Rabia Noureen

At its Build 2022 developer conference today, Microsoft announced new tools for developers to create collaboration solutions for Teams and Microsoft 365. The Redmond giant has also unveiled a new Live Share feature for Microsoft Teams apps.  Based on Fluid Framework, the new Live Share experience enables meeting attendees to create, edit, annotate, interact, zoom…

Microsoft has announced some improvements coming to the preset security policies in Defender for Office 365 solution this summer. These policy changes should help IT admins use Microsoft’s recommended settings. According to Microsoft, the preset security policies enable organizations to apply all recommended settings to Office 365 users. The list includes Strict protection, Standard protection,…

Microsoft has published an advisory about a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) malware called XorDdos that is targeting Linux endpoints and servers. The company has warned that its security researchers have detected a 254 percent surge in the malware’s activity during the last six months. The security research group MalwareMustDie first discovered the XorDDoS malware back in…

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has warned US government agencies to immediately patch critical vulnerabilities in VMware products. The security authority instructed all federal agencies to remove the actively exploited VMware offerings from their networks if patches can’t be applied by May 23, 2022. VMware recently disclosed multiple security flaws in five different…

Microsoft released new out-of-band (OOB) updates yesterday to address Active Directory (AD) authentication problems caused by the May 2022 Patch Tuesday updates. These emergency patches also include a fix for the bug that previously prevented the installation of apps from the Microsoft Store. The May 2022 security updates that shipped earlier this month included fixes…

Microsoft has announced new initiatives to decrease the licensing costs and restrictions for small cloud vendors. The Redmond giant plans to make some changes to its restrictive cloud-licensing policies in response to complaints from rival European cloud vendors. Back in 2019, Microsoft changed the terms of its outsourcing license agreement that increased the cost of…

Microsoft has quietly updated the Windows Health Dashboard page to mention that Windows 11 is now ready for broad deployment in business environments. This essentially means that all Windows 10 users with PCs that meet the minimum requirements for Windows 11 should be able to install it via Windows Update (via Neowin). According to Microsoft,…

Microsoft has announced a new partnership with Citrix, a Florida-based virtualization and cloud computing company. The Redmond giant has teamed up with Citrix to bring new high-definition user experience (HDX) technology integrations into its Windows 365 Cloud PC service. For those unfamiliar, Citrix HDX technology is a set of capabilities that help improve the remote…

Following a series of leaks, Microsoft has finally started rolling out its new One Outlook app (Project Monarch) to Office Insiders in the Beta channel. The revamped app can be turned on and off by clicking the toggle button at the top right corner of the existing Outlook for Windows client, though it only supports…

Microsoft continues to bring its popular apps to the Windows 10 and Windows 11 Microsoft Store. The Redmond giant has announced that Microsoft Teams is finally available on the Microsoft Store, and this should make it more convenient for Windows users to download and install the collaboration tool (via Thurrott.com). The Microsoft Store listing indicates…

The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has temporarily removed the security flaw CVE-2022-26925 from its Known Exploited Vulnerability Catalog. It has warned that IT admins should not install the May 2021 Patch Tuesday updates on Windows Servers used as domain controllers due to the risk of authentication failures. The security advisory comes amid…

Last month, Microsoft announced its plans to move the Quick Assist app to the Microsoft Store. The Redmond giant is dropping support for the existing built-in Quick Assist app for Windows 10 and Windows 11 on May 23, 2022. For those unfamiliar, Quick Assist is a remote assistance tool available for Windows PCs. The app…