Rabia Noureen

Microsoft has announced the general availability of new Azure AD cross-tenant collaboration settings. The feature was first announced back in February, and it lets IT Pros control how end users can securely collaborate with external organizations. With this release, IT administrators can access the new settings in the External identities section of the Azure AD…

Last year, Microsoft released security updates to address Windows Server printing issues in some business printers and scanners that use a smart card for authentication purposes. Now, the company has rolled out new optional updates to disable the temporary fix on Windows Server 2019 machines. In an updated support document, Microsoft warned that installation of…

Back in February, Microsoft announced that it would begin blocking Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) macros by default in its Office apps. The company started rolling out this change to Office Insiders in April before pausing it to incorporate user feedback. In a recent update to the Microsoft 365 message center, Microsoft notified IT admins…

Microsoft has announced its plans to retire the built-in Windows Information Protection (WIP) feature in its client operating system. The software giant has decided to sunset the data leak prevention capability in favor of its paid subscription service, Microsoft Purview. Windows Information Protection (previously known as enterprise data protection (EDP) is a useful feature that…

Microsoft has unveiled a new security feature that is set to arrive in Windows 11 later this year. David Weston, Microsoft’s VP for Enterprise and OS Security, announced on Twitter that the Windows 11 Insider build 22528.1000 brings a new default setting to protect users against brute force attacks. For those unfamiliar, a brute force…

Atlassian has disclosed a new critical flaw in its Confluence Server and Data Center products. The company explained in its security advisory that the vulnerability (CVE-2022-26138) lets unauthorized users use hardcoded credentials to get full access to Confluence. According to Atlassian, the flaw exists in its Questions for Confluence app. It is designed to help…

Microsoft has teamed up with Oracle to launch a new service called “Oracle Database Service for Azure.” The latest offering provides Microsoft Azure customers access to databases running in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). Microsoft explained that enterprise customers can now provision and manage Oracle-hosted database services directly within the Azure cloud dashboard. The service lets…

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…