Neowin News Feed for: Admins

New Teams feature lets IT admins tailor recording notices for better privacy compliance

Paul Hill — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 04:08:02 +0000

IT admins can now replace standard Teams recording notices with custom text to ensure meetings comply with local privacy laws and regional requirements. Read more...

Microsoft brings Windows Admin Center support to Arm-based Copilot+ PCs

Paul Hill — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 07:10:01 +0000

Microsoft now supports Windows Admin Center on Arm-based Copilot+ PCs. IT admins can manage their entire Windows ecosystem directly from the new devices, with key features like HA deployment restored. Read more...

Windows Admin Center 2511 is now available with High Availability and major fixes

Paul Hill — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 10:10:01 +0000

Microsoft's latest Windows Admin Center release reintroduces High Availability deployment and brings significant updates, including RDP support for over thirty international keyboard layouts. Read more...

KB5063878: Microsoft confirms bug breaks Windows 11, 10, Server app installs for many users

Sayan Sen — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 06:38:01 +0000

Microsoft has confirmed another major bug that is caused by the KB5063878 Windows 11 24H2 update. However, this issue isn't limited to just this version of Windows. Read more...

Unofficial script does the most useful official Windows 11/10 repairs you want automatically

Sayan Sen — Tue, 10 Jun 2025 09:18:01 +0000

An unofficial script that fixes common Windows 11/10 problems with the most useful native repair tools that Windows offers has been released. Read more...

Microsoft has an important warning about unlicensed OneDrive accounts

Paul Hill — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 15:04:01 +0000

Microsoft has put out a warning to admins about unlicensed OneDrive accounts. The changes are set to come in on January 27. Read more...

Microsoft releases free Windows Server 2025 security advice book for download

Paul Hill — Thu, 07 Nov 2024 06:42:02 +0000

Microsoft has released a security advice book for admins to accompany Windows Server 2025. It highlights all the latest security enhancements in the new operating system. Read more...

WhatsApp gives group admins more control in latest update

Paul Hill — Tue, 21 Mar 2023 23:12:01 +0000

WhatsApp is soon getting two new group features that bolster the powers of group admins and help you to discover shared groups with your contacts by just searching for their names. Read more...

Facebook offers new tools for group admins to shield their members from ‘Fake News' and grow

Alap Naik Desai — Wed, 09 Mar 2022 21:36:02 +0000

Group Admins for Facebook pages have multiple new tools under the new "Admin Assist" platform. These tools can help moderators fight misinformation, suspend offenders, and even increase members. Read more...

Facebook to make jobs of group admins easier with a bunch of new tools

Sayan Sen — Wed, 16 Jun 2021 17:26:01 +0000

Facebook wants to make moderation easier for admins that run and manage groups on its platform. To do so, the social media giant is introducing several new tools under its new Admin Home panel. Read more...

Facebook gives admins more power over the groups they control on WhatsApp

Paul Hill — Sat, 30 Jun 2018 19:08:03 +0000

Facebook has announced a new update to WhatsApp that allows admins to toggle a switch in the group settings to enable one-directional messaging. This will be helpful for more formal groups. Read more...

Telegram messenger supergroups can now have up to 30,000 members

Paul Hill — Tue, 24 Oct 2017 09:14:02 +0000

Telegram has decided to bump the limit of supergroups to 30,000 members. The company said it was considering phasing out normal groups because they're not too different from supergroups now. Read more...

Microsoft Patches Blocked for Some Admins

Steven Parker — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 11:13:47 +0000

Microsoft on Monday said it is working on a patch to correct an issue that has rendered some administrators using System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) 2007 unable to download and install last week's security updates.... Read more...

Underage BitTorrent Admins Fined $60,000 Each

Fri, 27 Oct 2006 20:39:07 +0000

Four out of eight administrators of the Finnish BitTorrent tracker "Finreactor" have been declared guilty in court and have to pay damages totaling 60,000 dollars each. The lawsuit against Finreactor has just come to a... Read more...

United Admins to continue work on CDeath

Michael Stanclift — Fri, 03 Jan 2003 15:03:29 +0000

United Admins ("UA") has acquired the client and server popular anti-cheat solution known as Cheating-Death. CDeath himself, wishing to pass on the development of his program, approached UA, which gladly accepted. "This... Read more...

Microsoft blames laidback sys admins for IIS breaches

Marcel Klum — Fri, 12 Oct 2001 18:11:15 +0000

Thanks JimF for this bit of news. A Microsoft security expert claims system administrators do not do enough to shore up IIS web servers from security threats, with the result that the software... Read more...