Microsoft has started rolling out support for third-party accounts in its Outlook for Windows preview app, which is currently available for Office Insiders. The web-based version of Outlook now lets users add a Gmail account in addition to personal Microsoft accounts and work and school accounts, and the preview client also supports displaying calendars and…
Did someone say it’s already Spring? It sure feels like it with all of the Microsoft Power Platform changes and new AI-enhanced features that the company touted in March. Don’t worry though, we’ll whet your appetite and provide some links below. New Microsoft 365 Copilot If you missed the announcement of the Microsoft 365 Copilot…
Microsoft introduced yesterday its latest Surface Dock with Thunderbolt 4, which now uses a USB-C port to connect to Surface devices instead of Microsoft’s proprietary Surface Connect port. The Surface Thunderbolt 4 dock should be a good companion device for the latest Surface devices that also support Thunderbolt 4, and it’s also compatible with Windows…
Microsoft Stream, which is part of Microsoft 365, is a video creation and collaboration service available with nearly all license and pricing plans. Learn about its noteworthy features including the ability to record your screen and yourself, catch up on your company’s Teams meeting recordings, and distribute your videos across your Microsoft 365 tenant. What…
Cloud Conversations is a regular podcast that we’ll be featuring here on Petri. It’s about everything connected to cloud computing, including technologies like Azure, Microsoft 365, Power Platform, Microsoft Endpoint Manager (MEM), Microsoft Defender, Windows, Intune, and much more! Cloud Conversations: Iain Smith on Unified Communications & The Pace of AI Iain Smith is a 9-time Microsoft MVP and a…
Cybersecurity vendor Logpoint detailed this week a new update for Converged SIEM, the company’s new platform that combines SIEM (Security information and event management), SOAR (Security orchestration, automation and response), User Entity and Behavior Analytics (UEBA), and business-critical security in a single offering. Logpoint Converged SIEM became generally available back in March 2022 as a…
Last Update: Jun 06, 2025
Tables are one of the core components of every relational database system and SQL Server is no different. Tables store the data that the relational database engine uses for queries, reports, and other operations. In this article, I’ll show you how to modify data from a SQL Server table using T-SQL INSERT, T-SQL UPDATE, T-SQL…
This week, March 30th at 9.20am ET, Petri is hosting its first free virtual 1-day conference of the year on identity management and privileged access management (PAM). In our 2023 audience survey, IT Pros cited security as their number one concern. And because identity and privilege management form the basis of good security and a…
Last Update: Sep 03, 2025
Many of you have been using Azure Active Directory Connect to manage your hybrid identities and synchronization of users from Active Directory to Azure Active Directory (recently renamed Microsoft Entra ID). This modern technology is called Azure AD Connect cloud sync. In this article, I’ll walk you through the installation and basic configuration of Azure…
Last Update: Jun 08, 2025
Here’s how to list all groups on a Linux machine, how to list all users, and how to see the groups they belong to.