Mike Rosoft

You can now preview Amazon S3 Tables in the S3 console

You can now preview your Amazon S3 Tables directly in the S3 console without having to write a SQL query. You can view the schema and sample rows of your tables stored in S3 Tables to better understand and gather…

Modern Workspace Pro 25 September 2025No Comments

Amazon Web Services

Amazon EC2 I7i instances now available in AWS Europe (Milan) and AWS US West (N. California)

AWS is announcing the availability of high performance Storage optimized Amazon EC2 I7i instances in AWS Europe (Milan) and US West (N. California) regions. Powered by 5th Gen Intel Xeon Processors with an all-core turbo frequency of 3.2 GHz, these…

Modern Workspace Pro 25 September 2025No Comments

Microsoft Viva

(Updated) Microsoft Viva Pulse: Updates to data retention policy [MC1158895]

Message ID: MC1158895 (Updated) Updated September 25, 2025: We are updating from a 3-year data retention policy to an indefinite data retention period, as long as your tenant maintains a valid Microsoft Viva Pulse subscription.[Introduction:]We’re updating the data retention policy…

Modern Workspace Pro 25 September 2025Admin impact, Feature update, Stay informed, Updated message, User impactNo Comments

Amazon Web Services

Amazon CloudWatch now supports resource tags when monitoring vended metrics

Today, Amazon CloudWatch announces support for a new tag-based telemetry experience to help customers monitor their metrics and set up their alarms using AWS resources tags. This new capability simplifies monitoring cloud infrastructure at scale by automatically adapting alarms and…

Modern Workspace Pro 25 September 2025No Comments

Cloudflare Pipelines

Pipelines – Pipelines now supports SQL transformations and Apache Iceberg

Today, we're launching the new Cloudflare Pipelines: a streaming data platform that ingests events, transforms them with SQL, and writes to R2 as Apache Iceberg tables or Parquet files. Pipelines can receive events via HTTP endpoints or Worker bindings, transform…

Modern Workspace Pro 25 September 2025No Comments

Cloudflare R2

R2 – R2 Data Catalog now supports compaction

You can now enable automatic compaction for Apache Iceberg tables in R2 Data Catalog to improve query performance. Compaction is the process of taking a group of small files and combining them into fewer larger files. This is an important…

Modern Workspace Pro 25 September 2025No 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…

MC1410524: Microsoft 365 Apps Rolls Out Current Channel Update for June 2026

MC1409304: Microsoft Teams Adds Facilitator to Detect and Resolve Knowledge Gaps in Meetings

(Updated) Microsoft Teams: Guest invitation emails will be sent from the inviter’s email address [MC1325416]

Power BI Desktop Bridge (Preview)

(Updated) Microsoft Teams: Private chat for organizers and presenters in structured meetings, webinars, and town halls [MC1188222]

Sales in Microsoft 365 Copilot – Engage customers across multiple channels (web, voice, sms & email) [MC1410324]

(Updated) Viva Learning: Academy support on mobile [MC1330883]

(Updated) Automatic recording and transcription for Teams Call Queues [MC1401299]

(Updated) Microsoft 365 Copilot: Legal agent available in Frontier worldwide [MC1388706]

Microsoft Copilot Studio – Get Microsoft 365 Copilot agent suggestions based on your work in Copilot Studio [MC1410017]

You can now preview Amazon S3 Tables in the S3 console

Amazon EC2 I7i instances now available in AWS Europe (Milan) and AWS US West (N. California)

(Updated) Microsoft Viva Pulse: Updates to data retention policy [MC1158895]

Amazon CloudWatch now supports resource tags when monitoring vended metrics

Pipelines – Pipelines now supports SQL transformations and Apache Iceberg

R2 – R2 Data Catalog now supports compaction

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