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This Week in IT now has its own YouTube Channel! If you have been watching This Week in IT since it started more than a year ago, you will probably realize that home was the Petri IT Knowledgebase YouTube channel. We recently decided that it would be nice to give the show its own identity…

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has warned about two vulnerabilities in Ivanti’s Endpoint Manager Mobile (EPMM). The security flaws allowed threat actors to compromise 12 Norwegian government agencies. Ivanti’s Endpoint Manager Mobile is a solution that lets IT admins secure and manage mobile devices in enterprise environments. They can enforce policies, deploy applications,…

Microsoft is getting ready to introduce support for the Microsoft Azure Attestation (MAA) service on Windows 11. The company announced yesterday that the feature will begin rolling out to all commercial customers in mid-August. Currently, Windows 11 and Windows 10 use the Windows Device Health Attestation (DHA) service for client device attestation. The configuration service…

In Office 365 (Exchange Online) and Exchange Server environments, granting ‘Full Mailbox’ access to a user is a common administrative task, especially when dealing with shared mailboxes, delegation, or troubleshooting. In this article, we will explore step-by-step procedures for granting Full Mailbox access to users in both Office 365 and Exchange Server environments. I will…

In this episode of First Ring Daily, Brad Sams and Paul Thurrott discuss Microsoft killing off the Cortana app on Windows 11, what the new Windows Copilot brings to the table, and more.

Microsoft is making some minor changes to its cloud licensing policies for specific customers that run Microsoft Office on AWS. This move comes a week after the European Commission opened an antitrust investigation of Microsoft Teams bundling with Office 365/Microsoft 365 subscriptions. In 2019, Microsoft announced new licensing terms that made it more expensive to…

Microsoft has issued a security advisory about a new Russia-linked hacking group dubbed Midnight Blizzard. The threat actors used Microsoft Teams chat to launch social engineering campaigns (which started in late May) that affected dozens of organizations. According to the Microsoft threat intelligence team, the hackers (known as APT29) pretend to be technical support staff…

With the exception of Windows 11 Moment 3 landing for everyone in July, it’s been a fairly quiet month. But Insiders did get access to Windows Copilot and the new Outlook for Windows client and Microsoft revealed more about Windows 11 version 23H2. Let’s get started! Windows 11 Moment 3 generally available with July Patch…

Microsoft is planning to sunset its Microsoft Managed Desktop service next year. The company has quietly updated its support document to indicate that the service will be deprecated on July 31, 2024. Microsoft Managed Desktop (MMD) is a cloud-based device management service that includes Windows 10/11 Enterprise and Microsoft Office apps. It provides a simplified…

Microsoft announced yesterday that it will soon deprecate Transport Layer Security (TLS) versions 1.0 and 1.1 on Windows 11. The company plans to drop support for the encryption protocols by default on the latest Windows 11 Insider Preview Builds in September. TLS is a cryptographic protocol that’s designed to provide communication security over a computer…

Starting with SQL Server 2017, Microsoft has supported SQL Server on Linux, which has the same underlying database engine as the Windows version. In this article, I’ll show you how to install SQL Server on Linux, as well as Azure Data Studio. The most recent release of SQL Server is SQL Server 2022, which offers…

Summer is in full swing, and it is hot out there! Speaking of hot things, Microsoft just released last month the 2023 Release Plan Wave 2 for its Power Platform, which details updates coming between October 2023 and March 2024. Let’s take a look at what’s in the pipeline!   Power Apps: More upcoming AI-assisted features…