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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
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Microsoft on Monday described the human-operated ransomware industry, offering detailed tips for IT pros, plus security product mentions.
05/10/2022
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Microsoft on Tuesday released its monthly batch of security fixes, consisting of 74 targeted holes, which may look like a relief for some after last month's massive 128 total.
05/10/2022
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Microsoft on Monday announced an expansion of its security services for organizations.
05/09/2022
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A Windows management expert explains how much automation is too much, and why one of the most useful features in Microsoft Intune is so hard to get hold of.
05/09/2022
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Microsoft announced last week that a preview of its Azure Active Directory Verifiable Credentials (VC) attestation solution can now tried by anyone with an Azure AD account.
05/09/2022
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Microsoft indicated in a Thursday announcement that it will require the use of Microsoft Accounts (MSAs) for "personal use" of the Windows 11 Pro edition operating system on initial setup.
05/06/2022