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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….

Microsoft has recently released a new tool that enables Windows users to detect compatibility issues with memory integrity (also known as hypervisor-protected code integrity (HVCI)). The memory integrity scan tool is available to download on Windows 10, Windows 11, and Windows Server machines. What is memory integrity? Memory integrity is a built-in feature that helps…

Google announced the launch of its new A3 supercomputer virtual machines at Google I/O 2023. The company explained that the new offerings are designed to cater to the needs of the resource-intensive Large Language Models (LLMs). Google explained that its A3 supercomputer virtual machines (VMs) are powered by Nvidia’s H100 GPUs built on the Hopper…

Google kicked off its annual I/O developer conference yesterday by showing it was very serious about catching up to competitors in the AI space. Duet AI is the new name of Google’s generative AI efforts, and the company detailed yesterday what to expect from Duet AI in Google Workspace, as well as Duet AI for…