Author: Russell Smith

May was a busy month for Windows, with the release of the Windows 10 May 2020 Update and Build.

Microsoft announces GPU hardware acceleration and GUI app support for WSL 2 at Build 2020.

Microsoft is hoping to make it easier for organizations to give Azure Active Directory (AAD) joined and MDM-managed devices access to printers.

Microsoft Windows and Windows Server support a variety of different VPN technologies. The most advanced are DirectAccess and Windows 10 Always On VPN. In this article, I look at the advantages of Always On VPN over DirectAccess, and outline the infrastructure required to deploy Always On VPN.

VPNs are commonly used to give users working from home access to corporate resources. But traditional forced tunnel VPNs can have a significant impact on the performance of cloud services like Office 365. In this article, I look at the different ways VPNs can be configured for performance and security.

Microsoft recently announced at Build 2020 that it is working on a native open-source package manager for Windows. Due to hit general availability in May 2021, Windows Package Manager is now accessible on GitHub and for Windows Insiders in preview. In this article, I will show you how to use Windows Package Manager (WPM) to… Read More

Intel releases 27 10th generation CPUs for desktop and mobile with Hardware Shield to improve remote worker security.

Microsoft issues fixes for 111 vulnerabilities, making this month the third biggest set of patches in Microsoft's history.

Azure AD External Identities, now in public preview, brings easier authentication for users, organizations, and developers.

Microsoft releases Windows Terminal version 1.0 at Build 2020.

This month Microsoft patches three Windows 10 zero-days, including a patch for two RCE flaws discovered last month in the Windows Adobe Type Manager Library. There are also important updates for vulnerabilities in the OneDrive desktop app for Windows, the DNS client service, and in the way that Windows handles token relationships.

Cloud Discovery, Application Proxy, passwordless authentication, and more Azure Active Directory features coming to Microsoft 365 Business in April.

Microsoft announced that it is delaying disabling legacy TLS protocols by default in all its supported browsers.

Active Directory authentication for Azure Files, which is now in preview, builds on Azure AD DS authentication over SMB by letting you mount shares created using Azure Files with Windows Server Active Directory (AD) credentials.

There's been a lot written in the press recently about video conferencing app Zoom. But how bad are Zoom's security issues?