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Microsoft has announced a new Collaboration Security feature for Microsoft Teams. The new set of capabilities provides preventive, detective, and protective features that ensure end-to-end security for select Microsoft Teams customers. “With 71% of companies admitting that sensitive and business-critical data is regularly shared via collaboration tools like Microsoft Teams, organizations are increasingly realizing the…

Tables are one of the core components of every relational database system and SQL Server is no different. Tables store the data that the relational database engine uses for queries, reports, and other operations. In this article, I’ll show you how to modify data from a SQL Server table using T-SQL INSERT, T-SQL UPDATE, T-SQL…

Microsoft announced yesterday a second-generation Surface Hub 2S digital whiteboard that will be available later this year. The new digital whiteboard will be running a new Teams Rooms experience that will differ from the existing Windows 10 Team Edition that powers the existing Surface Hub 2S. The Surface Hub 2S was originally released back in…

Microsoft announced the release of a new Security Copilot tool for cyber security professionals. The AI-powered chat assistant is designed to help analysts better understand potential threats and assess risk exposure to prevent security breaches in their environments. Microsoft’s Security Copilot feature is based on OpenAI’s GPT-4 generative AI and its own proprietary security models….

Microsoft has started rolling out a new Authenticator Lite feature in preview for its Outlook mobile app. The company announced on the Microsoft 365 admin center that it allows users to sign into their work or school accounts where MFA is enabled via the Outlook app on iOS and Android devices. Multifactor authentication (MFA) is…

Microsoft has announced the public preview of a new custom claims provider feature for Azure Active Directory (Azure AD). The custom extension allows organizations to call an API and map custom claims into the security token during the authentication process. The custom extensions feature enables Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) users to interact with external…

As Microsoft is kicking off its Enterprise Connect conference this morning, the company announced a new Teams desktop client that brings big performance improvements for Windows users. Microsoft has also unveiled several new features and capabilities coming to Microsoft Teams this month. The new version of Microsoft Teams has been built from the ground up,…

This week, March 30th at 9.20am ET, Petri is hosting its first free virtual 1-day conference of the year on identity management and privileged access management (PAM). In our 2023 audience survey, IT Pros cited security as their number one concern. And because identity and privilege management form the basis of good security and a…

It’s been a long time coming for long-suffering Microsoft Teams users. Today, Microsoft is launching access to a public preview of its new client software for Teams on Windows. The new client, which is officially version 2.1, will bring x2 faster performance while using 50% less memory. The current Teams client is Electron based, a…

Microsoft unveiled its plans to increase the price of its cloud services in the European Union (EU) in January 2023. Indeed, Microsoft’s cloud offerings (including Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Azure) will become up to 15 percent more expensive for European commercial customers on April 1, 2023. Microsoft explained that it’s working to standardize the prices…

Many of you have been using Azure Active Directory Connect to manage your hybrid identities and synchronization of users from Active Directory to Azure Active Directory (recently renamed Microsoft Entra ID). This modern technology is called Azure AD Connect cloud sync. In this article, I’ll walk you through the installation and basic configuration of Azure…

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has released a new open-source incident response tool. The Python-based utility is designed to help organizations track vulnerabilities in Microsoft cloud environments. Specifically, CISA has teamed up with the U.S. Department of Energy’s Sandia National Laboratories to develop the Untitled Goose Tool. It utilizes different sophisticated hunting…