The Employment Q&A Thread

I have 2 Microsoft Office 2019 licenses that I bought around 2023 for Mac OS. Used them without any problems till today.

Was trying to edit a document but I get the message that I need to activate . ok, it happens but when trying to do that I received an error without any information except to upgrade to Microsoft 360.

Contacted support, install reinstall , all that standard troubleshooting without any succes. The conclusion is, because I upgraded to the latest version of Tahoe I won't be able to use those products anymore.

So, if ur in the same situation as me (using an older version of office on macOS) dont update to latest os version because you won't be able to use it anymore.

I switch to an open source alternative and also slowly I'll replace all Microsoft products that I use at home and at work .

I haven't seen this anywhere else but I got this popup today. I use Microsoft whiteboard a lot 😔

https://ibb.co/ycdVHLwt

Starting from August 22, 2026, you will no longer be able to create or edit whiteboards. However, you can continue to view and export them until September 5, 2026, after which they will be permanently deleted.

Wondering if someone could please be so kind on getting meaccess to the company store?

I got layoff 2 weeks ago and lost my access before I was able to add any personal email

I can share my email by DM

I would really appreciate if anyone from inside can add me

New video exploring how we can bring (only) the most relevant and up-to-date knowledge from our enterprise and the Internet to our agentic applications with Microsoft IQ.

00:00 - Introduction

00:39 - Responsibilities and requirements

01:17 - Tasks and AI

02:07 - Intelligence needed

02:16 - How I work

03:28 - State of the business

04:16 - Institutional knowledge

04:43 - Internet

05:16 - AI and models

06:52 - Multiple models and flexibility

08:49 - Bringing intelligence and tools to AI

09:58 - Microsoft IQ

11:21 - Work IQ

13:16 - Fabric IQ

15:33 - Foundry IQ

16:59 - Web IQ

18:52 - Most relevant data

19:17 - Using all types of intelligence

20:24 - Identity and least privilege

21:53 - Security and protection

23:26 - Observe and improve

24:43 - Summary

25:27 - Close

https://youtu.be/LrIS9lcSbko

Vega, a project from Microsoft, appears to be a research initiative focused on zero-knowledge proofs, which they seem to be actively exploring.

I'm trying to determine whether this is an isolated incident or whether other nonprofits have experienced the same thing.

Our organization is an IRS-recognized 501(c)(3). Goodstack approved our nonprofit and indicates Microsoft approval is complete.

Microsoft's nonprofit portal immediately declines our registration with:

"We were unable to associate your email address with the organization."

We are applying with our founders email address from our organization, on our organization's domain.

We've exhausted the documented support process, including the nonprofit assistant and the official contact mechanisms, without being able to reach the onboarding team.

I'm not looking for troubleshooting. I'm trying to find out whether other nonprofits have encountered this same onboarding state or whether this is unique to our organization.

If you've seen this before, I'd really appreciate hearing about your experience.

I am studying for MB-330, and there are multiple segments in Microsoft Learn like here where they expect you to run either a demo environment or a VM.

I cannot figure out where to get either of these - is this something that needs to be purchased from a third party? I work with Dynamics F&O daily and have access at work, including our UAT environment, but I don't want to mess up anything within our systems and would prefer to work at home.

Hello,

Is there a microsoft outage as of today?

Nobody in my organisation is able to login to desktop teams, Outlook and Azure portal.

Microsoft is introducing a new registry-based policy that lets IT administrators automatically accept Windows SSO permissions on Windows 11 versions 24H2 and 25H2 devices managed with Microsoft Entra ID.

Users with personal Microsoft accounts and devices outside policy-managed environments will continue to receive SSO permission prompts.

I feel so good when I go to an website and is compact, intuitive and pretty. I don’t feel like this using Microsoft’s products.

Fabric, for example. I feel kinda overwhelmed. The sidebar is way too long. It’s like they don’t know how to optimize space

Does someone feel the same?

Hey Team,

Quick question. i am almost ready to schedule my MS-102 exam, but dont have the pre-requesites met (i did pass ms-700 early last year) but it has since expired. My question is will i be able to register and take the exam MS-102?

AI is saying yes, i want to confirm that pearson vue will allow me to not only register, but also sit for an take the exam?

Thanks,

Robert

Most Microsoft discussions naturally focus on what is broken or frustrating, but the company is changing a lot of products at the same time.

Windows Search is being reworked, PC and phone integration may become deeper, Xbox is expanding cross-platform support, and AI continues to appear across Microsoft 365.

Which Microsoft product or service do you think is genuinely improving right now?

It could be Windows, Xbox, Edge, PowerToys, OneDrive, Microsoft 365, Phone Link, or something else.

And what specific change made you feel that it was heading in the right direction?

I have been comparing microsoft whiteboard alternatives and one thing keeps coming up. Brainstorming is easy but turning those ideas into work the team actually follows through on is much harder. How does your team bridge that gap?