Rabia Noureen

Last week, Microsoft announced the first preview release of .NET 7, alongside ASP.NET Core 7 Preview 1 and Entity Framework 7 Preview 1. The Redmond giant highlighted that this version of its .NET software development platform brings improved support for cloud-native applications and containers. “Today, we are excited to announce the next milestone in the…

Microsoft is launching today its new CloudKnox Permissions Management solution in public preview. The cloud infrastructure entitlements management (CIEM) platform provides Azure Active Directory (AAD) customers with a unified solution through which they have visibility over users, identities, and permissions, as well as workloads across hybrid and multi-cloud environments. The CloudKnox Permissions Management dashboard Microsoft…

Microsoft has announced this morning some improvements for its Defender for Cloud suite. The company says that the Microsoft Defender for Cloud service will now provide native support for Google Cloud Platform (GCP) environments, and this capability is currently available in public preview for all enterprise customers. Microsoft Defender for Cloud (formerly known as Azure…

Microsoft is planning to launch a new AI infrastructure service called “Singularity.” In a research paper published yesterday titled “Singularity: Planet-Scale, Preemptive and Elastic Scheduling of AI Workloads,” the company explained that this new AI platform service should help to minimize the cost of artificial intelligence (via ZDNet). With Microsoft’s Singularity distributed infrastructure service, data…

Microsoft Teams has released a new update that allows users to find the local time of their co-workers by checking their user profile cards. Laurie Pottmeyer, Teams Community Lead at Microsoft, announced on Twitter last week that this feature has started rolling out to the desktop and web apps. To view the profile card in…

Microsoft is launching a new integration between its Viva service and Glint, a popular employee engagement platform acquired by LinkedIn back in 2018. The company says that Glint is set to arrive in Microsoft Viva in 2023, and it will help organizations improve employee engagement by providing actionable insights. For those unfamiliar, Glint provides tools…

GitHub is getting new AI-powered code scanning analysis capabilities that should enable developers to identify the most common security flaws in their code. The company has launched this new experimental security feature in public beta for all GitHub users, and it supports JavaScript and TypeScript repositories. With this new code scanning analysis tool, developers can…

Last year, Microsoft unveiled Azure Spring Cloud Enterprise, a fully managed service designed for enterprise developers. Now, the Redmond giant has announced that Azure Spring Cloud Enterprise is available in public preview for all customers. For those unfamiliar, Azure Spring Cloud is a cloud-based service that provides tools and frameworks to help developers deploy Spring…

Microsoft has announced that hot patching support is now generally available for Windows Server 2022 Azure Edition. The new hotpatch capability in Azure Automanage allows IT Admins to quickly deploy security updates on Windows Server virtual machines without frequent reboots. The hotpatching support brings a bunch of benefits for Windows Server 2022 Azure Edition customers,…

Microsoft has announced some important updates for Azure Active Directory customers. The company says that the new Azure Active Directory certificate-based authentication (Azure AD CBA) service is now available in public preview for all commercial and US Government cloud customers. Previously, Azure Active Directory customers had to implement a federated certificate-based authentication mechanism. However, some…

Microsoft has launched a streamlined submissions experience in the Microsoft 365 Defender portal. The new submissions page provides dedicated item tabs to help IT Admins track and analyze malicious emails, email attachments, URLs, and messages reported by end-users in their organization. To get started, IT Admins will need to head to the Microsoft 365 Defender…

Microsoft has released a big update for its new Windows 11 OS, which brings a bunch of improvements to the taskbar and much more. The first new feature that the company highlighted today is a mute/unmute button for Microsoft Teams calls in the taskbar. The latest Windows 11 update also includes a new feature that…