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Your AI Notetaker May Be Stuck in the Lobby: Microsoft Teams’ New Bot Policy and the July Deadline
If your team relies on an AI meeting assistant to transcribe, take notes, or record your video calls, you may soon find that bot waiting in the lobby—unable to join until a human lets it in....
Don’t Let Users Archive SharePoint Files Without a Plan: Disable the Default Before Your Pilot
Microsoft’s SharePoint Online now includes file-level archiving for every site that has Microsoft 365 Archive enabled—and it’s turned on by default. Any employee with edit permissions can...
Microsoft Ships Coreutils for Windows with Conflict Manager: A Safe Adoption Roadmap
Microsoft released Coreutils for Windows on June 2, 2026, bringing native Unix-style commands like ls, cat, and grep directly to the Windows command line. A June 16 servicing update added the...
Exchange Online's Meeting Organizer Transfer Cmdlet: Rollout Timeline, Limitations, and How to Test It
Microsoft has begun rolling out a new Exchange Online PowerShell cmdlet that allows administrators to change the organizer for an existing meeting or recurring series—a capability that has been...
Neowin’s New Winget Safety Guide: Why You Should Never Install Apps Without an Exact ID
Neowin published a security-focused guide on July 19, 2026, walking Windows 11 users through the safest way to install apps with the Windows Package Manager (winget). The key takeaway: relying on...
Windows 11’s Win+V Isn’t Just Paste: How to Unlock Clipboard History, Sync, and PowerShell Hacks
Most Windows users have two keyboard shortcuts seared into muscle memory: Ctrl+C to copy and Ctrl+V to paste. Far fewer know that pressing Win+V opens a panel of recent clips, a built-in clipboard...
WMIC’s Final Days: How to Identify Your Motherboard in Windows 11 After Microsoft’s Big Change
Microsoft has confirmed that the venerable WMIC command-line tool is on borrowed time in Windows 11, with a complete removal now scheduled for the operating system's next feature update. For the...
PowerShell 7.4 LTS Countdown: Why Bypassing 7.5 Is the Only Smart Move
Microsoft has marked November 10, 2026, as the support finish line for PowerShell 7.4 LTS—and, in a scheduling twist that will shape every migration plan, the non-LTS 7.5 release reaches end of...
Azure Monitor’s Legacy Data Collector API Won’t Stop Ingesting in 2026—But Support Ends. Here’s How to Prepare.
Microsoft has quietly confirmed that the venerable HTTP Data Collector API for Azure Monitor won’t just stop working on September 14, 2026. According to a newly updated response on Microsoft...
Microsoft Gives IT Admins Extra Six Months to Replace Exchange Online PowerShell Password Scripts
The cutoff for using stored credentials in Exchange Online automation is moving from July 2026 to December 2026, Microsoft confirmed in an updated Message Center advisory on July 16. The change...
Forget Manual Updates: How Microsoft’s Winget One-Liner Can Refresh Your Apps in Seconds
Microsoft’s Windows Package Manager, better known as Winget, now lets you update virtually any compatible application on your PC with a single command. The feature, spotlighted by Neowin on July...
Microsoft Ships Fix for PowerShell Path Traversal RCE (CVE-2026-40400) – Here’s What to Patch First
Microsoft released its July 14, 2026 security updates fixing CVE-2026-40400, a high-severity remote code execution vulnerability in Windows PowerShell that earned a CVSS 3.1 score of 8.0. The flaw...