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Last week, Canonical announced the release of Ubuntu 23.04. The latest version of its Linux distribution includes improved Azure Active Directory support, a new desktop installer, and other enterprise-focused features. Codenamed Lunar Lobster, Ubuntu Desktop 23.04 provides native user authentication with Azure Active Directory (Azure AD). This release enables Microsoft 365 enterprise customers to authenticate…

Microsoft has announced a public preview of Windows LAPS with Azure Active Directory (recently renamed Microsoft Entra ID). The new long-awaited feature enables IT admins to rotate and backup passwords using Azure Active Directory. Windows Local Administrator Password Solution (LAPS) is a tool that enables IT admins to automatically manage and back up passwords for…

Microsoft has released an updated version of Windows Update Health Tools for Windows 11 and Windows 10. The company detailed in a support document that the new update is designed to improve the reliability of the Windows update process. Specifically, the new KB4023057 intends to address issues that could prevent the installation of critical updates…

Microsoft has announced that its Azure Storage Mover is now generally available for enterprise customers. The new tool intends to make it easier to migrate files and folders from on-premises systems to Azure cloud storage. Microsoft’s Azure Storage Mover made its debut in public preview in December last year. The managed cloud migration service enables…

AWS Amplify is an Amazon Web Services (AWS) application development framework that organizations can use to develop and deploy web and mobile applications. It’s an end-to-end solution for creating an app backend and a frontend UI in just a couple of hours. In this article, I will explain how AWS Amplify works and how it…

Microsoft announced yesterday that Office 2013 reached its end of support on April 11, 2023. The company has warned that it will no longer provide security patches and technical support for the perpetual-license product. Microsoft originally released Office 2013 back in January 2013. The company dropped mainstream support for the product on April 20, 2018….

Microsoft is bringing its new AI-powered Copilot to Microsoft Viva. The employee experience platform integrated within Microsoft Teams offers different modules such as Viva Goals and Viva Engage, and all of them will get new generative AI features once Copilot in Microsoft Viva ships later this year. The Microsoft 365 Copilot that the company announced…

Microsoft has announced the release of Microsoft Sentinel All-in-One v2. The latest version is designed to help customers reduce costs and speed up the deployment and configuration process. Microsoft Sentinel is a cloud-based Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) solution for Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Azure. Formerly known as Azure Sentinel, the tool allows customers…

Microsoft has released Hotpatching support for Windows Server Azure Edition VMs running the Desktop Experience installation mode. The company originally introduced Hotpatching for Server Core in February 2022, and this capability is now available in preview for the Desktop Experience. Hotpatching is a feature that is used to apply security patches to Windows devices without…

Microsoft’s new Azure Virtual Desktop app is available to download from the Microsoft Store. The company announced the app’s availability in public preview yesterday, and it runs on both Windows 11 and Windows 10 PCs. Until now, the only way to access Azure Virtual Desktop resources was to download the Microsoft Remote Desktop application. Additionally,…

When you virtualize an Azure Stack HCI cluster, you may want to load balance applications running on it to optimize server utilization. While there are various built-in options to do that, they may be quite limited depending on your usage scenarios. In this article, I’ll discuss the various options you have to implement Azure Stack…

Microsoft is adopting a new weather-themed taxonomy to describe threat actors across the world. Some nation-state actors such as Russia, North Korea, China, and Iran will be designated with a specific weather event in the new threat actor naming taxonomy, and the company will do the same for more specific threat actor groups.  Microsoft currently…