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Microsoft's Windows Search Makeover Gives You a 'No Web' Toggle—Here's What It Changes
After years of complaints about web results cluttering Windows Search, Microsoft has finally begun testing a simple fix: a toggle that turns them off. The new Search experience, now rolling out to...
WSUS Sync Delays Disrupt July’s Patch Tuesday: What Windows Admins Must Do Now
Microsoft has confirmed that a server-side metadata buildup is causing significant synchronization delays and timeouts for Windows Server Update Services (WSUS). The problem, which peaked around July...
What Microsoft Teams' new inline search means for your file sharing — and why IT is worried
Next September, typing an @ symbol in a Microsoft Teams chat will do more than mention a colleague — it will let you search for and drop in files, past chats, channels, and meetings without ever...
The SharePoint ‘Alert Me’ Feature Is Dead. Here’s How to Keep Your Notifications Working.
{ "title": "The SharePoint ‘Alert Me’ Feature Is Dead. Here’s How to Keep Your Notifications Working.", "content": "For millions of SharePoint Online users, the familiar “Alert Me”...
ETHS Ransomware Recovery: How Device Sweeps and System Rebuilds Are Reshaping the School Year
When Evanston Township High School students walk through the doors on August 17, the familiar click of a working Chromebook or the smooth login to a class portal is no longer a given. In a July 16...
Microsoft Cancels Teams Copilot Feature That Would Have Analyzed Shared Screens in Recorded Meetings
Microsoft has quietly abandoned a planned expansion of Copilot in Teams that would have let the AI assistant parse the content of desktop screen shares during recorded meetings, according to a...
OneDrive Pulls Support for Older Windows 10 Versions on August 15, 2026 — What You Need to Know
Microsoft has set a hard deadline for OneDrive sync on Windows 10: starting August 15, 2026, PCs running versions older than 22H2 will no longer be supported. The sync client won’t instantly stop...
KB5101650 Hands IT the Power to Silence Entra SSO Consent Prompts on Windows 11
{ "title": "KB5101650 Hands IT the Power to Silence Entra SSO Consent Prompts on Windows 11", "content": "With the July 14, 2026 Patch Tuesday update, Microsoft introduced a registry policy that...
Microsoft 365 Action Segments Let IT Auto-Target Inactive Copilot Users With In-Product Prompts
Microsoft has officially rolled out Action Segments for Organizational Messages in Microsoft 365, a feature that lets IT administrators dynamically direct adoption prompts at users who haven’t...
Microsoft Swaps Copilot’s Engine to GPT-5.6: Here’s What Changes in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint Starting July 9
On July 9, 2026, Microsoft began rolling out OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 as the new default AI model for Microsoft 365 Copilot, instantly upgrading the assistant’s reasoning, context handling, and accuracy...
Microsoft to Pull Plug on OWA Light for On-Premises Exchange, Targeting August 2026
Microsoft is formally retiring the lightweight version of Outlook on the Web for on-premises Exchange Server, with removal planned for a future update around August 2026. The company’s Exchange...
Thurrott’s Snap Max Guide Reveals Hidden Windows 11 Window Management Tricks
On July 8, 2026, veteran Windows journalist Paul Thurrott published a pivotal new section in his Windows 11 Field Guide: the Snap Max Guide. This one-stop deep-dive promises to be the most exhaustive...