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Back in March, Microsoft started testing a new SMB authentication rate limiter feature in Windows 11 and Windows Server. Now, the company has enabled this feature by default in the latest Windows 11 preview build 25206 for Insiders in the Dev Channel. The Server Message Block (SMB) protocol is a network protocol that lets users…

As we’re currently going through times of economic uncertainty, an Azure certification can really help IT pros stay ahead of the curve. You may think that getting IT certifications are not worth the time and effort. However, if you’re interested in Azure and willing to future-proof your career, getting an Azure certification can really help….

Microsoft has announced the integration of new apps and services in its Viva employee experience platform. The company is launching today a new app called Viva Pulse that enables team leads and managers to get regular employee feedback directly within Microsoft Teams. “Viva Pulse uses smart templates and research-backed questions to help managers pinpoint what’s…

Last week, Uber confirmed a major cybersecurity attack that compromised its internal communications and engineering systems. The company believes that someone affiliated with the hacking group Lapsus$ leveraged the MFA fatigue attack technique to compromise an Uber employee account. According to the New York Times, the hackers social engineered the company’s worker after discovering his…

Microsoft Defender for Endpoint will soon turn on tamper protection by default for all existing enterprise customers. The tamper protection feature prevents malicious apps from making unwanted changes to important security configuration settings on Windows, Windows Server, and macOS. Microsoft introduced tamper protection in its enterprise endpoint security solution back in 2019. Currently, the feature…

Data Management as a Service (DMaaS) is an IT term used to describe cloud-based solutions for managing data from different sources on one central platform. The “as-a-service” component describes the pay-per-usage model that DMaaS platforms use. In this post, I will explain how Data Management as a Service works and why it can make sense…

The just-released Windows 11 2022 Update is bringing several new security features to the OS. The first major update for Windows 11 brings a new Smart App Control feature that lets users automatically block potentially dangerous apps from running on Windows 11 PCs. “This feature creates an AI model using intelligence, based on the 43…

Following months of testing with Windows Insiders, Microsoft has finally started rolling out the Windows 11 2022 Update to all customers worldwide. The first major update for Windows 11 brings several new accessibility, productivity, and meeting features, with more new experiences coming in a separate update next month. Windows Studio Effects First up, Microsoft has…

Microsoft has started rolling out the Windows 11 2022 Update today, which is also known as Windows 11 version 22H2. This is the first major Windows 11 release since the launch of the new operating system last year, and Microsoft will be taking a measured approach to offer the update via Windows Update to ensure…

Microsoft has launched its Defender for Endpoint solution on Android Enterprise (AE) company-owned personally enabled (COPE) devices. The company says that organizations can deploy this update with Microsoft Intune. Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is an enterprise endpoint security solution that helps to protect businesses from advanced threats. With this release, Android Enterprise COPE devices can…

Microsoft announced a major change to how it delivers new releases of SharePoint Server Subscription Edition. Indeed, Microsoft will now switch to a biannual release schedule that will allow the company to release new feature updates twice a year. Microsoft launched SharePoint Server Subscription Edition in July last year. It’s an on-premises version of SharePoint…

Microsoft Teams is getting a new schedule send feature that allows users to choose a specific time to send a chat message. The feature was spotted by Petri Jämsen, a Microsoft 365 consultant, and it’s rolling out gradually in public preview for the Teams desktop and web apps. First announced at Ignite 2021, the schedule…