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Last month, Microsoft introduced support for number matching to its Authenticator app. The company has announced on the Microsoft 365 admin center that the new security feature will be enabled by default for all Microsoft Authenticator users worldwide in February 2023. With number matching enabled, the Microsoft Authenticator app requires users to type a number…

The Active Directory Recycle Bin is a tool that IT pros can use to recover lingering objects on a network. In this article, I’ll explain how to enable and use the Active Directory Recycle Bin and recover objects without the need to use System State backups. There are two main ways to enable the Active…

Amazon announced earlier this month the availability of the AWS Resource Explorer. This new Amazon Web Services tool enables you to search through the AWS resources in your account across all different Regions. If you have a substantial AWS cloud deployment, then you probably know that finding specific resources in your environment can be a…

Microsoft has started rolling out an out-of-band update to address a bug that was previously causing Kerberos authentication issues on Windows domain controllers (DCs). Microsoft has recently confirmed the problem on the Windows release health dashboard following the release of the November Patch Tuesday updates last week. According to Microsoft, the issue leads to failures…

Back in April, Microsoft announced a new organizational messages feature that allows companies to send messages to users on their desktops, lock screens, or above the taskbar on Windows 11 PCs. The organizational messages feature is now available in public preview for Insiders on the Release Preview Channel in Windows 11 22H2. Specifically, IT admins…

Azure ExpressRoute is Microsoft’s solution for extending an on-premises network into the Microsoft cloud with a private connection. In this article, I’ll be explaining how you can migrate an Azure ExpressRoute connection without experiencing any downtime. There are two possible scenarios for the migration of an Azure ExpressRoute connection. Your first option is to migrate…

Microsoft’s new unified Outlook app for Windows (aka One Outlook) is finally getting support for multiple accounts (via Thurrott). As of today, Outlook users can add personal Microsoft accounts as well as work and school accounts within the same app. Microsoft first started testing the new web-based Outlook for Windows client with Office Insiders in…

Microsoft started switching off Basic Authentication support for Exchange Online customers back in October. The company announced yesterday that it’s killing off Basic Authentication for the Autodiscover service on December 31, 2022. The Autodiscover protocol allows client applications to get the configuration data required to communicate with the Exchange Server. It’s used by Outlook, Exchange…

Microsoft has announced a new “multi-year” deal with Nvidia to build an AI supercomputer hosted in Microsoft Azure and powered by tens of thousands of Nvidia GPUs. The new partnership should enable organizations to train, deploy and scale AI applications and services. “AI is fueling the next wave of automation across enterprises and industrial computing,…

Microsoft has launched a new Games for Work app that allows users to play casual games during Teams meetings. The company announced this morning that the new app is only available for Microsoft Teams enterprise and education customers. The Microsoft Casual Games team, a part of Xbox Game Studios, has built the new Games for…

Last month, Microsoft announced at its Ignite 2022 conference that a Microsoft 365 app would replace the existing Office app on Windows, mobile, and the web. A new message posted on the Microsoft 365 Admin Center yesterday indicates that the new Microsoft 365 web app has started rolling out this week, with Windows and mobile…

Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID) is a data storage technique that groups multiple physical storage disks (HDDs or SSDs) to work together as a single virtual storage drive. In this article, we’ll be detailing two of the most used RAID levels – RAID 5 and RAID 6. We’ll be highlighting the major differences between…