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Last week, C-Facts announced a new partnership with Ingram Micro. The companies have signed a five-year agreement to provide C-Facts Cloud Cost Management services to Ingram Micro Cloud Partners and their clients worldwide. C-Facts is a popular cloud cost management solution that enables organizations to monitor and control their spending on cloud services. The tool…

Microsoft has introduced a new Report Suspicious Activity feature in Azure Active Directory (recently renamed Microsoft Entra ID). Suspicious activity reports provide detailed information about unusual sign-in attempts to help organizations detect and respond to potential security threats. According to Microsoft, the new feature enables users to report suspicious activities for unknown authentication requests. Users…

Installing and using OneDrive for Business will help your users be more productive with their files, from any place with an Internet connection. Do they know how to access the OneDrive website? Do they know how to use the OneDrive sync app in Windows? Read on to discover everything you need to know about how…

Microsoft is getting ready to release a pay-as-you-go licensing option for its Microsoft Syntex service. The new plan will include unstructured and prebuilt document processing, and it will become generally available for customers on March 7. Microsoft Syntex is an AI-powered service that lets organizations automatically analyze unstructured content (like documents, images, and videos) and…

Microsoft has published an advisory recommending IT admins to remove select antivirus exclusions in Exchange Servers. The company explained that this configuration change should help IT admins to improve the security posture of their organizations. Up until now, Microsoft recommended Exchange Server admins to configure antivirus solutions to protect their systems. It is also a…

Windows 11 is the first version of Windows that Mac users can’t install natively on Mac. That’s because Intel-based Macs don’t need the minimum requirements for the new OS, while Apple Silicon Macs have dropped support for Apple’s Boot Camp multi-boot utility. In this article, I’ll explain how to install Windows 11 on Mac using…

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: Merethe Stave on ChatGPT, Community, and Viva Explorers Merethe Stave is a Senior Cloud Architect at Cloudway and a…

Microsoft has recently announced the release of SharePoint Workflow Manager. The new workflow engine powers the SharePoint 2013 Workflow platform and replaces the Service Bus and Microsoft Workflow Manager for Windows Server. SharePoint Server uses Microsoft Workflow Manager and Service Bus to facilitate business processes in on-premises environments. These components could be particularly useful to…

Microsoft introduced a new automatic attack disruption feature in its Microsoft 365 Defender solution at Ignite 2022. The company announced yesterday that the feature can now protect enterprise customers against business email compromise (BEC) campaigns. Automatic attack disruption leverages extended detection and response (XDR) technology to contain ongoing ransomware campaigns or other sophisticated attacks across…

Tauri is a cross-platform programming framework based on Rust. In this article, you’ll learn why Tauri might take over from Electron as the cross-platform framework of choice and how the framework is used. What is the Tauri framework? Tauri is a relatively new cross-platform application framework. Many apps we use day-to-day, like Slack, Microsoft Teams,…

Microsoft has announced the release of a new update for Visual Studio 2022. The version 17.5 of the IDE brings new AI-powered coding suggestions, an Accessibility Checker feature, improved code search experience, and much more. Microsoft has introduced support for AI-powered “Intent-based” suggestions in Visual Studio 2022. The new feature uses Machine Learning algorithms to…

VMware has released vSphere ESXi update to address the Secure Boot issue with Windows Server 2022 virtual machines. Microsoft acknowledged the problem following the release of the security update to Windows Server 2022 on February 14. According to Microsoft and VMware, some users who installed the KB5022842 update failed to boot virtual machines (VMs) that…