Mike Rosoft

Amazon EC2 M7i and M7i-flex instances are now available in Asia Pacific (Osaka) Region

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) M7i and M7i-flex instances powered by custom 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors (code-named Sapphire Rapids) are available in Asia Pacific (Osaka) region. These custom processors, available only on AWS, offer up…

Modern Workspace Pro 6 August 2025No Comments

Microsoft Teams

(Updated) Important Update: Teams Meeting Join URL Validation [MC1120871]

Message ID: MC1120871 (Updated) Updated August 6, 2025: We have updated this message with additional information to clarify the Meeting joins experience. Thank you for your patience.What and WhoTo enhance the security and integrity of Microsoft Teams meetings, we are…

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Exchange Online Microsoft 365 apps

(Updated) Create, Delete, Rename, and Move Folders in Outlook for iOS and Android [MC1068276]

Message ID: MC1068276 (Updated) Updated August 6, 2025: We have updated the timeline. Thank you for your patience.In Outlook on iOS and Android you will now be able to more easily create, delete, rename, and move folders on the mobile…

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Amazon Web Services

Amazon VPC Reachability Analyzer and Amazon VPC Network Access Analyzer are now available in five additional AWS Regions

With this launch, Amazon VPC Reachability Analyzer and Amazon VPC Network Access Analyzer are now available in Asia Pacific (Jakarta), Asia Pacific (Malaysia), Asia Pacific (Thailand), Europe (Zurich), and Middle East (UAE). VPC Reachability Analyzer allows you to diagnose network…

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Amazon Web Services

Amazon QuickSight now supports connectivity to Apache Impala

Today, Amazon QuickSight is announcing the general availability of a native Apache Impala connector. Apache Impala is a massively parallel processing (MPP) SQL query engine that runs natively on Apache Hadoop. QuickSight customers can now connect using their username password…

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Microsoft Purview

(Updated) Introduction of secure workflow to bypass retention/legal holds on OneDrive and SharePoint [MC1115304]

Message ID: MC1115304 (Updated) Updated August 6, 2025: We have updated the timeline. Thank you for your patience.What and Why: We're introducing a new capability in Microsoft Purview Data Lifecycle Management that allows admins to bypass existing retention policies and…

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Mike on Anthropic Claude Sonnet is now available in Microsoft 365 Copilot [MC1247880]17 April 2026
Really interesting update. It feels like the bigger story here is not just that another model has been added, but…
Mike on Copilot entry point changes in Excel [MC1282571]17 April 2026
This is a helpful breakdown of what looks like a small UX change on the surface but has very real…
AI Logo Generator on GCP Release Notes: February 14, 202617 February 2026
It’s exciting to see Google SecOps SIEM and SOAR updates rolling out globally. I’m curious if there are any significant…
AI Music Generator on GCP Release Notes: February 13, 202615 February 2026
Security bulletins like the one for CVE-2025-13292 are always a bit concerning, but it’s reassuring to know Google is actively…
Nano Banana AI on GCP Release Notes: February 12, 202614 February 2026
This migration tool seems like a great step for those looking to modernize their infrastructure. Being able to move App…