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Posey's Tips & Tricks
Drawing on lessons learned from Dragon NaturallySpeaking, this second installment examines where voice-based navigation and dictation in Microsoft Copilot may streamline workflows -- and where traditional input methods are likely to remain more practical.
01/23/2026
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News
Ransomware attacks continued to climb in 2025 as attackers increasingly timed operations around year-end staffing gaps and shifted away from traditional file encryption.
01/23/2026
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New native integration connects Kafka streams directly to Cosmos DB on Confluent Cloud, reducing complexity for event-driven and cloud-native applications.
01/21/2026
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New record-and-playback platform aims to reduce complexity and improve reliability in Windows driver development.
01/21/2026
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Change signals a shift away from legacy monitoring packs toward modern observability and Azure-based monitoring tools.
01/21/2026
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
Microsoft’s push to add real-time speech, dictation and conversational responses to Copilot revives long-standing questions about voice-driven productivity, drawing on lessons from legacy tools to assess where verbal interaction is likely to help -- and where it may fall short.
01/21/2026
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News
Microsoft released an out-of-band update Friday to resolve credential authentication failures affecting Azure Virtual Desktop and Windows 365 connections that emerged after the company's January 2026 security update.
01/21/2026
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
In Part 2 of this series, we'll learn how to use PowerShell to call the Stable Diffusion API directly, moving from a simple proof-of-concept script to a GUI-based tool for generating AI images on local hardware.
01/20/2026
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News
Microsoft released a pair of security and compliance updates this week designed to help IT administrators strengthen protections across Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise and simplify app governance in Teams.
01/20/2026
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
Build a cloud-free AI image generation workflow by wiring Stable Diffusion into Windows PowerShell, using open source tools and local hardware to create images directly from scripts.
01/16/2026
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General availability on newer Linux distributions and CU1 signal a push toward stability, security and production readiness.
01/16/2026
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New capability strengthens security by tying SAS access to Azure AD identities instead of account keys.
01/16/2026
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News
Microsoft said it has disrupted RedVDS, a global cybercrime subscription service used by financially motivated attackers to carry out business email compromise, mass phishing and account takeover campaigns.
01/15/2026
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Update improves performance visibility by including read-only workloads in Query Store analysis.
01/14/2026
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
A real-world recovery scenario shows how immutable backups can provide long-term protection against silent data loss that falls outside the reach of typical retention policies.
01/14/2026
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News
Microsoft rang in 2026 with its biggest January Patch Tuesday rollout in four years, shipping fixes for 113 vulnerabilities across Windows, Office and other products
01/13/2026
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General availability of the new feature improves security posture by reducing exposure from predictable service URLs.
01/13/2026
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
A yearlong PowerShell experiment to bring AI in-house evolved from a simple proof of concept into a production-ready, stateful chatbot that now largely replaces the author's reliance on cloud-based AI services.
01/12/2026
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
Hyper-V administrators can quickly resolve four common errors by identifying their root causes--from permissions and VM corruption to network switch conflicts and storage access issues--and applying straightforward corrective steps.
01/09/2026
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Report says sales projections are being lowered due to a lack in interest.
01/09/2026
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News
Microsoft has begun out new AI-powered incident prioritization capabilities in Microsoft Defender alongside an expanded suite of proactive incident response services, giving security teams more tools to prevent, detect and recover from cybersecurity threats.
01/09/2026