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This newsletter covers Microsoft’s July updates that make work easier and faster. Copilot got smarter with better chat history, writing help, and audio summaries. Teams added features like quick meeting joins, emoji-triggered actions, and color customization. Outlook now works better offline, and OneNote and OneDrive got small upgrades to help you stay organized.

Learn how to enforce session timeout policies in Microsoft 365 to protect sensitive data, reduce unauthorized access, and secure web apps across all devices — especially in hybrid and remote work environments.

Learn how to stop sensitive files from being downloaded on mobile devices using Microsoft 365 tools like Conditional Access, Sensitivity Labels, and Defender for Cloud Apps. Step-by-step guide with real-world scenarios, compliance tips, and admin checklists.

This newsletter covers key Microsoft 365 and Copilot updates for June 2025, including Copilot Chat integration across core apps, smarter email prioritization in Outlook mobile, enhanced Teams features like interactive agents and saved messages, and new ContextIQ capabilities for intelligent, context-aware prompts. It also highlights voice chat and Notebooks in the Copilot mobile app, Copilot Memory for personalized assistance, and productivity boosts in Edge, SharePoint, and Outlook.

An overview of the latest Microsoft updates for May 2025 covering Microsoft Copilot, Microsoft Teams, SharePoint Online and Microsoft 365 Apps.

Monthly updates, news & events from Microsoft to help you & your business grow & get best out the Microsoft services.

Monthly updates, news & events from Microsoft to help you & your business grow & get best out the Microsoft services.

Monthly updates, news & events from Microsoft to help you & your business grow & get best out the Microsoft services.

Monthly updates, news & events from Microsoft to help you & your business grow & get best out the Microsoft services.

This blog explores three methods to manage security roles in PowerApps: using multiple SharePoint lists, SharePoint Groups, and item-level permissions. Each method offers unique advantages for role-based access control, ensuring sensitive data is accessible only to authorized users. Step-by-step guidance is provided for setting up these methods and integrating them within PowerApps to enhance data security and streamline app development.

This blog explores three methods to manage security roles in PowerApps: using multiple SharePoint lists, SharePoint Groups, and item-level permissions. Each method offers unique advantages for role-based access control, ensuring sensitive data is accessible only to authorized users. Step-by-step guidance is provided for setting up these methods and integrating them within PowerApps to enhance data security and streamline app development.

Explore top strategies to optimize your Microsoft 365 security posture for maximum protection. This blog provides insights into the evolving threat landscape, the importance of enhancing security posture, and practical strategies to strengthen your M365 environment. Learn about common threats, the role of multi-factor authentication, data loss prevention, regular security audits, and the importance of user education. The blog also includes real-world examples of security breaches and case studies demonstrating the effectiveness of robust security measures.

Explore how Microsoft 365 Copilot can transform your business by integrating AI into daily operations. Learn to boost productivity, make informed decisions, and gain a competitive edge with AI-powered tools designed for efficiency and innovation.

This user guide is designed to help users effectively use the Penthara Organization Chart for Microsoft Teams App. It provides step-by-step instructions and information about its features, functions, and best practices. With this guide, you’ll be able to navigate and utilize the app’s capabilities to their fullest potential.

This Administration guide is designed to help admins effectively use the Asset & Inventory Management (AIM) App. It provides step-by-step instructions and information about its features, functions, and best practices.

This user guide is designed to help users effectively use the Asset & Inventory Management (AIM) App. It provides step-by-step instructions and information about its features, functions, and best practices.

This deployment guide is designed to help admins effectively deploy the Asset & Inventory Management (AIM) app to their environment. It provides step-by-step instructions and information about deploying the app in the environment.

This deployment guide is designed to help admins effectively deploy the Starfleet Stash app to their environment. It provides step-by-step instructions and information about deploying the app in the environment.

This Guide is designed to help admins and users effectively use the Starfleet Stash App. It provides step-by-step instructions and information about its features, functions, and best practices.

Cybersecurity threats are constantly evolving, keeping IT professionals on their toes. But what if you had a powerful AI assistant by your side, proactively hunting threats and simplifying security operations? Enter Microsoft Copilot for Security, a game-changer in the cybersecurity landscape.

Explore the alternative to in-built Microsoft Org Chart - Penthara Org Chart for MS Teams. Discover its capabilities, such as seamless integration with SharePoint user profiles and Azure AD, advanced search functionality, and customizable user cards. Enhance collaboration with clear hierarchy views and enjoy simple installation.

The article outlines 9 key insights from the 2023 Microsoft Digital Defense Report, including topics such as basic security practices, ransomware trends, password attacks, BEC incidents, nation-state targeting, IoT/OT vulnerabilities, AI-powered cyberattacks, and supply chain risks.

Explore Penthara's dynamic 2023—new spaces, anniversaries, and shared moments. Join our heartfelt gratitude, celebratory culture, and exciting plans for 2024. Experience the essence of our unique journey and the promise of more awesomeness ahead!

Want to learn how to design, build, and publish a custom together mode background for Microsoft Teams? Our blog provides step-by-step instructions on how to make and publish custom-together mode Teams backgrounds using Canva and Scene Studio Editor in a matter of hours.

In this blog, we will discuss the overview of Identity Secure Score in Azure AD and the top 5 configurations that will improve your Secure Score. These recommendations come from working in the Azure AD security space for multiple years across different industry verticals.

In today's fast-paced and ever-changing business landscape, companies are constantly looking for ways to optimize their processes, reduce costs, and increase efficiency. The Microsoft Power Platform offers a range of solutions that can help businesses achieve these goals.

In today's fast-paced business environment, organizations are constantly seeking ways to streamline their processes, increase efficiency, and reduce costs. One powerful tool that can help achieve these goals is Microsoft Power Apps.

Penthara Technologies has partnered with Ambuja Manovikas Kendra (AMK) to support the education of differently-abled children. From sponsoring two children to encouraging employee involvement with AMK, this collaboration aims to create an inclusive and supportive environment, empowering every child to reach their full potential.

Are you a business owner or security decision-maker looking for the best antivirus solution to protect your data? Read on. This blog will guide you on what aspects you must look at to choose the best Antivirus for your business.

M365 Saturday Bangalore 2022 - a remarkable one-day free community event with huge success on 3rd Dec 2022 at Microsoft Office, Bangalore. Organized by the Microsoft Saturday Bangalore user group, one of the best platforms for tech geeks to join as members, attendees, or even speakers to learn, grow and share knowledge with others. Let's have a look at the recap of the event.

In our recent initiative with the IIMPACT Foundation, Penthara Technologies sponsored two learning centres aimed at empowering underprivileged girls with quality education and life skills. This partnership aims to enhance girl literacy, reduce inequality, and create robust communities by supporting girl education.

This blog discusses how cyberattacks originating from business emails can be minimized and prevented. Alongside, a bonus guide is also mentioned that has a full in-depth analysis and instructions that are mentioned for advanced business email security in M365 that is completely free to download.

This article will help to enable unlimited (auto-expanding) Archive on a user mailbox or for the entire organization. It also explains the features of the unlimited (auto-expanding) Archive and its accessibility.

You don’t need to put in the hours to get better at design. While discussing the benefits of designing every day in this blog, I share 5 amazing 30-day challenges that will help you get better at designing indigestible, byte-sized daily exercises. Read on and take the first step towards building daily design practice.

Learn how to master People Picker columns in SharePoint from the Power Apps canvas app. In this blog post, you will find detailed step-by-step instructions on creating, updating, and clearing People Picker columns for single and multi-user setups in SharePoint.

Designers know that innovative ideas do not just appear out of thin air. Instead, they spark when we are most inspired. This blog discusses the sources to find inspiration from and different techniques to turn that inspiration into innovative ideas for your next design project. If you’re feeling uninspired or stuck, then this blog is for you.

Penthara Technologies has successfully completed a cloth donation drive - Mission Do Garmi, with the help of volunteers and donators. This blog showcases our contribution to helping a few slums survive this winter in a better way.

This blog is about how to restrict access to any application from different office locations in the world by using conditional access policies in Microsoft Azure. We are using specific IP address ranges to identify and name our office locations.

This article will help achieve the erstwhile incoming email functionality using Power Automate, aka flows from specific domains. The flow can handle multiple attachments and special characters in the subject line. In addition, it includes failure notifications at multiple stages.

Mockups are an essential part of the creative process. However, finding high-quality mockups on the vast web can be tricky, especially free ones. In this blog post, we discuss our top 10 free mockup site choices to go to for your branding projects. We also discuss the various features of each of these sites in detail.

Learn how to create an Adaptive Card in Power Automate that posts a summary of upcoming events like Birthdays, Work Anniversaries and Holidays to an MS Teams Channel. The source of these events is the SharePoint legacy calendar app. Advanced Dynamic JSON Adaptive Card implementation has been covered extensively in this example.

Appreciation of an employee with an office birthday celebration is always a great idea. Here are some great tips for an awesome and inexpensive office birthday celebration.

There are a couple of ways to add CSS into HTML within SPFx solution and in this article, you are going to learn how to do in different ways and advantages and disadvantages of using those ways. You will learn what CSS is and most importantly how to add dynamic classes in SPFx solution.

Learn how to implement best practices while improving the performance of your Power App solution. Here we cover concurrent approach, control optimizations, formula optimizations and some tips and tricks for improving the visual experience for the end user via loading spinners.

For many, the inbox is the command center for their day. It’s the way to keep track of what is going on and what needs to get done. Outlook’s Focused Inbox makes this process easier by helping you focus on the emails that matter most to you. It separates your inbox into two tabs—Focused and Other. Emails you need to act on right away are in the Focused tab, while the rest wait for you in Other.

This article will help you configure mail routing during the hybrid migration process from your on-premises mail server to Exchange Online (Microsoft 365). This will ensure zero interruption for your mail flows when some of your user mailboxes will be On-premises while the others have been migrated to Exchange Online.

This blog covers some important information that is to be kept in mind before giving the AZ-104 exam. Also, it majorly briefs whether the Microsoft documentation is enough to clear the exam or not.

As designers, we showcase our work and communicate our reasoning behind a solution through presentations. Here is a guide on getting started with impactful presentations and what to include in them.

Learn how to customize react-table within SPFx solution. In this blog post we have covered some advanced customizations and configuration options like conditional rendering of table data, adding hyperlink to table row, making a single cell clickable in a row, and maintaining pagination with react-table.

SharePoint APIs are powerful tools for building custom solutions that interact with SharePoint data and functionality. However, testing and executing these API calls can be time-consuming and complex. In this blog,You will learn how to use Postman, a popular tool for API testing, to quickly and easily work with SharePoint APIs calls.

Did you know that happiness at work is not just a nice-to-have, but a must-have? Happiness at work is not only about how much money you make, but also about how much meaning, purpose, and satisfaction you find in what you do. And it has huge benefits for both employees and employers, as well as for the wider society. In this blog, you will learn why happiness at work is essential for your well-being, productivity, and creativity, and what factors affect it beyond financial rewards.

If you are looking for a way to monitor and report the progress of your Microsoft 365 mailbox migrations, this blog is for you.You will learn how to use a PowerShell script that can generate detailed migration reports for individual users in a batch. You will be able to see the status of each mailbox, whether it is completed or in progress, and save the reports for future reference. This will help you to keep track of your migration project and communicate effectively with your stakeholders.

The objective of this article is to understand how we can use Power Automate aka Flow to calculate the due date for a task excluding holidays and weekends.

Ready to Empower Your SPFx React Solutions? Unlock the true potential of your SPFx React solutions. Learn how to use the useEffect() hook in your functional components to handle side effects, manage state, and optimize performance. Also learn about the different scenarios in your SPFx React solutions that you can apply useEffect to achieve the desired functionality and behavior.

How does one become a graphic designer without formal education? In this blog, they will share with you their story of how they taught themselves graphic design online and landed an internship at Penthara Technologies. Learn about the challenges and opportunities that they faced in their first month as a self-taught graphic designer. Gain insights and tips into improving your skills and portfolio as a graphic designer.

Redux is a framework that is responsible for managing the state for most of the popular front-end frameworks, such as React, Angular, etc. You can build web parts using any of the frameworks using redux. (Insert basics of redux)

Do you want to learn how to create adaptive cards in Microsoft Teams that can interact with SharePoint lists and respond to user actions? In this blog, we will show you how to use Power Automate to send dynamic data from SharePoint to Teams as adaptive cards. You will also see how to customize the adaptive cards for different departments and provide them with relevant rejection reasons. This way, you can avoid hard-coding the adaptive cards and make them more flexible and user-friendly. Read on to find out how to achieve this with some simple steps and screenshots.

CSS is a powerful tool for customizing your SharePoint Framework solutions, but it also comes with some challenges and pitfalls. In this blog, you will learn how to avoid common issues such as style conflicts, third-party library integration, and hard-coded values. You will also discover the best practices and recommendations from Microsoft for using CSS in SPFx solutions.

Learn about the everyday life at Penthara Technologies and get a first hand look inside our working culture.

In this blog post, we will cover an important and common aspect of OneDrive for Business (ODB) administration, which is an important tool for business management, here the use of different tools and knowledge could really help improve a business results. A request that reaches Office 365 admins many times is to disable ODB for specific user(s) while doing a speed test.

Microsoft Teams is a versatile collaboration tool that can be enhanced with numerous third-party integrations to streamline workflows and boost productivity. This blog highlights 30 essential integrations that can transform how your team works. From adding Excel spreadsheets and PowerPoint presentations to your Teams tabs, to leveraging tools like Trello for project management and Hootsuite for social media management, these integrations offer a wide range of functionalities. Whether you need to manage tasks with Planner, share insights with Power BI, or collaborate on documents with SharePoint, this comprehensive list has got you covered. Explore these integrations to make the most out of Microsoft Teams and enhance your team’s efficiency.

Penthara Technologies earns distinction through demonstrated technology success and customer commitment. Mohali, Punjab, India — Feb, 14, 2017 — Penthara Technologies, today announced it has achieved a silver Small and Midmarket Cloud Solutions competency, demonstrating its ability to meet Microsoft Corp.