Rabia Noureen

Microsoft has launched a new Update Management Center (UMS) in public preview. The new service is designed to make it easier for IT admins to manage updates for all Azure and Linux machines on Azure and Azure Arc-enabled servers. Essentially, Update Management Center is the latest iteration of Microsoft’s Azure Automation Update Management solution. For…

Microsoft has released the optional July 2022 non-security patch (KB5015879) for Windows Server 2022. This optional update reduces resource contention in scenarios that require high input/output operations per second (IOPS). The latest Windows Server 2022 optional patch addresses a bug that was previously causing Windows to freeze due to Windows Defender Application Control. This update…

Microsoft is launching today Microsoft Cloud for Sovereignty, a new cloud offering for the government sector. The new cloud solution is meant to help government and public sector customers build, move, and operate sensitive data and workloads in the cloud while supporting the highest security and compliance standards. A sovereign cloud is a cloud infrastructure…

Microsoft is celebrating the one-year anniversary of its Windows 365 Cloud PC service that launched back in July 2021. The company has highlighted some new enhancements in Windows 365 that should help to boost cloud transformation across multiple industries. Windows 365 is a cloud-based service that enables employees to access their Windows desktops from any…

Microsoft launched today the Digital Contact Center Platform, a new flexible and collaborative contact center solution. The new service brings together Microsoft Teams, Dynamics 365, Power Platform, and Nuance conversational AI, and it provides intelligent tools to modernize the customer care experience. “With the Microsoft Digital Contact Center Platform, contact centers are equipped with modern…

Microsoft has unveiled a bunch of Microsoft 365 updates at its annual Inspire partner conference, which just kicked off this morning. Microsoft Teams is also getting several capabilities to make hybrid meetings more engaging, productive & inclusive, and one of the major highlights is a new collaboration feature called Excel Live. As you may recall,…

The US Department of Homeland Security has issued a security advisory about the risks associated with Log4j vulnerabilities. The DHS’ Cyber Safety Review Board (CSRB) warned that the security flaw is expected to affect federal agencies and organizations until at least 2032. For those unfamiliar, Apache Log4j is a popular open-source Java-based logging framework. It…

Microsoft Teams has released some new features for public preview users. The software giant has announced that the Teams desktop app now lets meeting participants pop out shared content into a separate window. According to Microsoft, the ability to pop out shared meeting content (such as PowerPoint Live, Whiteboard, and screen sharing) should be a…

The internet infrastructure firm Cloudflare has released an advisory about a powerful botnet dubbed Mantis. The botnet was behind the largest-ever HTTPS-based distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) attack in June 2022 and has targeted around 1,000 customers in the past few weeks. Cloudflare explained that its security team mitigated the record-breaking DDoS attack last month that reached a…

Google has officially launched Chrome OS Flex, a free version of Chrome OS that can be installed on almost any PC and Mac. The company first began testing the new Chrome OS experience back in February, and it’s finally available for all schools, businesses, and consumers. Chrome OS Flex is a lightweight, user-friendly, and secure…

Microsoft has announced that it’s bringing support for Apple M1/M2 processors in its Microsoft Teams app for macOS. The company recently updated its Microsoft 365 roadmap to indicate that the new Teams version is expected to be generally available in September. Currently, the Microsoft Teams desktop app runs as an Intel application on Apple Silicon…

Microsoft has recently announced some important updates for Azure AD Connect Group Writeback. This release enables organizations to write back Microsoft 365 groups (assigned & dynamic) to their on-premises Active Directory as a security group, mail-enabled security group, or distribution list. For those unfamiliar, Group Writeback is a useful tool that enables IT Pros to…