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Latest updates focus on expanded visibility, automation and Copilot integration for security operations teams.
02/11/2026
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New capability expands long-term retention and cost-optimization options for security telemetry in Microsoft Sentinel data lake.
02/11/2026
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Microsoft's February Patch Tuesday release addresses 58 vulnerabilities across Windows, Office and several other products, with six zero-day flaws highlighting the monthly release.
02/11/2026
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New research outlines how attackers bypass safeguards and why AI security must be treated as a system-wide problem.
02/09/2026
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Joey on SQL Server
A closer look at AI-driven capital spending, GPU depreciation and shrinking margins helps explain why massive hyperscaler investments -- and Microsoft’s AI disclosures -- rattled tech stocks and raised new questions about the economics of artificial intelligence.
02/09/2026
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Microsoft's Defender Security Research Team has observed threat actors actively exploiting internet-exposed SolarWinds Web Help Desk instances in multi-stage intrusions that led to lateral movement toward high-value assets within targeted organizations.
02/09/2026
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
Let's examine the challenges of running Windows-dependent PowerShell scripts from Linux and compares three practical approaches -- dual booting, WinBoat and Windows Server RemoteApp -- to maintaining compatibility in a multiplatform environment.
02/05/2026
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Snowflake and OpenAI have struck a multi-year, $200 million partnership to embed OpenAI’s models directly into Snowflake’s data platform, as vendors push to turn large language models into practical tools employees can use on enterprise data.
02/05/2026
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New launch allows agents to use an organization’s own files to support search, analysis and task completion directly in OneDrive.
02/04/2026
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New connector brings Copilot activity data into Microsoft Sentinel to improve visibility, detection and investigation.
02/04/2026
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
Microsoft is adding security warning messages in Teams for organizations using default configurations, a move the company says is part of its Secure By Default initiative and aimed at increasing user awareness of potentially risky files and links without changing existing enforcement policies.
02/04/2026
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Microsoft announced a leadership shake-up Wednesday that will see Hayete Gallot return to the company as executive vice president of security, replacing Charlie Bell, who is shifting into a new role focused on Microsoft’s Quality Excellence Initiative.
02/04/2026
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Microsoft issued an out-of-band security update on Jan. 26 to address CVE-2026-21509, a Microsoft Office vulnerability the company said was being actively exploited at the time of disclosure.
02/04/2026
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Updated guidance helps organizations migrate storage workloads away from legacy TLS versions ahead of stricter security enforcement.
02/03/2026
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
Immutable backups can serve as a long-term safety net beyond ransomware protection, preserving critical data that may fall outside traditional backup retention windows and go unnoticed until it is too late.
02/03/2026
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The 2026 Cloud Security Report from Fortinet finds cloud security teams are less concerned about whether cloud platforms can be secured and more focused on whether their defenses can keep pace with the speed of change.
02/02/2026
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General availability of new filters helps users narrow Copilot search results by content source across Microsoft 365.
01/29/2026
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New management options simplify deployment and improve performance consistency for Windows remote desktop environments.
01/29/2026
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
This step-by-step guide explains how to use Discrete Device Assignment to attach a physical GPU directly to a Hyper-V virtual machine, enabling hardware-accelerated workloads such as AI while bypassing deprecated RemoteFX technology.
01/29/2026
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Joey on SQL Server
A recent Exchange Online disruption tied to Microsoft network changes underscores how deeply businesses still rely on email -- and how few practical options organizations have to protect critical workflows when cloud services fail.
01/28/2026
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Microsoft on Monday unveiled Maia 200, a custom-built accelerator aimed at lowering the cost of running artificial intelligence workloads at cloud scale, as major providers look to curb soaring inference expenses and lessen dependence on Nvidia graphics processors.
01/28/2026