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How to Select Hardware for Azure Local (Azure Stack HCI)

Last Update: Jul 02, 2025

Azure Stack HCI is Microsoft’s hyper-converged infrastructure cluster solution for hosting virtualized Windows and Linux workloads. In this guide, we’ll tell you everything you need to know about the network components and hardware required to run virtualized workloads on-premises with Azure Stack HCI. How to select the correct network components for Azure Stack HCI Before…

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What’s New with Windows – June 2022

This month, there was a lot of activity for Windows Insiders, Internet Explorer was finally retired, and could Microsoft be preparing to release another version of Windows 10 this fall? Internet Explorer retired It shouldn’t have come as a shock to anyone but after more than 25 years, Internet Explorer (IE) was officially retired on…

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Microsoft 365 Apps

Microsoft to Launch a Faster Outlook Lite App for Android Users

Microsoft is getting ready to launch a new Outlook Lite app for Android. The software giant announced the new version of Outlook on the Microsoft 365 roadmap yesterday, and it is expected to become generally available worldwide later this month. Microsoft says that Outlook Lite should bring performance improvements for Android devices as compared to…

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Security

Kaspersky Discloses New ‘SessionManager’ Backdoor Targetting Microsoft Exchange Servers

Last Update: Jul 29, 2025

Security vendor Kaspersky has warned about a new malware that allows attackers to backdoor Microsoft Exchange servers. Dubbed SessionManager, the malicious tool has been used for the past 15 months to target NGOs, government agencies, military as well as industrial organizations across Europe, South America, Asia, and Africa. As reported by the Kaspersky researchers, the…

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This Week in IT ep25

Is VMware Doomed After Broadcom’s $61B Takeover Bid?

Broadcom announced that it was planning to acquire VMware in May. And since then, it has laid out its plans for the company. But can Broadcom be trusted considering its history of killing off companies that it’s purchased in the past? And could the EU save VMware from an uncertain fate? Let’s dig deeper. About…

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Microsoft 365 Apps

Understanding Office 365 Quarantine

Last Update: Jul 24, 2023

Microsoft’s Office 365 Quarantine is a new service designed to keep organizations safer by moving all suspicious messages to a secure location. In this guide, we’ll explain how Office 365 Quarantine works and how IT admins can use it to protect users in an organization from malicious files and messages. What is Office 365 Quarantine?…

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Microsoft Teams

What’s New in Microsoft Teams – June 2022

Microsoft has published a roundup of all the new features and enhancements rolled out to Microsoft Teams in the month of June. The company has made a couple of notable changes, such as new Teams chat integration with Dynamics 365, chat bubbles support on mobile, new policies for IT admins, and so much more. Live…

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Microsoft 365 Apps

Microsoft Office App for Android Gets New Quick Access Filters

Microsoft has started rolling out a new Quick Access filters experience in its unified Office app for Android. The feature helps users to increase their productivity by making it easier to locate files, images, videos, and other content. “With Quick Access, you can utilize multiple filters to view different content types. Content-usage filters, such as,…

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Security

Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management Adds New CVE Reporting Feature

Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management is getting a new update that allows IT Pros to gain insights about vulnerable software and devices. The new CVE reporting feature is currently available in public preview for all commercial customers. For those unfamiliar, Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) is a database of publicly disclosed software vulnerabilities. The Microsoft Defender…

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Office 365

Microsoft Delays End of Auto-Renewals of Legacy CSP Subscriptions

Microsoft has indefinitely delayed its plans to block auto-renewals of monthly subscriptions that are currently sold by Cloud Solution Providers (CSPs). CSPs are partners that can directly provision, manage, and support customer subscriptions for Microsoft products. The software giant had planned to begin blocking automatic monthly renewals for older accounts on July 11. It planned…

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Network Security

Microsoft Releases Patches to Address Azure FabricScape Flaw Affecting Linux Workloads

Last Update: Sep 09, 2022

Microsoft has patched a critical in Azure Service Fabric dubbed “FabricScape” that affects containerized workloads on Linux. The software giant urges customers to upgrade their clusters as soon as possible to prevent successful exploits. Azure Service Fabric is basically a distributed systems platform that allows developers to build and host microservices-based cloud apps. It powers…

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Google Cloud

Google Creates New Division to Accelerate Public Cloud Adoption

Google is creating a new division that will focus on helping US public sector organizations to accelerate the adoption of Google Cloud technologies. The company says that Google Public Sector caters to the growing needs of federal, state, and local governments, as well as educational institutions. This new Google Public Sector division specifically aims to…

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