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Depending on what part of the country you’re in, coping with power outages and having backup power may or may not play a big part in your disaster recovery plans. While it’s often overlooked, power is the one thing that all computing activities require, whether it is desktops, datacenters, or cloud computing. Backup power supplies…

Azure Bastion native client support provides a secure way to log into Windows and Linux virtual machines (VMs) using the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) or Secure Shell (SSH). There’s no need to expose the VMs to the Internet, or even to your network. That means you can “air gap” the virtual machines to prevent zero-day…

Microsoft has announced that it’s bringing support for Apple M1/M2 processors in its Microsoft Teams app for macOS. The company recently updated its Microsoft 365 roadmap to indicate that the new Teams version is expected to be generally available in September. Currently, the Microsoft Teams desktop app runs as an Intel application on Apple Silicon…

Microsoft has recently announced some important updates for Azure AD Connect Group Writeback. This release enables organizations to write back Microsoft 365 groups (assigned & dynamic) to their on-premises Active Directory as a security group, mail-enabled security group, or distribution list. For those unfamiliar, Group Writeback is a useful tool that enables IT Pros to…

Microsoft has released server protection capabilities for its Defender for Business solution. The new security feature is available in preview for small and medium businesses (SMBs) and supports both Windows and Linux servers. Microsoft Defender for Business is a new endpoint security offering designed especially for businesses with up to 300 employees. It provides attack…

Google Cloud today announced Tau T2A, its first virtual machines (VMs) based on the Arm architecture. The company has also unveiled a fully-managed job scheduling service dubbed Google Cloud Batch. In a press release, Google explained that the latest Tau T2A virtual machines are powered by Ampere Altra Arm-based processors. The VMs comes in various…

Microsoft released the July 2022 Patch Tuesday updates yesterday for all supported versions of Windows. Even though you may want to lay back and relax during the summer, Microsoft fixed no less than 84 vulnerabilities this month, so you may not want to skip the company’s latest patches.   Critical Windows vulnerabilities in July Patch…

Microsoft has discovered a new massive AiTM phishing campaign that can steal credentials even if the user account is protected with multi-factor authentication (MFA). The company has warned that the threat actors have targeted over 10,000 organizations since September 2021. According to Microsoft researchers, the AiTM campaign involves inserting a proxy server between a target…

Microsoft is preparing to drop support for its Microsoft 365 apps on some older versions of Windows next year. The software giant has announced that Microsoft 365 apps will no longer support Windows 7, Windows 8.1, and Windows Server 2008 R2 after January 10, 2023. The recent blog post follows Microsoft’s previous announcement made last…

In the past few months, Azure Stack HCI pricing has been a hot topic in discussions with customers. Including the possibility of using Azure Stack HCI as a pay-as-you-go full OPEX solution. That’s an interrogation you may have had as well if you’ve ever worked with Azure Stack Edge, which is a hardware solution provided…

Microsoft has announced the general availability of new enterprise IoT security capabilities in its Defender for IoT solution. The company says that these features should help businesses better secure their unmanaged IoT devices connected to enterprise networks. Microsoft Defender for IoT (Formerly known as Azure Defender for IoT) is a security offering that protects enterprise…

Microsoft has launched a new Health dashboard in public preview for small or medium-sized organizations. The software giant says that the dashboard is designed to provide IT Pros a complete view of the health status of Microsoft 365 apps and services. The Microsoft 365 Health dashboard lets customers view insights about the service status, software…