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Microsoft on Tuesday announced improvements to the preview of the Microsoft Entra Verified ID service.
06/22/2022
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The Metaverse Standards Forum, made up of 30 tech organizations, has formed to foster cooperation in creating requirements and resources for the future of the metaverse industry.
06/22/2022
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Microsoft on Tuesday announced version 2 of its "Responsible AI Standard" document, and disclosed a use-case approval process for its Azure Face API, Computer Vision, and Video Indexer customers.
06/22/2022
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Microsoft has brought its Secured-core security design to Internet of Things (IoT) and edge devices, according to a Monday announcement.
06/21/2022
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Microsoft and Apple are working together to eliminate Basic Authentication use with the Mail app for organizations using the Microsoft Exchange Online e-mail service, according to a Thursday Microsoft announcement.
06/17/2022
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Microsoft looks to the automotive industry for the next chapter of its augmented reality tech.
06/17/2022
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Microsoft on Thursday announced Viva Sales, a coming new product for salespersons that pulls information together from various Microsoft 365 applications.
06/17/2022
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Microsoft has released a new security application for consumer subscribers to the Microsoft 365 Personal or Microsoft 365 Family product suites, as described in a Thursday announcement.
06/16/2022
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Microsoft on Wednesday announced enhancements to its Azure Arc multicloud management solution as used with its Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) and Azure Machine Learning (ML) services.
06/16/2022
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Cloud security in a growing work-from-home landscape should not be IT's only focus.
06/15/2022
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Orca Security on Tuesday published its findings on a security hole in Azure Synapse, as well as Azure Data Factory, that permitted access to customer tenancy accounts on Microsoft's shared "cloud" infrastructure.
06/15/2022
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Microsoft on Tuesday released 55 patches for its monthly security update release.
06/14/2022
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Microsoft on Tuesday announced the acquisition of Miburo, a research firm that specializes in detecting and responding to foreign cyberattacks.
06/14/2022
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The venerable Internet Explorer 11 browser will fall out of support on June 15, 2022, but just for certain Windows 10 operating system versions that follow the semiannual channel release update cycle.
06/13/2022
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Three capabilities in the Microsoft Entra Workload Identities service are "ready now for production use," according to a Thursday Microsoft announcement.
06/10/2022
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Custom pop-up messages sound like a road to employee annoyance.
06/10/2022
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Security experts attending this year's RSA Conference in San Francisco said their top concern for their enterprises is cloud security.
06/10/2022
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The Microsoft Endpoint Manager Admin Center portal now offers previews of reports designed to assess Windows client device feature update readiness, plus the risks associated with specific operating system upgrades, per this Wednesday announcement.
06/09/2022
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Microsoft Defender for Endpoint users now have a new "Contain" feature for compromised devices, Microsoft announced on Thursday.
06/09/2022
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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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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