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Microsoft Project Replaced by Planner

As of August, Microsoft has retired Microsoft Project for the web and has folded its functionality into Microsoft Planner. Project in Teams and Roadmap in Teams are affected similarly. If there are any further question as to the changes the official notice is...

Changes To Grammarly

As changes have been made to the Grammarly application, we are updating our service offerings to reflect them. The Grammarly Add-In for Word has been deployed to only Mac users, while Grammarly has released a new standalone application for use on Windows machines....

Microsoft Teams Facilitator Brings AI Notes to Teams Chats

Microsoft has enabled AI Notes for users as part of its Teams public preview option. AI Notes serves to generate real-time summaries of meetings and conversations as they are being had, automatically updating to reflect key decisions and action items as they become...

New Penn State Powerpoint Templates

Penn State users should be able to locate new Penn State themed Powerpoint templates by navigating to office365.psu.edu >> Powerpoint >> Office Templates >> The Pennsylvania State University >> Office Templates or by following this link....

Improvements to Tackle Spam In Outlook

Microsoft has rolled out several changes to improve Outlook's capabilities to tackle spam and spoofed email aliases. For Penn State users, you may notice some differences when accessing your email, especially from external senders. Chief among those differences...

Microsoft Unveils New Copilot+ PC

At the end of June, Microsoft announced the Copilot+ PC, a new line of laptops integrated with their Copilot AI. While several features are currently still in development, this is likely the first step in an ongoing process to further integrate AI into all of...

Power BI Best Practices

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ChatGPT to become “more direct”

On April 11 OpenAI announced changes to ChatGPT's GPT4-Turbo, including improvements in math, writing, logical reasoning, coding, and a more up-to-date database. Additionally, writing with GPT4-Turbo promises to be "more direct, less verbose, and use more...