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Microsoft this week announced a couple of perks at the preview stage for IT pros overseeing Microsoft 365 apps in organizations.
08/10/2022
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After a lighter-than-usual past few months, Microsoft is back in the triple digits for its monthly security update, with 121 common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVE) fixes.
08/10/2022
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Microsoft Entra Verified ID, a new service that promises a more deliberate way for individuals and organizations to share identity information, is now released at the "general availability" stage, Microsoft announced on Monday.
08/09/2022
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Microsoft recently rolled out a new security policy for Windows 11 that aims to curb the growing ransomware threat by blocking some brute-force attacks.
08/09/2022
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Microsoft appears to be deliberately trying to confuse the public on Office 2016 and Office 2019 connections to Microsoft 365 services.
08/08/2022
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From cloud security to multicloud management, this IT industry expert provides great insights into where the cloud is and where it's headed.
08/08/2022
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Microsoft on Wednesday declared that some Universal Print capabilities that have been available to Windows 11 users are now also available for certain Windows 10 users.
08/08/2022
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Microsoft this week described an Azure Threat Research Matrix for documenting tactics, techniques or procedures (TTPs) used against Azure services, including the Azure Active Directory service.
08/05/2022
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However, just don't expect the Microsoft Ignite of past years.
08/05/2022
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Microsoft this week began further explaining its Windows Update for Business Deployment Service, with a focus on Safeguard Holds.
08/05/2022
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Microsoft announced on Wednesday that it has optimized a version of Microsoft Teams for Apple Mac devices that are using Apple silicon.
08/04/2022
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Microsoft on Wednesday announced the "general availability" commercial release of the Microsoft Defender Experts for Hunting service.
08/03/2022
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Microsoft on Monday announced the release of a new Outlook Lite application for so-called "lightweight" Android mobile phones.
08/03/2022
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Microsoft on Tuesday announced three new enterprise-grade security products, which are now commercially released.
08/02/2022
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Microsoft on Monday announced the "general availability" commercial released of Viva Goals, plus a preview release of Viva Sales.
08/02/2022
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Microsoft on Thursday outlined its Microsoft Store on Windows plans, and how its app distribution scheme will work with the various management tools used by organizations.
07/29/2022
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Threat actors are adjusting their tactics and moving away from macro-based attacks after Microsoft's policy of blocking VBA macros in Office, according to a report released this week.
07/29/2022
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Microsoft on Thursday announced the release of its "first preview build" of Windows 10 version 22H2, namely build 19045.1865.
07/28/2022
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Microsoft's New Commerce Experience (NCE) subscription model offers less flexibility for commercial customers by steering them toward annual commitments, but it's maybe even worse for Microsoft's Cloud Solutions Provider (CSP) partners.
07/28/2022
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Microsoft Viva Engage will start appearing for Microsoft Teams subscribers from "the end of August to the end of September," Microsoft announced on Wednesday.
07/28/2022
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Microsoft on Wednesday announced improvements to its Azure Active Directory Certificate-Based Authentication (CBA) preview, which promises to provide an alternative to federated-based authentication methods.
07/27/2022
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The metaverse won't take over your entire PC usage. But it can be used to greatly enhance your experience, when used in the correct context.
07/27/2022
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Microsoft announced last week that a private preview of its Unified Update Platform (UUP) for on-premises environments is available for testing by commercial organizations.
07/26/2022
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Microsoft on Monday reminded organizations using the Office 2016 and Office 2019 productivity suites that those products will lose connections to Microsoft 365 apps and services, starting in Oct. 2023.
07/25/2022
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Microsoft on Thursday announced the gradual end of its Windows Information Protection (WIP) service, which is designed to keep users of Microsoft 365 apps from inadvertently disclosing organizational information.
07/22/2022
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Microsoft this week indicated that fixes for Microsoft Access problems, which were caused by a botched July 12 "patch Tuesday" security patch release, will be arriving soon.
07/22/2022
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Microsoft this week said they are once again reverting back to blocking Visual Basic Application (VBA) macros in Office.
07/22/2022
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Microsoft on Thursday announced the "general availability" commercial release of its cross-tenant access settings for external collaborations feature, which is part of its Azure Active Directory External Identities service offering.
07/22/2022
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Microsoft Teams and other Microsoft 365 apps went down for some users on Wednesday night, lasting maybe six hours.
07/21/2022
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Microsoft announced on Tuesday that its HyperClear technology used with its Hyper-V hypervisor offers protections against new speculative execution side-channel attack methods that were disclosed last week by AMD and Intel.
07/21/2022
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Microsoft and database maker Oracle announced on Wednesday that their joint Oracle Database Service for Microsoft Azure is now generally available.
07/20/2022
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Say goodbye to annoying echoes during your next Teams meeting.
07/20/2022
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The nonprofit World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) on Tuesday announced that its collaborative work on Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) is now a W3C Recommendation, which is at version 1.0.
07/20/2022
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Microsoft on Tuesday touted various collaboration product improvements as part of its Microsoft Inspire event for partners that's ongoing this week.
07/19/2022
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During the opening day of its Inspire 2022 virtual partner conference on Tuesday, Microsoft revealed its latest intelligent contact center platform
07/19/2022
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07/15/2022
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Microsoft is planning to release major new Windows client operating system versions every three years, instead of once per year, according to a report.
07/14/2022
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Microsoft disclosed details this week of a large-scale phishing campaign that has targeted more than 10,000 organizations since September 2021.
07/14/2022
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Microsoft on Wednesday announced features in Windows 11, build 25158, for its Windows Insider Program testers that includes a new Domain Name System (DNS) over Transport Layer Security (TLS) encryption option.
07/14/2022
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The evolution of the Web opens up new frontiers in application development, IT security, governance and even legislation. What could go wrong?
07/13/2022
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Microsoft Defender for Business now has the ability to protect servers, which is at the preview stage, according to a Wednesday Microsoft announcement.
07/13/2022
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Microsoft this week warned that organizations using Microsoft 365 Apps on some of its older Windows operating systems need to upgrade those OSes to a newer version soon or risk losing patch support.
07/13/2022
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SQL Server 2012 is no longer a supported product, Microsoft announced on Tuesday.
07/12/2022
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Microsoft's monthly security patches for July are here and, despite the 86 flaws fixed, it might go smoother for some thanks to Windows Autopatch.
07/12/2022
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The Microsoft Permissions Management service, used for ensuring proper access permissions across cloud services, is now commercially available, according to a Thursday Microsoft announcement.
07/12/2022
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Microsoft on Monday announced that its new Windows Autopatch service is now commercially available.
07/11/2022
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A blockchain specialist talks DAOs, how current laws are shaping the future of NFTs, Web3 standardization (or the lack thereof), and exactly how much FUD there is in the Web3 conversation.
07/11/2022
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Microsoft has quietly reversed an earlier decision to block Internet macros by default in Office.
07/08/2022
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Let's take a look at some of the features that makes Microsoft's video editing offering special.
07/08/2022
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The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) in the United Kingdom announced on Wednesday that it is investigating Microsoft's pending acquisition of Activision Blizzard Inc.
07/06/2022