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VPNs are commonly used to give users working from home access to corporate resources. But traditional forced tunnel VPNs can have a significant impact on the performance of cloud services like Office 365. In this article, I look at the different ways VPNs can be configured for performance and security.

Around the globe, IT Pros are facing unprecedented challenges in their environments. From supporting hundreds, if not thousands, of newly-remote workers, handling a significant increase in VPN connections or trying to backup data that is outside the firewall – for many of us, we are in uncharted waters. At Petri, our mission is to create…

Microsoft recently announced at Build 2020 that it is working on a native open-source package manager for Windows. Due to hit general availability in May 2021, Windows Package Manager is now accessible on GitHub and for Windows Insiders in preview. In this article, I will show you how to use Windows Package Manager (WPM) to…

MSIX is a new installer technology for Windows that first appeared in Windows 10 version 1809 and it was later backported to Windows 10 versions 1709 and 1803. It replaces Windows Installer (MSI) and the APPX packaging format previously used for Store apps. MSIX works with all Win32, WPF, Windows Forms, and Universal Windows Platform…

Tracking Down Obsolete Accounts Last December, I wrote about how the problem of identifying obsolete guest accounts that exist in an Office 365 tenant. An increasing number of applications support Azure B2B Collaboration and create guest accounts to allow external people to access content. Teams is a great example, as are the sharing links used…

There are a lot of ways you can look at the Surface Go. Is it a consumer device, a firstline worker piece of hardware, both or neither? For this review, I’m focusing more on the firstline worker scenario. While there are certainly consumers who can and should buy this PC, the workplace and specifically, the…

This week, Microsoft has made available several Surface devices, like the brand new Surface Go 2. But arriving at my office today, is the other end of the spectrum, the Surface Book 3. The Book series from Microsoft is a high-end device that is designed for creative and other professionals who need workstation-class hardware in a…

The first article in this series discussed how to remove the ability of OWA users to create autoforwarding addresses. This does a lot to stop the forwarding of email outside an organization, but OWA is only one part of the problem. We also need to deal with the other ways that messages can be automatically…

Today’s the day, the Surface Go 2 is here, and in the not too distant future, so will the Surface Book 3. For now, I am going to focus on the Go 2 as that’s the device in my hands and it is also the lowest-priced Surface you can buy today. The Surface Go 2 starts…

Autoforwarding is Badness Allowing users to forward their email outside Exchange Online is bad, especially if they don’t keep a copy of the forwarded messages in their mailbox. Apart from removing email from the controls imposed by data governance policies, it creates a risk that confidential information travels outside the organization, including when an attacker…