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How to Secure Sensitive Data in Microsoft 365

Last Update: Oct 15, 2024

We’ve come a long way since those days and have seen technology evolve to support data stored in business cloud platforms such as Microsoft 365. In recent years, the digital revolution has made data more portable and more accessible, but crucially it has also made that data more vulnerable in many ways. Fortunately, if your organization…

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Windows

How To Find Windows 10 Stop Codes and Fix Errors Quickly

Last Update: Jun 18, 2025

Windows 10 doesn’t reliably give you easy access to stop codes when it crashes. Plus, these codes may flash on your screen for just half a second! In this guide, we’ll show you how to find Windows stop code fix methods, understand the reasons behind Windows crashes and guide you to solidify your Windows reliability…

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Amazon AWS

Everything You Should Know About AWS EC2 Instances Types

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) is a service that provides scalable cloud capacity in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud. With Amazon EC2, organizations can choose between a wide variety of instances that are optimized for different cloud computing use cases. In this tutorial, we’ll explain everything you need to know about the different…

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Cloud Computing and Security

What is Microsoft Sentinel and How Does It Protect Cloud and On-Premises Resources? 

Last Update: Sep 13, 2023

Microsoft Sentinel, which was previously known as Azure Sentinel, is a Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) solution for Azure and Microsoft 365. Just like other SIEM solutions, it combines Security Information Management (SIM) and Security Event Management (SEM). In this article, we’re going to explain how Microsoft Sentinel works and how this solution can…

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Cloud Computing

What Are the UPN and sAMAccountName User Account Attributes?

Last Update: Feb 01, 2023

The UPN and sAMAccountName are user account attributes in Active Directory. In this article, I’ll explain how these two user account attributes work and how the username and user logon name can be used in your organization. What are user naming attributes in Active Directory? In the world of Active Directory, there are two core…

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Cloud Conversations

Cloud Conversations: Tom Arbuthnot on Empowering.Cloud, Unified Communications, and Microsoft Teams

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: Tom Arbuthnot on Empowering Cloud, Unified Communications, and Microsoft Teams Tom Arbuthnot is a Microsoft MVP, a Microsoft Certified…

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Security

Five Essential Disaster Recovery Test Scenarios

Last Update: May 24, 2023

Almost every business knows that having a disaster recovery (DR) plan is essential. However, it’s equally important to test your disaster recovery plans, and not every business follows through on that point. In this article, I’m going to detail five essential disaster recovery test scenarios that your organization should consider to guarantee that its disaster…

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How to Run a Successful Microsoft Teams Meeting, Live Event, or Webinar

The world of hybrid meetings, hybrid working, meetings, webinars, and live events is firmly upon us. As of today, organizations have three options for creating a new video conference within Microsoft Teams: meetings, webinars, and live events. In this article, I will give you an overview of the different features of each option and provide…

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Install Windows 11/Server 2022 in VMware Workstation 17 Pro

In this article, I’ll show you how to successfully install Windows 11 or Windows Server 2022 in VMware Workstation 17 Pro. It’s taken more than a year for VMware to release a new version of VMware Workstation Pro that officially supports Windows 11. But there are still some issues that haven’t been resolved since the…

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Network Security

How to Export Active Directory Users to CSV With PowerShell and ADUC

Last Update: Jun 07, 2025

In this article, I’ll show you how to export Active Directory users to a CSV file using PowerShell and Active Directory Users and Computers (ADUC). Using PowerShell is recommended as IT Pros can use it to extract task-specific information about a subset or all of their users from Active Directory. This can be really helpful…

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