Russell Smith

November brings a new version of Edge in the Stable Channel, Windows Feature Experience Packs for Insiders, and news of a hardware security architecture designed to protect Windows 10 devices against physical attack.

SMB Compression improves speeds and lowers bandwidth utilization when copying large files across the network.

Microsoft uses National Cybersecurity Awareness Month to highlight import security issues to help raise awareness with its customers.

Microsoft patches 112 bugs, including a zero-day for the Windows kernel.

Using the New-ADUser cmdlet and -Instance parameter, you can copy AD attributes from an existing user when creating new Active Directory user accounts.

UEBA can identify unusual activity and help SOC teams identify if there is a compromised entity or a malicious insider.

At Ignite earlier this year, Microsoft announced that the Windows Admin Center is coming to the Azure portal.

This month’s big news is the release of Windows 10 version 20H2. It’s a minor update but it comes with some worthwhile improvements. Also in October, Microsoft released a new version of its Edge browser to the Stable Channel and Microsoft provides a workaround for the ‘Reset this PC’ bug in Windows 10 version 2004.

In the latest preview version of Windows Package Manager, you can install Microsoft Store apps from the command line.

In this article, I explain the differences between Basic Mobility and Security and Microsoft Intune, both MDM services from Microsoft.

First announced at Ignite in September 2020, Microsoft Tunnel Gateway provides access to on-premises corporate resources from Android and iOS devices.

This month Microsoft patches a serious remote code execution (RCE) in Windows that could be easily wormable and Outlook gets a patch for a bug that could let an attacker run arbitrary code on affected systems. And after a break of a few months, Adobe releases a security update for Flash Player.