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When installing and running the KB5018410 update, users might see OneDrive randomly close for no reason. If this happens, the file-sharing/cloud storage app will surface an error if the user attempts one of the following: Sign out or unlink your account in the Microsoft OneDrive sync app. Unlink sites or folders from syncing to your device from Microsoft SharePoint or Microsoft Teams sites. Uninstalling the OneDrive sync app might fail....

With this change, user-level information stored on the following APIs will become pseudonyms: Microsoft 365 Reports in the Microsoft 365 admin center Microsoft 365 usage reports in Microsoft Graph Microsoft Teams analytics and reporting in the Microsoft Teams admin center The reportRoot: getSharePointSiteUsageDetail API (1.0 and beta) for SharePoint site detail However, Microsoft says despite this becoming the default, global admins can still choose to see data in personally identifiable information (PII) on Microsoft 365....

Microsoft has confirmed the issue this morning: “We’re investigating an issue in which email is being sent to the junk folder. We’ll be providing updates under EX258373 in the admin center,” Microsoft tweeted on the 365 status account at 7:25am AEST. About an hour after the first report, the team said the error is happening because of a behind the scenes change to the platform. However, Microsoft said it was rolling back to mitigate the issue: “We’re reverting a change that has caused inbound email to be incorrectly routed to the junk folder....

Essentially, the new update option is another Cumulative Update scenario, albeit with a difference. These new Cumulative Updates will now include any security fixes. Instead, the new Windows 10 patches will be shown as “Updates” in Configuration Manager and Windows Server Update Services. In a blog post to announce the changes, Microsoft says it will sometimes roll out cumulative releases sans security fixes that focus on critical issues. These will be labelled as “ In a blog post to announce the changes, Microsoft says it will sometimes roll out cumulative releases sans security fixes that focus on critical issues....

In a press release, Oracle points out demand for being able to run enterprise tools across multi-cloud environments is a global trend. As such, expending the partnership to Canada makes sense. According to Clay Magouyrk, Senior VP of Engineering for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, the extension allows business customers to manage more workloads. “From a technical perspective, the interconnect will mean less latency for the customers. It also supports a broader spectrum of workloads, using resources available on both sides....

CORD-19 is a dataset of scientific articles focused on the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic that has brought the world to a standstill. Researchers around the globe can access the collection of over 29,000 scholarly articles. “The motivation behind the CORD-19 effort is to make research and discovery more efficient—and to accelerate progress toward solutions to the pandemic.” Microsoft says 13,000 articles have full text and are machine-readable, which means AI tools can analyze the data....

At the Moscone Center in San Francisco, the venue for the RSA Conference 2022, there were over 20 sessions led by Microsoft. These meetings covered several topics and products, allowing attendees the chance to see the company’s newest solutions for security. Among the notable services during the sessions were Microsoft Sentinel, Entra, and the new Microsoft Experts for Hunting. Of course, we already know about these products and what they do, but at RSA Microsoft was expanding on its vision for the future of these services....

Both of the services will focus on improving educations services for IT Pros. The first is Intune for Education, which has been in preview since January. It has now been moved to being generally available. As the name suggests, the new service is an expansion of Microsoft’s existing Intune solution, but with an education twist. If you are unfamiliar, Intune is cloud-based mobile device management service. Among the features of the service are mobile application management, and PC management....

A new Xbox Avatar Editor is available in the Microsoft Store for Windows 10. This allows Windows PC gamers to create their own character Just like with the Xbox release, this is a preview that is only available to members of the Xbox Insider Program. We already know the new Xbox Live Avatars will offer extensive customization tools. However, for the preview phase only a limited amount of the features are available....

While Timeline picks up document use easily, it’s browsing history has been limited. Edge accounts for only a small percentage of the market, though its switch to Chromium could help with that. It’s worth noting that third-party extensions enabled this functionality previously, but that comes with its own issues. Users have trouble trusting Microsoft, let alone a random developer that’s processing every single webpage they visit. Microsoft’s extension should garner a little more trust while bringing data to other platforms....

Microsoft privately disclosed the issue to Huawei, who “co-operated quickly and professionally” to resolve it. Huawei Matebook users with PCManager can download the fix here. As a result, up to date users shouldn’t be at any serious risk. However, some will be naturally angry that the company introduced a security hole with its software. The purpose of PCManager is to aid in driver updates, but it seems the implementation was far from ideal....

This is interesting, but not without a reminder of where Microsoft is in terms of Windows 10 Mobile hardware. The company decided to pull away from making its Lumia-branded smartphones last year. Instead, Microsoft said it would focus on boosting Windows 10 Mobile for OEMs. That has not really happened and the platform is floundering. Microsoft has never said it was leaving mobile hardware permanently, and consistent rumors suggest smartphones will arrive this year....

That’s what has happened today. Microsoft has offered some more details on the specs of the Xbox Series X. In a published post, the company confirmed some of the expectations around hardware. Specifically, the Series X will have a CPU and GPU combo based on AMD’s Zen2 and RDNA 2 architecture. Highlighting how far console tech has come since the Xbox One launched in 2013, Microsoft says the new console will boast 12TFLOPS....

So, while conceding the personal market, the company has hope in enterprise. Microsoft is reported to be pushing towards Cortana integrating more under the skin of Windows. In fact, it may mean users rarely know they are interacting with the assistant as voice interaction will take a back seat. In its survey, Pindrop found businesses may be happy to see this happen. The study found 78 percent of organizations want to integrate Cortana into operations:...

The main benefit of Task Manger Eco Mode is to help Windows 10 perform better by running specific apps within the mode. Currently running as part of Windows 10 preview build 21364, the feature is labelled as experimental. This preview update is not for Windows 10 21H2, but probably for the 22H1 release next year. In other words, that’s when you can expect to see Eco Mode in the Task Manager....

As usual, the company compared a collection of anti-malware products, 19 this time. Each program is given a score of 18 points. You may remember Microsoft failed to score top marks for the previous April test. There are six points for each of the following categories: Protection, Performance, and Usability. Microsoft Defender – alongside other anti-virus programs – scored the top marks across all categories. You can see in the image (main above) how each antivirus software performed alongside Defender....

For older users, the Control Panel was the hub of all settings and adjustments on Windows for years. For newer generations, the Settings app Microsoft released with Windows 10 has taken over that position. The fact the Control Panel and Settings app co-exist is something Microsoft wants to change. The company is slowly transitioning the Control Panel features into the Windows Settings app and will remove the Control Panel completely in the future....

In a report, Microsoft says the new attack on Kubeflow has never been seen before. According to the company, bad actors have been leveraging the method since April. It seems attackers want to be able to use Kubernetes to power their cryptocurrency mining operations. Yossi Weizman, a security researcher with Microsoft’s Azure Security Center, says the company has found “tens of Kubernetes clusters” that have been affected by the Kubeflow attack....

For the period ending March 31, 2022, Microsoft earnings saw revenue increase year-on-year across almost all its business divisions. Total revenue for Q3 stood at $49.4 billion, up 18% from the same period a year ago. As for profit, operating income was $20.4 billion (up 19%), while net income rose to $16.7 billion (+8% GAAP or +13% non-GAAP). Yes, Microsoft continues to go from strength to strength, but how does this revenue break down across the company?...

There was no waiting until Patch Tuesday for this fix. Instead, Microsoft got to work and rolled out a fix hours after reports started gathering pace. Clearly, Chromium Microsoft Edge is now an important part of Windows 10. Microsoft knows most people use Google as a default search. In other words, the company needed to squash this bug fast because it could have affected most Edge users. The company is increasingly trying to push Edge as an alternative to Google’s Chrome, especially in enterprise....