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Microsoft has announced the general availability of Azure Deployment Environments. It’s a new managed service that lets developers use infrastructure-as-code templates to quickly spin up on-demand app deployment environments. Microsoft highlighted three key factors for effectively managing cloud-based infrastructure in enterprise environments: speed, usability, and governance. The company has incorporated customer feedback to build Azure…

Microsoft kicked off its Build 2023 conference today, and the company announced several updates for its products and services. Arun Ulagaratchagan, CVP of Azure Data, unveiled Microsoft Fabric, an end-to-end data analytics platform that incorporates Data Factory, Synapse, and Power BI into a unified solution. “With Microsoft Fabric, customers can use a single product with…

Microsoft has launched GitHub Advanced Security for Azure DevOps in public preview today. The new service is designed to help developers embed automated security checks into the platform to protect their application code and supply chain. Microsoft first introduced GitHub Advanced Security in private preview back in November 2022. The service allows customers to address…

Microsoft has unveiled a range of new updates for its Microsoft 365 ecosystem at its annual Build developer conference. The company announced that Microsoft Mesh, a new mixed reality (MR) platform, is available in private preview starting today. Microsoft Mesh is a new Azure-powered service that was first announced in March 2021. It enables remote…

Microsoft has announced a slew of improvements coming to its Edge browser at Build 2023. The new features include Microsoft Edge for Business (preview), Microsoft Edge management service, Microsoft 365 Copilot integration in Edge, and more. Microsoft has introduced a dedicated workspace called Microsoft Edge for Business. The new experience features an app icon, the…

Today at Build 2023, Microsoft announced Windows Copilot for Windows 11. As the first PC operating system to include integrated artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities, like those found in ChatGPT and Bing Chat, Microsoft is centralizing AI features already available in Bing Chat as a new capability in Windows 11. It will also allow users to…

At its Build 2023 developer conference, Microsoft detailed some important updates for its Microsoft 365 apps. The company announced this morning that developers can now use plugins to integrate their apps and services into Microsoft 365 Copilot. “Developers can now integrate their apps and services into Microsoft 365 Copilot with plugins and reach hundreds of…

Microsoft is working on a new Collaborative Stageview feature for Microsoft Teams. The company has announced on the Microsoft 365 admin center that this update will allow meeting participants to pop out app content into a separate window. “With Collaborative Stageview, app content opens in a new Teams window where users can engage with content…

Last week, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced that its Amazon Detective service is getting a new integration with AWS Security Hub. The new feature allows organizations to quickly and efficiently investigate AWS security issues. Amazon Detective is a service that enables organizations to investigate security issues and suspicious activities in their AWS resources and accounts….

If most organizations understand the need to have a robust disaster recovery (DR) plan, IT Pros should also know that testing these plans is essential. If you don’t implement disaster recovery testing, you won’t know if your plans will work when you need them. And to properly test your DR plans, you may want to break them….

Microsoft released an update to permanently disable Internet Explorer 11 (IE11) on Windows 10 back in February. Now, the company has provided an update about the next steps to completely remove the last bits of the legacy web browser on Windows devices. Microsoft unveiled its plans to deprecate Internet Explorer 11 in favor of Edge…

In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to install Docker on Ubuntu 22.04 and detail what you need to get started with containers and images. How to Install Docker on Ubuntu 22.04 We’re going to install the latest stable version of Docker from the official repository. However, before we proceed, we need to update our…