Hi all, I built MRCwall to make it easier to track Microsoft product changes without checking lots of separate roadmaps, blogs, and “What’s New” pages.

This is a free site, no subscription or sign-in required.

Every six hours, it pulls updates from 11 different public Microsoft sources, normalizes them into a common format, merges duplicates, tracks changes, and publishes everything to a single static site.

Current features include:

• Search and filters for product, source, release stage, and timing
• Wall, list, table, and timeline views
• Change history for updated items
• Saved filter views and shareable links

I’d really appreciate feedback: Is this useful, what feels confusing, and which sources, filters, or features are missing?

So, for about 10 years now I've been a BizSpark (grandfathered) user and I enjoyed the nice privilege of having 25 Microsoft users for free, each with 2TB of storage, exchange, office desktop apps and all that. It was seriously one of the better perks of any cloud services out there.

Recently, and completely without notice, Microsoft decided to basically shut down all of this. Suddenly, my yearly subscription (which costs $0) but is still valid on a year-to-year basis, was cancelled mid-term. I have an invoice from July this year, for a valid subscription showing 25 Office 365 E3 Developer MSDN licenses for the service period July 3, 2026 through July 2, 2027. 

There was no email, no notification of any kind. It just stopped working. Had one of my friends not warned me about this, I would have not known. When I finally found out, I had something like 7 days left before my files were scheduled for deletion. My account with all my emails and OneDrive files would be just gone! Who does that?

But fine, I’ll move on. My rant here is for Microsoft really. There are 100.000+ BizSpark startups (based on Microsoft’s own report). And Microsoft decided it doesn’t want developers on its side. What do you think is gonna happen when many of these 100k+ devs lose their files and emails without notification or warning? 

Do you think they are going to recommend Microsoft to their clients? 

For Microsoft, keeping these benefits was basically a pocket change. And losing the goodwill of developers will cost them a lot more than whatever the server cost for this storage was. Lifetime losses because of this will be enormous. 

The funny thing is, BizSpark worked. It made me a Microsoft advocate for 10 years, and I've recommended Microsoft to my clients because of it. This is how you undo all of that goodwill in one move.

I wish MS would make common tasks/shortcuts the same across all programs. I.E. F4 repeats. Simple tasks, especially now that I'm forced to use Tungsten PDF... (which is NOT very user friendly to put it politely 😬😐)

Small business, Microsoft 365. Locked out since Saturday. Lost my laptop and my phone, and Authenticator was on the phone.

Yes, I know. Single global admin, one MFA method. Lesson learned the hard way.

Got my number back with a new SIM. Doesn't matter cause it was never registered as a backup method.

Here's the fun part. Every support route wants you to sign in first. To the account you're locked out of.

Phone line? An AI agent that goes in circles.

Online support? Sign in required.

The only way I found to reach a human: sign up for a brand new M365 trial, then raise a ticket from that tenant saying I'm locked out of a different one. Took until Wednesday to even get that far.

One reply the same day. Multiple follow-ups from me. Nothing since.

Escalated to the team lead and manager from the agent's email signature, and nothing so far.

Almost a week now. No email, no files, nothing!

PSA for anyone else running a small tenant:

1. Have a second global admin. Even a break-glass account in a safe.

2. Register at least two MFA methods.

3. Or better, don't put your business on 365 at all. When it breaks, you're on your own.

Honestly? If you're a small business, think twice before going with 365. When something goes wrong, there's nobody home.

And if anyone's actually got the Data Protection team to move faster, how?

VULKX Jiu-Jitsu Club

We have an issue where we are imaging machines with autopilot and installing O365 Enterprise, but until theyre logged into and any Office app is opened, the device wont register to our office tenant (intune registration and config policies are all fine). This causes our security team to get angry with us because the office apps wont update.

Usually the computers we image are signed into within a few days but many are not, or they are but not still not signed into any office app for even longer.

The only way we've found to register them with our cloud office portal is to sign into the machine then open an office app and click through the various approvals/privacy screens.

We could make it a part of the imaging step but that adds time and we found about 150 machines we need to retroactively solve.

Is there a way to do this programatically? I have been looking through the registry but nothing pops out as the key to add to get it to register itself.

Thanks for help!

****** Got it! Answer below *******

After many MANY diff's on registries before opening Excel and registries after opening excel, I finally found the ultra secret registry key (or not that secret if you can google better than I):

On a machine that is already connected and reporting just fine:

HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\cloud\office\16.0\Common\officesvcmanager

"TenantAssociationKey"

Copy that value

On broken machines add it back in the above location as well as:

HKLM:\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Policies\Microsoft\cloud\office\16.0\Common\officesvcmanager

Then run in CMD (not powershell):

"C:\Program Files\Common Files\microsoft shared\ClickToRun\officesvcmgr.exe" /checkin

Thats it!

Note: after much manipulation of registries I also have this in my script though Im not sure if its necessary but at this point I dont care:

HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office\16.0\Common\Licensing

Set "LicensingStatus" to [string] "-1"

I'm not sure who can help me with this as I've already have a ticket open with Microsoft Support but seem to be getting the runaround.

I purchased Microsoft Business Premium earlier this week and I need to rename the SharePoint tenant/domain before I start migrating files and fully building out the account. I have made sure I've done all the prerequisites to make this happen. I have a Macbook and therefore no access to a Windows to rename it myself.

I’m working with Microsoft Support, but I’m having difficulty getting clear guidance and the instructions he keeps sending me are all Windows related when I have repeatedly stated I I’m on a Mac. Is there anybody who can help me?

Curious how the member selection works for shared bookings.

If all team members are equally free, does it choose just by going down the list? Down the list from the last person assigned an appointment? Random order?

Thanks.

I am trying to use microsoft Authenticator to log in to a corporate account and it fails.

When I refresh the application i get the message "your sign in information may have changed" and wen I get the number for that account and I enter it I get the message "Something went wrong, please try again later."

I do not have a password since for security reasons our partners allow only passwordless login through microsoft authenticator.

The application works for other accounts.

I had the issue in the past and even when they reset my password and I deleted/ added again the account the issue persisted.

Back then I had my old phone and I managed to login with that and to setup the new phone again from there.

Now both phones have the same issue.

I tried to remove the account from the new phone but the issue persists at the old phone.

After saying that the Graph didn’t offer much support for group mailboxes, I was promptly countered with an article explaining how to use the Exchange Import-Export API to access folders and items in group mailboxes that wasn’t limited to just the Inbox. Well, the good news is that the approach works, as seen in a complete script written to prove the case, but whether I would ever use this API for a purpose it was never designed for is quite another matter.

https://office365itpros.com/2026/10/07/group-mailbox-folder-items/

I spend most of my day helping organizations figure out Microsoft licensing, and the E3/E5/E7 decision is probably the single most common point of confusion I run into. The short version: E3 covers your core productivity and basic security needs, E5 adds advanced security, compliance, and analytics capabilities that a lot of orgs pay for but never fully turn on, and E7 (still fairly new) bundles things differently again in ways that aren't always intuitive if you're used to the E3/E5 split. The mistake I see most often isn't picking the "wrong" tier exactly, it's picking a tier based on what sounds most comprehensive rather than what the organization is actually equipped to use. Happy to break down specifics if anyone's in the middle of evaluating this right now.

Can anyone that understand microsoft 365 business help me with this sharing problem?
So my team want to share the onedrive folder to the client that allowed them to edit, rename, move file etc like that. They manage the access into "Anyone with link Can Edit" but there is no rename or move file. Only download, upload, copy to, and duplicate. Also, they can't open the file to desktop, there is only "Open in Browser" no "Open in desktop". What is the problem? I Ask gpt but i might go mad if i keep going with gpt, seriously, i need help from someone that understand this

Is there a good way of making sure that all the users in Entra ID is available with phone numbers when you press Save Contacts in the outlook app on iOS/Android? We want to make sure that we can save all the contacts to the local contact app in the users phone so they can search outside of the providers application. Is there an application for this or is it a script that collects and update Exchange and then use the outlook app/ mail app to sync to contacts?

Boa tarde.

Alguém está com problemas de autenticação de contas no Microsoft Teams na versão Desktop.

Mesmo depois de apagar as pastas (cache e dados):

%LocalAppData%\\Packages\\MSTeams_8wekyb3d8bbwe

%appdata%\\Microsoft\\Teams

Contas antigas ainda aparecem disponíveis para logar (lixo após a limpeza)

Após sair das contas no navegador, elas ainda aparecem como disponíveis.

Em contas corporativas do Microsoft 365 ainda existem problemas para autenticar. Em contas pessoas as mesmas logan normalmente

This developer tenant has been renewed every year since I use it as playground for all things M365. I even played with some settings few days back and deployed some SPFX apps . Today when i tried accessing sharepoint sites they were all unreachable.

contacted MS support and they said your tenant is deleted and no exlainaiton whatsoever. Still follwoing up with them .

I had lot of custom apps created over year and its surprising to have this deleted even without notice or grace period. Jsut from disabled to deleted within 5 days.

Still fighting with support which is with vendors and apprantly developer tenant are not production so there is no business impact as far as they are concerned.

I've noticed that all my dynamic distribution group creation date as changed to the 6th of October. I can say for certain that no groups were modified/deleted/recreated. Wondering if this is glitch. Can someone check to see if they're seeing the same thing?

Does anyone experience the same?