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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…

Microsoft has announced some new features added to its Windows Autopatch service this month. Windows Autopatch is a cloud-based tool that enables organizations to automate patch management for Windows 10, Windows 11, Microsoft Teams, Edge, and other Microsoft 365 services. For starters, Microsoft announced that FastTrack support is now available to help enterprise customers adopt…

Power Automate is a workflow service that allows you to automate many different actions across common apps and services. You can use it to automate just about anything you do by using what we call “flows”, which are a series of instructions you tell Power Automate to do for you. In this article, we’ll show you…

Microsoft has released some much-anticipated updates for Microsoft Planner this week. The company announced that its popular task management tool is getting support for a new recurring tasks feature and Grid view. The recurring tasks feature should be a welcome addition for people who need to create dedicated tasks for daily scrum meetings, weekly progress…

Advanced password attacks, like brute force and those launched by malicious insiders, are devastating the security of today’s enterprises and cloud services. ADSelfService Plus from ManageEngine can protect web properties from such attacks with multi-factor authentication (MFA). Multi-factor authentication is the best way to protect Active Directory and cloud-based user accounts As the impacts of…

Microsoft has announced that it’s bringing Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) support to its Azure Active Directory services. The company plans to roll out IPv6 support to all enterprise customers in a staggered manner on March 31. With this release, users will be able to access Azure Active Directory (AD) services through IPv6, IPv4, or…

In this article, you will learn how to edit the Windows 11 hosts file.  The Windows 11 hosts file is an essential tool that allows you to override DNS settings. There are several easy ways that you can edit the file, and in this article, I will take you through each method step-by-step. In the…

Microsoft has announced its plans to launch a new Microsoft 365 Basic tier later this month. The affordable plan costs $1.99 per month (or $19.99 per year), and includes 100GB of OneDrive cloud storage as well as an ad-free experience in the Outlook web app, with additional security features to follow later this year. Microsoft…