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Last week, Microsoft rolled out a new set of Patch Tuesday updates for all supported versions of Windows 10 and Windows 11. The company has acknowledged that the latest updates are causing problems with L2TP/IPsec VPN connections on Windows 11 PCs. Last week, the issue was first reported by several Windows users and IT admins…

Last year, Microsoft introduced the public preview of a system-preferred multifactor authentication (MFA) for Azure Active Directory (Azure AD). The company announced yesterday that the feature is now generally available for all commercial customers. What is system-preferred MFA authentication? With system-preferred authentication enabled, Azure AD evaluates all authentication methods registered for a user account, and…

Microsoft has announced new network traffic analysis capabilities for its Azure Firewall solution. The latest logging and metric improvements enable customers to view detailed insights about the traffic processed by the firewall. Azure Firewall is a cloud-based network firewall security solution that helps IT admins to protect cloud workloads running in Microsoft Azure. The service…

Microsoft has announced the release of its Azure Container Storage solution. The new cloud-based service enables organizations to create and manage block storage volumes for container applications and workloads. Previously, customers had to use individual container storage interface (CSI) drivers in order to offer cloud storage for containers. It caused various operational issues related to…

The European Union has opened an informal probe against Microsoft Azure cloud services. According to a report from Bloomberg, the antitrust watchdog is planning to investigate Microsoft over alleged anticompetitive behavior with Microsoft Azure. Specifically, the European Commission is soliciting feedback from Microsoft’s customers on whether or not to move to a deeper investigation. The…

Google announced this week that Calendar Interoperability improvements are now available for users of Microsoft Outlook. Calendar Interoperability is what allows Google Calendar and Microsoft Exchange to seamlessly work together, allowing users of both systems to share their schedules and view availability information. It used to be true that Outlook works best with Microsoft Exchange…

Microsoft has announced some improvements coming to the search experience in Microsoft Teams chats and channels. The company highlighted a new search pane on the sidebar to let users easily find messages, files, and URLs shared within a particular chat or channel. Currently, the Microsoft Teams desktop app provides a search bar located in the…

Microsoft is reminding customers that Windows 10 version 21H2 will reach end of support next month. The company updated its Windows Health Dashboard to indicate that Windows 10 Home, Pro, Pro Education, and Pro for Workstations editions will no longer receive updates after June 13, 2023. “The upcoming June 2023 security update, to be released…

Google shows off its competitor to Microsoft 365 Copilot, Duet AI, at its I/O conference this week. I look at what Google announced and what Microsoft also revealed about its own AI tech recently as it enters wider testing. More Google I/O news on Petri: Google Introduces Duet AI With Generative AI Features for Workspace…

Microsoft has recently introduced Token Protection for sign-in sessions support for its Azure AD Conditional Access service. The new feature is designed to help organizations protect their critical resources against token theft. Last fall, Microsoft’s Detection and Response Team (DART) reported an increase in adversary-in-the-middle (AitM) phishing attacks to compromise organizational resources. This technique allows…

A self join in SQL Server is a useful statement to use for demonstrating relationships within a single SQL Server table database. In this tutorial, I’ll show you when and how to use an SQL self join. To do that, I’ll be detailing an sql self join example where I’ll list the supervisors for all…

Microsoft has released a security update to address a critical Outlook vulnerability that affects all versions of Windows. The new security flaw (CVE-2023-29324) allowed threat actors to bypass patches for the original Outlook bug that was already patched in March 2023. Microsoft disclosed the privilege escalation flaw (CVE-2023-23397) in Outlook for Windows back in March….