Mike Rosoft

Manage interest is being replaced by Manage People Skills by December 31, 2025 [MC1150117]

Message ID: MC1150117 [Introduction] To streamline learning experiences and focus development efforts, we’re retiring the Manage interest feature in Viva Learning and replacing it with Manage People Skills. This change reflects our commitment to enhancing skill-based learning and simplifying admin…

Modern Workspace Pro 9 September 2025Admin impact, Plan for change, Retirement, User impactNo Comments

Amazon Web Services

Introducing improved AI assistance in Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio

Today, we are announcing improvements to the Amazon Q Developer chat experience in Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio Jupyter notebooks and adding Amazon Q Developer in the command line in Jupyter notebooks and Code Editor. By integrating with Model Context Protocol…

Modern Workspace Pro 8 September 2025No Comments

Amazon Web Services

Announcing Managed Tiered Checkpointing for Amazon SageMaker HyperPod

Today, Amazon Web Service (AWS) announces the general availability of managed tiered checkpointing for Amazon SageMaker HyperPod, a new capability designed to reduce model recovery time and minimize loss in training progress. As AI training scales, the likelihood of infrastructure…

Modern Workspace Pro 8 September 2025No Comments

Amazon Web Services

Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio announces the general availability of the Custom Blueprints

Today, AWS announced the general availability of Custom Blueprints, a new feature in Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio, part of the next generation of Amazon SageMaker. This feature allows customers to use their own managed policies as per their corporate security…

Modern Workspace Pro 8 September 2025No Comments

Amazon Web Services

AWS WAF is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Taipei) Region

Starting today, AWS WAF is available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Taipei) Region. AWS WAF is a web application firewall that helps you protect your web application resources against common web exploits and bots that can affect availability, compromise security,…

Modern Workspace Pro 8 September 2025No Comments

Microsoft 365 apps Microsoft Teams

Update: Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Teams: Unified management of Teams apps in Teams, Outlook, and the Microsoft 365 app [MC796790]

Message ID: MC796790 (Updated) Updated September 8, 2025: We have updated the title and content. Thank you for your patience.What it is Microsoft is rolling out a new feature to streamline how app and agent availability is managed across Teams,…

Modern Workspace Pro 8 September 2025Admin impact, New feature, Plan for change, Updated messageNo 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…