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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…

Microsoft has released updates to fix a bug that was previously impacting the Windows Server Update Services (also known as WSUS). The company detailed on the Windows Health Dashboard that the issue prevented the distribution of updates to client devices running Windows 11 version 22H2 as well as Windows Server 2022. Windows Server Update Services…

Earlier this year, Microsoft released watermarking support in public preview for Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD). The company detailed in a blog post yesterday that the security feature is now generally available for all commercial customers. Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) is a cloud-based virtual desktop and application virtualization solution that runs in Microsoft Azure. The managed…

Microsoft announced yesterday a new update for its Microsoft Entra ID Protection service. This release brings a new dashboard, advanced detection capabilities, integration with Microsoft 365 Defender, and more. The Microsoft Entra ID Protection service leverages machine learning to detect, investigate, and remediate identity-based sign-in risks and unusual activities. It uses risk-based adaptive access policies…

Clipchamp, the video editing app that Microsoft acquired back in 2021 will soon be available for Microsoft 365 commercial customers. The cloud-based video editor is adding support for work accounts, and it will also seamlessly integrate with OneDrive, SharePoint, Teams, and other Microsoft productivity apps.  Microsoft believes that Clipchamp can become a great resource for…

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is planning to charge organizations for the use of public IPv4 addresses. Starting on February 1, 2024, AWS customers will need to pay $0.005 per IP address per hour for all public IPv4 addresses. According to AWS, the cost of purchasing a single IPv4 address increased by over 300 percent during…