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The New Outlook for Windows Reaches General Availability

The new Outlook for Windows client is generally available, which means that Microsoft supports it for product usage. That's all fine for those who want to use the new client once they understand that a considerable functionality gap still exists between the new Outlook and Outlook classic. Fortunately, Microsoft will support Outlook classic until "at least 2029."

August 1, 2024

Exchange Online’s New High Volume Email (HVE) Solution

The Exchange Online High-Volume Email (HVE) solution handles up to 100,000 internal messages and 2,000 external messages daily. It's intended to replace on-premises Exchange servers that organizations keep just to service email submission from devices and applications. In this review of the preview version, we discovered that almost everything works just fine, if you keep within the throttling limits.

July 30, 2024

Using Entra ID Classifications with Microsoft 365 Groups

Entra ID classifications don't seem very exciting because they're text-only visual markers for Microsoft 365 groups and teams that don't come with any of the intelligence built into sensitivity labels. However, classifications can do a useful job for Microsoft 365 tenants that don't have the necessary licenses for sensitivity labels or who don't want to implement sensitivity labels.

July 22, 2024

Places, Outlook Classic, and Teams Rooms Upgrades: The Practical 365 Podcast S4 E23

Microsoft Places preview, Outlook Classic rebrand, and AI upgrades for Teams Rooms highlight this week's Practical 365 podcast. We discuss the potential impact of Places in the hybrid work landscape, the implications of Outlook's renaming, and how AI-powered speaker recognition is enhancing Teams meetings. Plus, we cover key Microsoft 365 roadmap items, including automatic work location settings in Teams and new Copilot features coming later this year.

July 18, 2024