Mike Rosoft

Amazon CloudWatch SDK supports optimized JSON, CBOR protocols (in preview)

Amazon CloudWatch announces support for both the JSON and Concise Binary Object Representation (CBOR) protocols in the CloudWatch SDK, enabling lower latency and improved performance for CloudWatch customers. The SDK will automatically use JSON or CBOR as its new default…

Modern Workspace Pro 18 July 2025No Comments

Google Cloud Platform

GCP Release Note: July 18, 2025

AI Hypercomputer Feature Generally available: You can troubleshoot workloads with slow performance by using straggler detection metrics and logs. Stragglers are single-point, non-crashing failures that eventuallyslow down your entire workload. Large-scale ML workloads are very susceptible to stragglers, and VMs…

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SharePoint Online

Updates to custom scripting in sites and Classic Publishing site creation [MC1117115]

Message ID: MC1117115 We are implementing the following changes to custom scripting and classic publishing in SharePoint Online.1. Disablement of custom scriptingCustom scripting will be disabled by default (setting DenyAddAndCustomizePages to 1 or $true) for sites created with the following…

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Planner

Announcing Public Preview of Project Manager agent in Shared Premium Plans [MC1117098]

Message ID: MC1117098 What and Why To help teams and individuals plan and execute work more efficiently, we’re expanding the capabilities and availability of the Project Manager agent (PMA) to all shared premium plans (both new and existing premium plans).…

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Microsoft OneDrive for Business | Updated order of Shortcut and Sync commands [MC1117105]

Message ID: MC1117105 IntroductionWe’re enhancing the Add Shortcut to OneDrive experience to make it more intuitive and consistent across Microsoft 365. This update improves discoverability and supports a more streamlined file access workflow in OneDrive and SharePoint document libraries.When will…

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Microsoft 365 suite

Standard and Priority access to Copilot capabilities [MC1117101]

Message ID: MC1117101 We’re excited to announce the change from fixed limits to capacity-based access for some capabilities in Microsoft 365 Copilot. Starting early August, Copilot Chat users without a Microsoft 365 Copilot license get standard access to tools like…

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AI Music Generator on Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports R6in and M6in instances1 August 2025
The increased network bandwidth in R6in and M6in instances is a great move, especially for businesses that rely on write-heavy…
Cyber Wpg on Important Update: Teams Meeting Join URL Validation [MC1120871]29 July 2025
It would be nice it the post included the teams join URLs.
Dave on GCP Release Notes: July 28, 202529 July 2025
Great roundup of the latest GCP updates—thanks for keeping the community informed! The enhancements to Cloud Run and the new…
AI Music Generator on (Updated) Microsoft Outlook: Users can set custom account descriptions [MC981635]25 July 2025
This feels like a small update, but it’s going to make a big difference for users managing multiple inboxes—especially those…
AI Music Generator on Important Update: Teams Meeting Join URL Validation [MC1120871]24 July 2025
Good to know Microsoft is addressing the problem of broken meeting links due to URL rewriting. We’ve run into this…