Mike Rosoft

Amazon RDS enhances observability for snapshot exports to Amazon S3

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) now offers enhanced observability for your snapshot exports to Amazon S3, providing detailed insights into export progress, failures, and performance for each task. These notifications enable you to monitor your exports with greater granularity and…

Modern Workspace Pro 19 December 2025No Comments

Cloudflare Workers

Workers – Static prerendering support for TanStack Start

TanStack Start apps can now prerender routes to static HTML at build time with access to build time environment variables and bindings, and serve them as static assets. To enable prerendering, configure the prerender option of the TanStack Start plugin…

Modern Workspace Pro 19 December 2025No Comments

Microsoft Teams

Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Admins can block external users in Microsoft Teams from Defender Portal [MC1200058]

Message ID: MC1200058 [Introduction] We’re introducing an integration between Microsoft Teams and Microsoft Defender for Office 365 that allows security admins to manage blocked external users in Teams through the Tenant Allow/Block List (TABL) in the Microsoft Defender portal. This…

Modern Workspace Pro 19 December 2025Admin impact, New feature, Stay informedNo Comments

Microsoft Purview

Microsoft Purview: Role management update [MC1199765]

Message ID: MC1199765 [Introduction] To strengthen security when Microsoft Purview interacts with Microsoft 365 services (Exchange, SharePoint, OneDrive, and Teams), we’re updating how roles are managed in Microsoft Purview. Certain admin roles in Purview will now be mapped to three…

Modern Workspace Pro 19 December 2025Admin impact, Feature update, Stay informedNo Comments

Microsoft 365 for the web

Outlook: New and improved People Hub on Web [MC1199768]

Message ID: MC1199768 [Introduction]We’re introducing the new and improved People Hub in Outlook Web, designed to deliver a modern, multi-column contacts experience with fast search and a streamlined interface. We’re investing in fast, relevant search and modern contact management capabilities…

Modern Workspace Pro 19 December 2025Admin impact, New feature, Plan for change, User impactNo Comments

Microsoft 365 suite

Learning Activities now available in Microsoft 365 Education and Copilot [MC1199766]

Message ID: MC1199766 [Introduction] Learning Activities is now available as part of Microsoft Education experiences. This feature helps educators and students transform passive content into active learning. With just a few selections, users can create engaging practice activities such as…

Modern Workspace Pro 19 December 2025New feature, Plan for change, User impactNo Comments

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…