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Microsoft is reportedly advising some of its employees in China to consider transferring to other countries amid geopolitical tensions brought on by the US-China battle over advanced technologies.

A report by The Wall Street Journal claims the company is asking around 700-800 of its China-based workers involved in machine learning and cloud computing to consider moving to countries like the US, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand.

Microsoft released the public preview of a free hosting plan for WordPress on App Service on September 5, 2023. After months of previewing the service, Microsoft finally made it available to the general public.

Let’s talk about the features and what things you need to keep in mind while using the service.

Features & Limitations of the free hosting plan

Features

• PhpMyAdmin for database management
• Easy and Automated deployments from the Azure Portal
• Accelerated WP Admin utilizing local storage caching
• Inbuilt Redis cache

Things to keep in mind

• App Service F1 plan has limited…

Artificial intelligence has many benefits, and closer integration with our daily workloads has helped Microsoft’s Copilot gain popularity. However while it may be a useful addition to Windows 11, many users have complained that it’s not all that necessary in Windows Server.

According to Bob Pony, posting a screenshot to X (via WindowsReport), Copilot has now been removed from Windows Server 2025 as part of Build 26085.

Recently, Microsoft confirmed a major Windows Server issue when Domain Controllers (DCs) had LSASS memory leak whereby in extreme scenarios, it would lead to unscheduled reboots when undergoing Kerberos authentication requests. Fortunately, the company fixed it in a couple of days via Out-of-band updates.

Meanwhile, the company also recently updated its DC hardening timeline. On a new support document on its website, the company has removed a February 2024 entry as it was not related to hardening.

On the changelog for the support article, Microsoft writes:

March 10, 2024

Revised the Monthly timeline adding more hardening related content and removed the February 2024…

This week’s look back at the last seven days on the official Microsoft 365 Roadmap website reveals some new Outlook features for users and admins, along with a couple of Teams-related features.

Microsoft Outlook – New admin security features are coming and more

If you are an admin who works at a company that uses the classic Outlook for desktop, Mac, and/or mobile devices, you are getting some new security options soon:

The appearance and behavior of Report Phishing/Report Junk actions in Outlook can be controlled by admins using User Reported Settings in security.microsoft.com. Admins will be able to control whether these Report actions appear in Outlook, where these…