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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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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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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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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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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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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
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Introduced at Ignite late last year, Azure HorizonDB is a new PostgreSQL service designed for higher performance and scalability, using disaggregated storage, zone-redundant architecture and a Rust-based engine to target large, cloud-native workloads.
01/08/2026
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
Here are my five deliberately non-obvious predictions for 2026, from AI agents managing other agents to a possible slowdown in major tech announcements as organizations reassess where real value is emerging.
01/07/2026
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Change eliminates a long-standing cap on outbound email recipients, shifting enforcement toward abuse and behavior-based controls.
01/07/2026
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New capability uses behavioral signals and AI to surface stealthy threats that evade traditional rule-based detection.
01/07/2026
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Update release aims to streamline Slurm-based cluster management and improve usability for cloud high-performance computing teams.
01/07/2026
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Microsoft said Monday that its Azure datacenters are engineered to support NVIDIA's newly launched Rubin platform, as cloud providers move to deploy the next generation of AI infrastructure.
01/06/2026
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Microsoft announced Monday it has acquired Osmos, a Seattle-based startup that uses agentic AI to automate data engineering workflows.
01/06/2026
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Instead of clicking on apps, you will talk to agents to do tasks for you.
01/05/2026
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
Time to revisit my five major predictions for last year -- from AI adoption and Windows Recall to automation and Teams extensibility -- to see which calls landed, which missed and what the results say about 2025.
01/05/2026
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
A practical guide for IT pros on how to structure clearer, more effective prompts to get more accurate and useful results from Copilot and other AI chatbots.
12/12/2025
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As companies pour unprecedented money into AI, soaring compute costs, limited model differentiation and an unsustainable business model are raising questions about whether the industry's massive bets can ever deliver real returns.
12/10/2025
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Microsoft closed out 2025 with its final Patch Tuesday release. This month's update fixes 56 vulnerabilities across Windows, Office and several other products, and includes three zero-day flaw fixes.
12/10/2025
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The Linux Foundation on Tuesday announced the formation of the Agentic AI Foundation, bringing together Microsoft, OpenAI, Anthropic and other major tech companies to advance open-source development of autonomous AI systems.
12/09/2025
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Microsoft on Tuesday announced a $17.5 billion plan to expand its cloud and artificial intelligence infrastructure in India over the next four years, the company’s largest investment in Asia to date.
12/09/2025
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
AI-driven automation is poised to simplify traditional software management while shifting IT pros toward higher-level responsibilities in compliance, integration and data governance.
12/08/2025
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Microsoft announced last week that it will raise prices for its commercial Microsoft 365 suite subscriptions effective July 1, 2026, while expanding AI, security and management capabilities across its offerings.
12/08/2025
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Azure Local and IoT Operations received a broad set of updates this week as Microsoft moved to expand AI-enabled edge computing across hybrid and highly distributed environments.
12/05/2025
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Microsoft is bringing advanced endpoint management capabilities from its Intune Suite directly into Microsoft 365 E3 and E5 subscriptions.
12/04/2025
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
AI agents promise relief from the infinite workday, but delegating to digital teams may create new pressures that leave employees carrying an even heavier load.
12/04/2025
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Microsoft has retired its standalone Mesh platform as of Dec. 1 and moved its 3D meeting capabilities into Teams through a new immersive events feature, now generally available.
12/02/2025
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All the company needs to move forward is the one thing Microsoft can't provide or obtain.
12/02/2025
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
Microsoft now lets global and AI admins submit detailed diagnostic logs and user-specific context to help improve Copilot performance when issues arise.
12/01/2025
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Microsoft is tightening security around its Entra ID sign-in process by blocking external script injection, a move that could force some orgs to rethink their browser extension strategies.
12/01/2025
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Microsoft chief executive Satya Nadella has tapped longtime strategy leader Rolf Harms to help guide the company through a broad rethink of its business model as artificial intelligence becomes central to its product and infrastructure plans.
11/26/2025
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Amid the AI-heavy headlines at Microsoft's annual conference, several behind-the-scenes updates landed that could have a major impact on how IT teams build, run and scale core infrastructure in Azure.
11/21/2025
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General Availability announced of MSP introducing a closed security model aligned towards zero-trust security principles.
11/20/2025
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Update gives developers a production-ready way to run orchestrations and background workflows at scale without managing servers.
11/20/2025
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New tier features include inbound private links, availability zone support and custom CA certificates.
11/20/2025
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
Let's take a look at how Microsoft 365 Copilot Search bookmarks let admins pin trusted resources to the top of results using titles, descriptions, keywords, reserved keywords and optional targeting controls.
11/20/2025
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Microsoft, Nvidia and Anthropic have entered into a far-reaching partnership that blends new investments with a large multiyear cloud commitment, tightening ties among three major players in artificial intelligence.
11/18/2025