The Microsoft Endpoint Manager Admin Center portal now offers previews of reports designed to assess Windows client device feature update readiness, plus the risks associated with specific operating system upgrades, per this Wednesday announcement.
Microsoft Defender for Endpoint users now have a new "Contain" feature for compromised devices, Microsoft announced on Thursday.
A few Microsoft security governance and compliance improvements were announced this week.
HoloLens co-creator and Microsoft Technical Fellow Alex Kipman is stepping down from his position after allegations of his misconduct surfaced earlier in the week.
Microsoft this week previewed a way to create dynamic groups in Azure Active Directory that avoids some of the limitations with its existing "nested groups" approach.
Microsoft on Tuesday announced that a preview of Windows 11 version 22H2, build 22621, is now available for organizations to validate, prior to its commercial release.
Microsoft on Monday announced the "expansion" of a Windows Customer Connection Program for IT pros.
Microsoft this week noted that its SQL Server 2022 public preview, made available late last month, can now be tried on some Linux distros.
Microsoft declared itself union friendly in a Thursday announcement.
Microsoft on Thursday cleared up the mystery surrounding its next Exchange Server release plans, as described in an "Exchange Server Roadmap Update" announcement.
Microsoft on Wednesday announced that the latest iteration of its Surface Laptop Go is available for preorder.
Microsoft declared this week that Windows Subsystem for Linux version 2 (WSL2) is now available for installation on Windows Server 2022.
Microsoft this week announced that its new Windows Autopatch service is now available as a preview release for organizations.
Microsoft Entra is the newly announced product family name for Microsoft's existing identity and access management services, which also includes a newly renamed offering, plus a coming decentralized identity product offering.
Microsoft on Monday alerted users of an actively exploited vulnerability in Microsoft Office and has released a workaround.
Microsoft this week announced some External Identities enhancements for Azure Active Directory users.
Last year saw a significant decrease in "critical" security flaws in Microsoft software and a drop in overall vulnerabilities, according to a report released Friday by security firm BeyondTust.
Microsoft on Wednesday advised organizations using Active Directory to take a couple steps to protect against Kerberos resource-based constrained delegation relay attacks.
Chipmaker Broadcom announced Thursday its plans to acquire virtualization pioneer and multicloud leader VMware for $61 billion in a landmark tech deal surpassed in value only by Dell's $67 billion acquisition of EMC in 2016 and Microsoft's $68.7 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard earlier this year.
Microsoft announced a couple of Azure Active Directory security enhancements this week.