Microsoft previously announced that all copies of a photo in a user’s OneDrive Gallery each of their saved albums would count toward the company’s storage limit
Microsoft Teams gets 3D animated avatars as they develop Mesh Team Meetings to compete with Facebook’s Meta. A Metaverse race in augmented reality is happening between Microsoft and Facebook.
Microsoft wants a piece of the metaverse, too, so at its Ignite conference today, the company announced 3D avatars for those Teams meetings where you don’t want to be on camera. Those animated personalized avatars are part of what Microsoft calls ‘Mesh for Teams,’ which combines the company’s Mesh platform (not to be confused with […]
Mar 7, 2021 10:52 EST with 0 comments
The week brought everything from Ignite news aplenty – as expected – to a rather serious set of Exchange on-prem vulnerabilities, and the usual Windows Insider builds. You can find info about that, as well as much more below, in your Microsoft digest for the week of February 28 – March 6.
An unfortunate Exchange
CVE-2021-26855, CVE-2021-26857, CVE-2021-26858, and CVE-2021-27065, otherwise known as the set of vulnerabilities in Exchange on-premises servers that were used by state-sponsored Chinese hacking group HAFNIUM in its attacks this week (and the days prior).
While news of the exploits started circulating at the beginning of the year, the vulnerability chaining did not happen until earlier this week. Microsoft has outlined a number of Indicators of Compromise (or IOCs), along with pushing out out-of-band patches for all affected Exchange on-prem servers - versions 2013 through to 2019. The company has urged admins to