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Microsoft has announced that its Entra Permissions Management solution is now generally available for enterprise customers. It’s a cloud-based infrastructure entitlement management (CIEM) service that provides insights into permissions for all user and workload identities in multi-cloud environments. Microsoft Entra Permissions Management (formerly known as Cloud Knox Security) launched in public preview back in February….

Microsoft has released version 4.5.0 of the Teams PowerShell module. This update doesn’t bring any big changes but it includes a set of bug fixes and enhancements for IT administrators. The Microsoft Teams PowerShell module was released in April 2019. It allows IT admins to manage users, Teams, policies, and configuration through PowerShell. For instance,…

Microsoft is set to backtrack on its decision to block Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) macros by default across all currently-supported Office apps. Indeed, the software giant has announced in the Microsoft 365 Admin Center that it is rolling back this change based on user feedback. Back in February, Microsoft unveiled its plans to turn…

Last week, Microsoft announced the release of the Windows Server vNext Insider build 25151. This new preview build of the Server OS comes with a couple of new features and changes, including support for the legacy Local Administrator Password Solution (LAPS) product and more. LAPS, which was previously available as a separate download, has now…

Microsoft’s Azure cloud is experiencing capacity issues due to ongoing supply chain constraints. According to a new report from The Information, over two dozen Azure datacenters worldwide are currently operating with limited server capacity. In March 2020, Microsoft started experiencing an increased demand for its cloud services due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Specifically, Microsoft Teams…

Microsoft has announced some important updates that should improve the new Outlook for Mac experience that launched in Fall 2020. First of all, the new Outlook for Mac is getting support for retention policies this month. Retention policies allow organizations to control how long messages will be saved within an Outlook folder. Microsoft says this…

Microsoft has warned customers about a new high-risk worm called “Raspberry Robin” that is infecting Windows PCs. The software giant has privately informed some Microsoft Defender for Endpoint users that the malware has been discovered in hundreds of enterprise networks across various industries (via Bleeping Computer). The Red Canary cybersecurity researchers first discovered Raspberry Robin…

Microsoft has announced Ephemeral OS disk support for Azure confidential virtual machines (VMs). The new feature enables organizations to use Azure hardware-based trusted execution environments (TEEs) in order to protect sensitive data while is being processed from unauthorized access. Azure confidential computing was first announced at Microsoft’s Ignite conference in 2017. These confidential VMs are…

Microsoft has started rolling out the Edge WebView2 Runtime to Windows 10 consumer devices. The Microsoft Edge WebView 2 control allows developers to embed web-based content into their applications. For those unfamiliar, Edge WebView2 is used by a wide range of applications, including Microsoft 365 apps. It helps developers to keep a consistent look and…

Back in May, the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) temporarily removed a Windows flaw from its Known Exploited Vulnerability (KEV) Catalog due to Active Directory (AD) certificate authentication issues. CISA has now re-added the security vulnerability to KEV, and it’s encouraging IT admins to patch it by deploying the June Patch Tuesday updates by…