Microsoft this week offered yet another explanation about how its June security patch can break Group Policy Object (GPO) settings for organizations and how to address the changes.
Better backups, checkpoints and security are highlights of the latest version.
- By Paul Schnackenburg
- 06/27/2016
Microsoft this month released System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) Technical Preview 1606.
Blockchain is poised to play dual roles that are much more significant than its cryptocurrency beginnings: disrupting conventional commerce, funds exchanges and payments, and establishing sovereign identity credentials at birth -- saving lives and undermining ID theft.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 06/23/2016
Microsoft's Directory Services team has now published a more thorough explanation about how a June security patch, MS16-072, will change Group Policy functionality for organizations.
Microsoft unveiled a new information protection service that will get commercially released sometime later this year.
One of Microsoft's 17 patch Tuesday security releases issued this month has caused problems with Group Policy Object settings for some organizations that applied it.
Microsoft today warned of a somewhat new tactic being used to spread malware via Office files.
While the collaboration tool's main focus isn't on securing documents, some of its features will help in file security.
Microsoft's Identity Protection preview for its Azure Active Directory service got some new capabilities this week.
Microsoft is starting to roll out its Advanced Security Management service today for its Office 365 E5 subscribers.
Microsoft will add a new malware scanning option for consumers with the Windows 10 "anniversary update" release that's coming this summer.
Microsoft has postponed its roll out of new security certificates for Azure Active Directory, which was supposed to have occurred today.
Enterprise NoSQL database provider MarkLogic Corporation unveiled a preview of the latest version of its namesake database platform at its 11th annual user conference last week.
- By John K. Waters
- 05/18/2016
Microsoft announced today that it has expanded its Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection service preview to "IT professionals and enterprise customers."
Microsoft this week talked more about its Shielded Virtual Machines datacenter security technology.
The company will partner with eight universities to strengthen the AI's security base of knowledge.
Microsoft's Internet browsers will stop trusting Web sites using SHA-1 certificates for security, starting this summer.
Microsoft's new Passport for Work helps enroll Windows 10 devices using the new Windows Hello biometric authentication to Active Directory.
Administrators and users should uninstall QuickTime from all Windows-based systems following the discovery of two vulnerabilities in the software that Apple has stopped supporting.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 04/18/2016