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In this article, we’ll explain the basics of networking, networking architecture, networking types, and networking security. We’ll also detail what is TCP, subnetting, and all other core networking technologies you should know about. Sharing data and resources between individuals, and across industries and countries, is a significant part of daily life. Establishing a computer network provides…

Microsoft is once again notifying customers that it will finally disable basic authentication support in Exchange Online starting October 1, 2022. The company is also giving organizations an option to pause the deprecation of select email connection protocols until the end of this year. In 2019, Microsoft first announced its plans to retire basic authentication…

September is shaping up to be a month of working smarter and not harder. This month, Microsoft introduced their collaboration applications into model-driven Power Apps as well as inline (bulk) editing. SharePoint Syntex is also utilizing Power Automate to populate Microsoft Word templates, and Power Apps’ error handling is now a developer’s dream come true….

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced the launch of a new data center in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Over the next 15 years, the company plans to invest around $5 billion in the country to support business growth and accelerate innovation. AWS opened its first Middle East cloud region in Bahrain in July 2019….

Microsoft’s Azure Managed Grafana service that launched in preview back in April is now generally available for enterprise customers. The new data visualization solution brings together charts, alerts, and logs that enable IT admins to analyze application and infrastructure telemetry data in a single dashboard. Grafana is an open-source platform that lets organizations unify, collect,…

Microsoft has acknowledged that customers may experience domain name system (DNS) issues while accessing some Azure cloud services. The company confirmed that the problem is specifically affecting users running Canonical Ubuntu 18.04 on Azure virtual machines (VMs). According to Microsoft, the Azure outage started at around 2 AM ET on August 30. It impacted several…

Microsoft Teams is getting a new update that will enable IT admins to deploy and manage teams at scale. Microsoft has announced in a message on the Microsoft 365 admin center that administrators will be able to create up to 500 teams with built-in or custom templates via Teams PowerShell cmdlet. Specifically, Microsoft Teams will…

Microsoft launched a preview of Arm support on Azure virtual machines (VMs) in April this year. Now, the company has announced that the Ampere Altra Arm-powered Azure VMs would become generally available on September 1. Microsoft claims that the Arm-based virtual machines deliver up to 50 percent better performance than similar instances running on x86…

In this article, we’ll explain how to install Grammarly for Word and Outlook and why it can be a great writing assistant for both students and professional writers. Grammarly is a popular AI-powered writing assistant that allows users to check spelling, punctuation, grammar, clarity, and writing style in their documents. How to install Grammarly for…

Microsoft has started rolling out a new update for Outlook for Windows. The latest release brings a new integration with the Microsoft To Do service, allowing users to access their tasks and lists right from their Outlook app. Microsoft To Do is a cloud-based task management service that lets users stay organized and manage their…

In this guide, we’ll explain how to create and connect to an AWS RDS MySQL database. Amazon RDS is a service that lets you easily set up and configure relationship databases with various types of database instances in the Amazon Web Services cloud. With Amazon’s relational database service, you don’t have to manage databases on-premises….

Microsoft has announced some important changes to its restrictive software licensing policies that should reduce the price of running Microsoft software on non-Azure clouds. The new licensing terms, which will go into effect on October 1, 2022, aim to address complaints from rival European cloud providers about Microsoft’s anti-competitive tactics. “We recognize the importance of…