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Effective project management is essential for businesses of all shapes and sizes. Using Office 365 tools for project management can help your organization to better manage project timelines, deliverables, and budgets while giving increased visibility into the status of a project. As well as into a project’s costs, risks, and team members. This post is…

Microsoft is rolling out an out-of-band update to address an issue that causes Transport Layer Security (TLS)/ Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) handshake failures on Windows PCs. The company has acknowledged on the Windows release health dashboard that the October Patch Tuesday updates trigger network connectivity problems on various supported versions of Windows. “We address an…

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 – Ru Campbell and Peter Rising Share Ignite Highlights at South Coast Summit This week, Peter Rising and Ru Campbell,…

Microsoft has recently discovered a new ransomware campaign that’s targeting organizations within the transportation and logistics industries across Poland and Ukraine. The novel Prestige ransomware strain was first found on October 11, and the attackers targeted a wide range of systems within an hour. The Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC) explained that it has been…

Microsoft has released a new setting for conditional access policies that enables organizations to define the authentication strength of accepted connections. This release brings the ability to specify a combination of multifactor authentication (MFA) methods that allow external users to access a particular resource. Conditional access policies let IT admins create a set of rules…

Wi-Fi is one of the most widely used wireless local area network protocols across the world. You may not be aware of it, but your devices may be alternatively using the 2.4 GHz or 5 GHz Wi-Fi bands to transmit data depending on your environment. In this article, I will help you to better understand…

Microsoft Teams is getting a new app that will allow users to request payments during meetings. As of today, Google Meet and Zoom let users accept payments from clients via third-party integration, and this capability is now coming to Microsoft Teams in public preview in November. “The Payments app in the Microsoft Teams app store…

Microsoft has announced Microsoft Syntex, a new set of apps and services that use AI to analyze and organize large data sets and unorganized content. Microsoft’s President for Collaborative Apps and Platforms, Jeff Teper, explained that more than 1.6 billion documents are added to Microsoft 365 daily, and organizations spend $46 billion per year on…

In this article, we’ll be comparing Microsoft’s Azure Directory Premium P1 and P2 plans to help you choose the best suite of identity products for your organization. We’ll help you understand the different features between the Microsoft Entra ID Premium P1 and P2 plans, as well as the pricing tiers for each offering. Part of…

Microsoft announced yesterday that a new Windows 365 application is now available in public preview on the Microsoft Store. The new app, which was first unveiled back in April, allows employees to access their Windows 365 Cloud PCs directly from the taskbar on Windows 11. “With Windows 365 app, you can access your Windows 365…

Microsoft announced several new security features and services at its Ignite 2022 conference this week. Specifically, the company introduced two new security solutions called Defender for DevOps and Defender Cloud Security Posture Management. Microsoft Defender for DevOps is a service that enables developers to detect and remediate code vulnerabilities during the software development life cycle….

Microsoft introduced a new Microsoft 365 app at its Ignite conference yesterday. This app will replace the all-in-one Office app available on Windows and mobile devices, as well as the office.com web portal. But that wasn’t the whole story. On the microsoft365.com home page, Microsoft detailed that “Office is becoming Microsoft 365.” This requires a…