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Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Enable users to report suspicious Teams messages in Plan 1 [MC1219788]

Message ID: MC1219788 [Introduction] We’re expanding the ability for users to report suspicious Microsoft Teams messages to customers with Microsoft Defender for Office 365 Plan 1. Previously available only to Plan 2, this update helps security teams identify and investigate…

Modern Workspace Pro 21 January 2026Admin impact, New feature, Stay informed, User impactNo Comments

Agent Mode in Microsoft Copilot for PowerPoint for the web [MC1219792]

Message ID: MC1219792 [Introduction] Agent Mode in PowerPoint for Microsoft 365 Copilot introduces a conversational way for users to edit presentations while maintaining existing formatting, structure, and branding. This enhancement enables users to guide Copilot to update slides, refine layouts,…

Modern Workspace Pro 21 January 2026New feature, Plan for change, User impactNo Comments

Microsoft Entra

Custom greetings in voice call authentication will retire on Feb 28, 2026 [MC1219798]

Message ID: MC1219798 As communicated in MC1125485 and Configure Microsoft Entra multifactor authentication - Microsoft Entra ID | Microsoft Learn, we will retire the Custom greetings feature in Voice call authentication on February 28, 2026. This feature allowed organizations to…

Modern Workspace Pro 21 January 2026Admin impact, Plan for change, Retirement, User impactNo Comments

Microsoft Teams

Brand impersonation protection for Teams Calling [MC1219793]

Message ID: MC1219793 [Introduction] Brand Impersonation Protection for Teams Calling adds proactive safeguards against fraudulent or deceptive external callers who attempt to appear as trusted organizations. This helps reduce social-engineering risks and improves tenant security when users receive first-contact external…

Modern Workspace Pro 21 January 2026Admin impact, New feature, Stay informed, User impactNo Comments

Amazon Web Services

SageMaker Unified Studio adds support for cross-Region and IAM role-based subscriptions

Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio now supports cross-Region subscriptions and IAM role-based subscriptions for simple and flexible data access and governance. With cross-Region support, you can subscribe to AWS Glue tables and views, as well as Amazon Redshift tables and views…

Modern Workspace Pro 21 January 2026No Comments

Amazon Web Services

Amazon Aurora and RDS for PostgreSQL, MySQL and MariaDB now support r8g, r7g, and r7i database instances in additional AWS Regions

AWS Graviton4-based R8g database instances are now generally available for Amazon Aurora (MySQL and PostgreSQL compatibility) and Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MariaDB in additional Asia Pacific regions (Hong Kong, Osaka, and Jakarta). R8G instances are now supported for…

Modern Workspace Pro 21 January 2026No Comments

AI Music Generator on GCP Release Notes: January 31, 20262 February 2026
It's great to see updates to Google SecOps SIEM and SOAR rolling out across all regions. With cloud security becoming…
AI Music Generator on GCP Release Notes: January 23, 202625 January 2026
The combination of Automotive AI and GCP's other services like BigQuery is going to be a powerful toolkit for developers…
AI Music Generator on Announcing general availability of Amazon EC2 M4 Max Mac instances24 January 2026
It's great that AWS is now supporting the latest Mac hardware for EC2 instances. However, I’m curious about how the…
AI Music Generator on Amazon SageMaker HyperPod introduces enhanced lifecycle scripts debugging22 January 2026
It's great to see that SageMaker HyperPod is enhancing its lifecycle script debugging. Troubleshooting during cluster provisioning can be a…
Flux API on Announcing availability of second-generation AWS Outposts racks in 20 more countries22 January 2026
The addition of 20 new countries for AWS Outposts racks is a significant step forward for the hybrid cloud movement.…