Mike Rosoft

Amazon EC2 C8i and C8i-flex instances are now available in Africa (Cape Town) and Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) regions

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C8i and C8i-flex instances are available in the Africa (Cape Town) and Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) regions. These instances are powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors, available only on AWS, delivering the…

Modern Workspace Pro 16 March 2026

Amazon Web Services

Amazon Neptune now supports reading S3 data using openCyper

Amazon Neptune now supports reading data from Amazon S3 within openCypher queries. Through the new `neptune.read()` procedure, customers now have an additional option of federating with external data stored in S3 versus needing to load data into Neptune. Organizations using Neptune…

Modern Workspace Pro 16 March 2026

Power Platform

Power Platform – Information regarding the end of support for Global Discovery Service (GDS) API [MC1253577]

Message ID: MC1253577 On June 8, 2026, the Global Discovery Service (GDS) API will have reached end of support.How does this affect me?The legacy Global Discovery Service (GDS) REST API endpoints hosted at globaldisco.crm.dynamics.com will no longer be available.Deprecated GDS…

Modern Workspace Pro 16 March 2026Admin impact, Retirement, Stay informed

Microsoft 365 apps

(Updated) Microsoft 365 Copilot Apps installation on devices with Microsoft 365 Apps [MC1152323]

Message ID: MC1152323 (Updated) Updated March 16, 2026: We have temporarily disabled the automatic installation of the Microsoft 365 Copilot app to eligible devices with the Microsoft 365 desktop apps. We will provide another update once we re-enable these installations.IntroductionStarting…

Modern Workspace Pro 16 March 2026Admin impact, Feature update, Plan for change, Updated message, User impact

Amazon Web Services

Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB 3 Now Supports Expanded Multi-Node Cluster Configurations

Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB now supports expanded multi-node cluster configurations for InfluxDB 3 Enterprise edition, enabling you to scale clusters up to 15 nodes for demanding production workloads requiring high read throughput and high availability. With this launch, you can…

Modern Workspace Pro 16 March 2026

Amazon Web Services

Announcing AWS Partner Central agents to accelerate co-sell

Today, AWS announces the general availability of AWS Partner Central agents, new AI-powered capabilities designed to accelerate partner co-selling with AWS. Built on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, these agentic capabilities work alongside partner sales teams to shorten sales cycles and simplify…

Modern Workspace Pro 16 March 2026

MC1443517: Microsoft Teams Lets External Presenters Manage Event Production Controls

MC1443520: Microsoft Teams Adds Option to Assign Production Tool Control in Meetings and Webinars

MC1443523: Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat Adds Planner Task and Plan Management

MC1443518: Microsoft Teams Adds Expandable Presenter Panel for Better Visibility in Manage What Attendees See

MC1443510: Microsoft 365 Performs One-Time Cleanup of Aged Pending Requests in All Agents

MC1443511: Microsoft Teams Adds Auto Attendant Voicemail Management to Queues App

MC1443514: Microsoft Planner Adds Planner Agent Chat to Basic Plans

MC1413302: Viva Engage Adds Discussion Post Previews for Better Content Validation Before Publishing

MC1431365: Copilot Analytics Adds Agent 365 Dashboard for Managers in Viva Insights

MC1330886: Microsoft 365 Copilot Adds AI-Powered Suggested Edits in Copilot Pages

Amazon EC2 C8i and C8i-flex instances are now available in Africa (Cape Town) and Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) regions

Amazon Neptune now supports reading S3 data using openCyper

Power Platform – Information regarding the end of support for Global Discovery Service (GDS) API [MC1253577]

(Updated) Microsoft 365 Copilot Apps installation on devices with Microsoft 365 Apps [MC1152323]

Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB 3 Now Supports Expanded Multi-Node Cluster Configurations

Announcing AWS Partner Central agents to accelerate co-sell

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