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Microsoft has finally decided to stop selling Windows 10 licenses to consumers and enterprise customers by the end of this month. The company has quietly announced on the Windows 10 product pages that it will block digital downloads of the Home and Pro editions of the OS on January 31, 2023. “January 31, 2023 will…

Microsoft has patched vulnerabilities in four different Azure cloud services. The security flaws could enable attackers to perform a server-side request forgery (SSRF) attack to gain unauthorized access to cloud resources. The security vulnerabilities were first discovered by researchers from Orca Security between mid-October and mid-December last year. The flaws affect various Microsoft cloud services…

Microsoft is planning to disable insecure SMB (Server Message Block) guest authentication fallbacks by default in Windows 11 Pro. The company has announced that this security improvement is already included in the Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 25276 released this month According to Microsoft, the guest authentication method doesn’t provide support for inspection trails and…

Microsoft Lists is a new application that was created as an evolution of SharePoint lists. It helps users in the corporate and consumer markets to track, share and organize their work in an online platform that is available on the web and mobile devices. In this article, we’ll explain how to get started with Microsoft…

Git has recently released new updates to address two critical security vulnerabilities that could allow hackers to launch remote code execution attacks. The company has also patched another Windows-specific flaw affecting the Git GUI tool. Security researchers from X41 and the GitLab Security Research Team first identified the security vulnerabilities as part of an audit…

Apple has finally announced its much-anticipated MacBook Pro and Mac Mini models powered by new M2 Pro and M2 Max chips. The next-generation processors are much more powerful, which bring performance and energy efficiency improvements compared to the M1 chips previously seen in the 2021 MacBook Pro. According to Apple, the new M2 Max chip…

Microsoft has announced the general availability of its Azure OpenAI service. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella also unveiled its plans to launch OpenAI’s ChatGPT chatbot as a service to make it accessible to more customers. Microsoft launched its Azure OpenAI service back in November 2021. It enables businesses to integrate powerful AI tools (such as GPT-3.5,…

Last week, Microsoft confirmed a new issue that caused application shortcuts to disappear from the Taskbar and Start Menu on Windows PCs. Microsoft has recently released a PowerShell script that helps IT admins to restore some deleted Windows application shortcuts. On January 13, several IT admins reported on Reddit and Twitter that a buggy attack…

Cloud Conversations is a regular podcast that we’ll be featuring here on Petri. It’s about everything connected to cloud computing, including technologies like Azure, Microsoft 365, Power Platform, Microsoft Endpoint Manager (MEM), Microsoft Defender, Windows, Intune, and much more! Cloud Conversations – Femke de Vroome on Favourite Teams Features and Teams Governance Femke de Vroome is a Productivity Engineer at…

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) now supports creating custom SQL Server database images using a Custom Engine Version (CEV). Businesses can use Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server using Custom Engine Version to build new custom images based on an Amazon Machine Image (AMI) with the required Windows operating system (OS), database customizations, and third-party…

Key takeaway: RAID 5 provides good read performance and it can tolerate one disk failure in a minimum 3-disk array. RAID 10 provides fast read and write performance and it can potentially tolerate up to 2 drive failures in a minimum 4-disk array. RAID 5 and RAID 10 are two different redundant array of independent…

Microsoft is investigating a new bug that’s currently removing application shortcuts from the Taskbar and Start Menu on Windows PCs. The company has acknowledged that the problem affects enterprise customers using Microsoft Defender for Endpoint to block malware attacks. In a Reddit thread, several enterprise admins reported that a false positive triggered by a buggy…