Mike Rosoft

Transition to Teams Town Hall from Teams Live Events [MC1154302]

Message ID: MC1154302 Introduction With the rollout of Preview in Manage what attendees see, Teams town hall has now reached full feature parity with Teams live events. We’re encouraging all Teams live events users to make the switch and take…

Modern Workspace Pro 17 September 2025Feature update, Stay informed, User impact

Microsoft 365 suite

New PDF Viewer Enabled by Default in Microsoft Edge Starting October 2025 [MC1154300]

Message ID: MC1154300 [Introduction] Starting in October 2025, Microsoft Edge version 141 will introduce the Adobe-powered PDF viewer as the default experience for enterprise users on Windows. This change enhances performance, accessibility, and compatibility, and introduces exclusive enterprise features. It…

Modern Workspace Pro 17 September 2025Admin impact, New feature, Plan for change, User impact

Microsoft 365 suite

Reminder – Support for Office 2016, Office 2019, and additional apps will end on October 14, 2025 [MC1154299]

Message ID: MC1154299 As previously communicated here and MC1056260 (April '25), support for Office 2016 and Office 2019 will end on October 14, 2025. After that date, no further updates, security fixes, or technical support will be available for these versions…

Modern Workspace Pro 17 September 2025Admin impact, Plan for change, Retirement, User impact

Microsoft Teams

Microsoft Teams: Configure your Citrix VDI environments for SlimCore-based optimization [MC1154298]

Message ID: MC1154298 [Introduction:]Microsoft Teams introduced a new SlimCore-based optimization for Citrix VDI environments and Windows endpoints in late 2024. This update delivered improved performance, reliability, and quality compared to the legacy WebRTC-based optimization. It also unlocks new features such…

Modern Workspace Pro 17 September 2025Admin impact, Feature update, Stay informed, User impact

Amazon Web Services

New fault action in AWS FIS to inject I/O latency on Amazon EBS volumes

Today, Amazon EBS announced a new latency injection action in AWS Fault Injection Service (FIS), a fully managed service for running fault injection experiments. You can now use this action to inject I/O latency on your volumes as part of…

Modern Workspace Pro 16 September 2025

Amazon Web Services

Amazon EC2 I7i instances now available in South America (São Paulo), Canada West (Calgary) regions

Amazon Web Services (AWS) announces the availability of high performance Storage Optimized Amazon EC2 I7i instances in the AWS South America (São Paulo), Canada West (Calgary) regions. Powered by 5th generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors with an all-core turbo frequency…

Modern Workspace Pro 16 September 2025

MC1474455: Microsoft Copilot App Adds In-App Browsing on Windows and Mac

MC1474458: Microsoft Copilot Notebooks Adds Power BI Report References for Data-Driven Summaries and Briefs

MC1474415: Microsoft 365 Apps Releases September Current Channel Update

MC1473153: Microsoft Teams Introduces Centralized Resource Management in Chats and Channels and Removes Old Panes

MC1469960: Exchange Online Requires EWSAllowedAppIDs Configuration Ahead of Final EWS Retirement Rollout

MC1474128: Power Platform Removes Global Discovery Service API and Shifts to List Environments API

MC1474110: Microsoft Planner Adds Capacity View for Team Workload Management

MC1474111: Microsoft 365 Retires Companion Apps Calendar, People, and Files by December 2026

MC1474104: Microsoft Entra ID Retires SMS First-Factor Sign-In and Requires Migration to Phishing-Resistant Methods

MC1473151: Microsoft Edge to Support IE Mode Through End of 2029, Urges Early Migration Planning