generation protection.
✅ Auto investigation and response.
While prevention capabilities and vulnerability management are critical for endpoint security solutions, protection capabilities are key for defenders to help keep their organization safe. That’s why Defender for Endpoint protection goes far beyond traditional antivirus technologies. Our next-generation protection combines machine learning models trained on cloud-scale data and behavior-based detection to protect in real-time against malware, polymorphic threats, and other malicious activity.
Download the report here:
“IDC ranks Microsoft Defender for Endpoint first in market share” | Microsoft Security Blog
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2023/07/06/microsoft-defender-for-endpoint-is-ranked-number-one-in-market-share-in-the-idc-worldwide-corporate-endpoint-security-market-shares-report-2022/
#defender #Microsoft #idc #endpointprotection
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Introducing “Microsoft 365 Archive”: Low cost storage of inactive SharePoint sites. Retain inactive data in a SharePoint cold storage tier & keep the same searchability, security & compliance at a much reduced cost.
✅ Introducing Microsoft 365 Archive
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/sharepoint-premium-blog/welcome-to-microsoft-inspire-2023-introducing-microsoft-365/ba-p/3874887
✅ Overview of Microsoft 365 Archive
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/syntex/archive/archive-overview
✅ Set up Microsoft 365 Archive
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/syntex/archive/archive-setup
✅ Adoption
https://adoption.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365-archive/
✅ Pricing
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/syntex/archive/archive-pricing
#Microsoft #msftadvocate #Microsoft365 #Archive
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Introducing “Microsoft 365 Backup” for backup/recovery of your OneDrive, SharePoint & Exchange Online data at unprecedented speed with a restore SLA & keeping within the Microsoft 365 security boundary.
✅ Introducing Microsoft 365 Backup
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/sharepoint-premium-blog/welcome-to-microsoft-inspire-2023-introducing-microsoft-365/ba-p/3874887
✅ Overview of Microsoft 365 Backup (Preview)
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/syntex/backup/backup-overview
✅ Set up Microsoft 365 Backup (Preview)
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/syntex/backup/backup-setup
✅ Microsoft 365 Backup – Adoption
https://adoption.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365-backup/
✅ Pricing
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/syntex/syntex-pay-as-you-go-services
Also, the most recent news from Microsoft Ignite 2023 includea details about the storage “Microsoft 365 Backup” uses & how this integrates with existing backup solutions like Rubrik, Commvault & Veaam.
✅ Microsoft 365 Backup and Microsoft 365 Backup Storage at Ignite 2023
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-365-blog/microsoft-365-backup-and-microsoft-365-backup-storage-at-ignite/ba-p/3981049
#Microsoft #Microsoft365 #Backup
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SharePoint eSignature is Microsoft’s first-party electronic signature service which allows users to easily request eSignatures on a #PDF document via SharePoint Online.
Signers can easily add their electronic signature. Signed documents are saved securely back to SharePoint.
Rolling out to tenants now in the US. Other regions in 2024.
✅ Overview of Microsoft Syntex eSignature
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/syntex/esignature-overview
✅ Create a signature request using Microsoft Syntex eSignature
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/syntex/esignature-send-requests
✅ Set up Microsoft Syntex eSignature
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/syntex/esignature-setup
✅ SharePoint eSignature – Microsoft Adoption
https://adoption.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint-premium/esignature/
✅ Pay-as-you-go services and pricing for Microsoft Syntex
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/syntex/syntex-pay-as-you-go-services
#Microsoft #SharePoint #Syntex #eSignature
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For cybersecurity professionals, it’s generally accepted that unsigned SMB networking & inbound NTLM authentication need to be eliminated from everyone’s networks. Both are too unsafe to be allowed to exist.
The problem for cybersecurity professionals however has been that explaining the threat – relay attacks, Actor in the Middle, Pass the Hash, etc. – has been too difficult for decision makers in digest. Even telling them that this is a fundamental ransomware threat hasn’t been enough to take action – leaving you, the security pro responsible, biting your nails on the sideline.
So we’ll be making the decision for them.
NEW SECURITY DEFAULTS FOR SMB & NTLM
Microsoft will be making SMB signing mandatory by default & we are removing and replacing NTLM by default. Both of these coming actions are officially public – see links below.
If you’re in cybersecurity & have leadership that hasn’t prioritized this for your organization, let them know that your organization can either preemptively test & disable unsigned SMB networking & inbound NTLM authentication now… or they can wait for Microsoft to do it for them. 
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Many of the product groups here at Microsoft have documented what they consider to be their “can’t miss” sessions at the upcoming Microsoft Ignite 2023 conference – coming this November 14-17. (If you haven’t registered for the online/virtual event, you need to do so ASAP)
Here’s each of their respective "session guides”:
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Providing feedback, suggestions or requests around Microsoft products & services is relatively simple.
Simply go to the “Ideas community” (aka the “Feedback Portal”) at https://feedbackportal.microsoft.com and you’ll see hundreds of communities – one for each product or service – where you can:
Our product groups use this forum for giving people updates on when a suggestion or request has been moved into the product roadmap & what it’s general status is Fun fact: There’s even a feedback community for the actual “Feedback Portal” itself. How meta. 
ABOUT FEEDBACK FOR “WINDOWS”
The exception to the rule is that feedback around Windows OS itself, is submitted through the “Feedback Hub”, a built-in application within Windows 10 & 11 which enables easy submission of Windows-based feedback including screenshots.
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