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The venerable Internet Explorer 11 browser will fall out of support on June 15, 2022, but just for certain Windows 10 operating system versions that follow the semiannual channel release update cycle.
06/13/2022
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Three capabilities in the Microsoft Entra Workload Identities service are "ready now for production use," according to a Thursday Microsoft announcement.
06/10/2022
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
Custom pop-up messages sound like a road to employee annoyance.
06/10/2022
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Security experts attending this year's RSA Conference in San Francisco said their top concern for their enterprises is cloud security.
06/10/2022
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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.
06/09/2022
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Microsoft Defender for Endpoint users now have a new "Contain" feature for compromised devices, Microsoft announced on Thursday.
06/09/2022
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A few Microsoft security governance and compliance improvements were announced this week.
06/08/2022
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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.
06/08/2022
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
We're probably going to be here for a while. Time to make things more comfortable to improve productivity.
06/08/2022
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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.
06/08/2022
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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.
06/07/2022
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Microsoft on Monday announced the "expansion" of a Windows Customer Connection Program for IT pros.
06/06/2022
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Microsoft this week noted that its SQL Server 2022 public preview, made available late last month, can now be tried on some Linux distros.
06/03/2022
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Microsoft declared itself union friendly in a Thursday announcement.
06/03/2022
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It's time. Make your life a lot easier by automating those time-intensive tasks.
06/03/2022
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Microsoft on Thursday cleared up the mystery surrounding its next Exchange Server release plans, as described in an "Exchange Server Roadmap Update" announcement.
06/03/2022
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Microsoft on Wednesday announced that the latest iteration of its Surface Laptop Go is available for preorder.
06/02/2022
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A Windows security expert explains why PAW should be the default setup for all organizations -- and why IT pros neglect it at their peril.
06/02/2022
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Microsoft declared this week that Windows Subsystem for Linux version 2 (WSL2) is now available for installation on Windows Server 2022.
06/02/2022
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Microsoft this week announced that its new Windows Autopatch service is now available as a preview release for organizations.
06/01/2022
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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.
05/31/2022
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Microsoft on Monday alerted users of an actively exploited vulnerability in Microsoft Office and has released a workaround.
05/31/2022
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Microsoft this week announced some External Identities enhancements for Azure Active Directory users.
05/27/2022
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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.
05/27/2022
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Microsoft on Wednesday advised organizations using Active Directory to take a couple steps to protect against Kerberos resource-based constrained delegation relay attacks.
05/26/2022
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Your Active Directory isn't secure. Learn what to do to protect your users and be ready for the next attack.
05/26/2022
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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.
05/26/2022
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Microsoft announced a couple of Azure Active Directory security enhancements this week.
05/26/2022
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Meta, formerly known as "Facebook," is using the latest Azure virtual machines (VMs) with graphics processing unit (GPU) compute power for its "large-scale AI research workloads," Microsoft announced on Wednesday.
05/25/2022
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The Microsoft 365 Defender Research Team is warning that Web skimming attacks are becoming more sophisticated and are able to hide malicious scripts from traditional security defenses.
05/25/2022
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The Microsoft Build keynote talk by CEO Satya Nadella on Tuesday stressed Microsoft's role as a builder of platforms that other organizations can use to build their own platforms.
05/24/2022
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Microsoft's annual Build conference for developers kicked off on Tuesday as a virtual event with the usual deluge of product announcements.
05/24/2022
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Build 2022 marks the long-awaited public preview of Microsoft's next-generation database engine. Here are the top seven new SQL Server 2022 features to look out for.
05/24/2022
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Users of the Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) service now have access to some basic Microsoft Teams functionality.
05/20/2022
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Microsoft on Thursday declared that authentication problems associated with its May monthly updates have been resolved via newly released updates.
05/20/2022
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Microsoft on Wednesday outlined concessions to European regulators and to European service providers that will be coming via the Microsoft Cloud Solution Provider partner program.
05/20/2022
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Microsoft and Citrix announced plans to make Citrix's "high-definition user experience" (HDX) technologies available as an option for Windows 365 desktop-as-a-service users.
05/19/2022
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Use of the Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) service is poised for growth, according to a recently published industry study that surveyed IT pros.
05/18/2022
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Paying the demands of ransomware attackers for hijacked organizational data does not come with a guarantee that organizations will recover that data.
05/18/2022
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During the VeeamOn conference this week, backup and recovery company Veeam revealed a handful of new features to its solution portfolio.
05/18/2022
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
Fixing out of sync VM clocks may be a bit annoying, but it's 100 percent doable. Here's how.
05/18/2022
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Microsoft on Tuesday announced a public preview of "troubleshooting mode" for Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, which is used to protect devices.
05/18/2022
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Organizations using Microsoft Defender for Office 365 will be getting enhancements to preset security policy options, starting this summer, according to a Tuesday Microsoft announcement.
05/17/2022
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As the IT landscape continues to transform with the newest cloud tech and services, why are you still relying on unsecure passwords?
05/17/2022
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Microsoft on Monday announced a rollout of a new default prepinned apps policy for users of Microsoft Teams with "frontline worker" types of licensing.
05/17/2022
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Microsoft on Monday announced the availability of a "private preview" of Microsoft Viva Goals, an objectives and key results (OKR) solution.
05/16/2022
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Microsoft this week acknowledged possible authentication problems caused by its May security updates, which were released on Tuesday.
05/13/2022
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
As with most things in the enterprise tech space, the answer is a bit nuanced.
05/13/2022
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Public previews of two Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management service products were announced on Thursday by Microsoft.
05/13/2022
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Organizations using Microsoft's Azure Active Directory Conditional Access service can set policies to require reauthentications by end users via a newly announced preview capability.
05/11/2022