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Amazon has announced the launch of a new AWS region in Hyderabad, India. The company says the new infrastructure region will help to drive digital transformation with approximately $4.4 billion investment in the South Asian market by 2030. Specifically, AWS first started working on this new cloud region Hyderabad region in late 2020. The company…

Microsoft has introduced several new removable storage management features in Defender for Endpoint (MDE). The latest release makes it easier for organizations to protect removable storage devices on Windows PCs. More specifically, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint helps IT admins to control how employees read, write, and execute specific files on removable storage. For instance, it’s…

Microsoft has announced that Windows 10 version 22H2 is now ready for broad deployment in business environments. The company has quietly updated the Windows Health Dashboard to indicate that all Windows 10 users checking for updates should be able to find and install this version on their machines. “The Windows 10, version 22H2 feature update…

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 – Season 3 Launch Show With Femke Cornelissen After a bit of a break, this week marks the launch…

Microsoft Teams has recently introduced a new accessibility feature called “sign language view.” This release enables participants who are deaf or hard of hearing and their interpreters to prioritize each other during video calls and meetings. Up until now, Microsoft Teams’ organizers had to manually pin interpreters and enable live captions for each meeting. The…

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…