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PowerShell’s built-in exit keyword allows you to terminate scripts without closing your PowerShell session. There are different ways to use PowerShell exit to break the execution of a script, function, loop, or switch statement. But it’s important to understand how the exit keyword works if you want to use it effectively. In this guide, I…

Microsoft has announced the general availability of its Azure Fluid Relay service. It’s a managed cloud offering that enables web developers to use the Fluid Framework for building enterprise-grade collaborative applications. The Fluid Framework was announced at Microsoft’s Build developer conference back in 2019. It’s an open-source web-based platform that allows users to create discrete…

Windows PowerShell has a robust error handling capability with PowerShell try catch blocks. And PowerShell 7 introduced new features, making troubleshooting even easier. In this article, I will show you how to use PowerShell’s built-in error handling features to help debug your scripts when there are problems. Introduction to the PowerShell Try Catch Block Try…

For organizations looking to use Amazon Web Services to get highly available storage for their Windows applications with full Server Message Block (SMB) support, AWS FSx for Windows File Server is the platform’s native option. Typical use cases are client-mapped drives, file shares for application integrations, and user home directories. In this guide, we’ll go…

Microsoft has unveiled some security enhancements for the Smart App Control feature in Windows 11. David Weston, Microsoft’s VP for Enterprise and OS Security, announced yesterday that Smart App Control has been updated to support more malicious file types, including ISO and LNK files. Microsoft started testing the Smart App Control feature with Insiders in…

Back in May, Microsoft unveiled a new Defender Experts for Hunting solution to help organizations proactively hunt for security threats. The company has announced that the new managed security service is now generally available for enterprise customers. Microsoft Defender Experts for Hunting is aimed at companies with existing security operations centers. The service combines data…

VMware has released new security updates to address a critical authentication bypass vulnerability present in its multiple products. The company warned that the bug could enable threat actors to gain administrative privileges on target systems. Tracked as CVE-2022-31656, the flaw was discovered by the security researcher Petrus Viet. VMware assigned the authentication bypass vulnerability a…

Microsoft Teams for macOS is finally getting native support for Apple Silicon devices. The company has just announced that the new Teams app has started rolling out to all users with M1/M2-powered Macs. Microsoft highlights that a native version of Teams has been one of the highly requested features from Mac users on its feedback…

Microsoft is investigating a new issue that is causing the Outlook desktop app to crash when opening emails containing complicated tables such as Uber receipts. The bug was first identified in the Current Channel version 2206 (build 15330.20196 and higher), but it also impacts the preview builds in the Current Channel as well as the…

Ever found yourself wanting to learn more about Linux shell scripting, but you weren’t sure where to begin? Are you relatively new to the world of Unix-based operating systems and want to extend your skills to do some basic shell programming? This tutorial for beginners will go over the basics of Linux shell scripting with…

Microsoft has announced two new security services to enhance the threat intelligence capabilities of its Microsoft Defender platform. The new Defender Threat Intelligence and Defender External Attack Surface Management tools are a result of Microsoft’s acquisition of the cybersecurity company RiskIQ in July 2021. First up, the Microsoft Defender Threat Intelligence (MDTI) service provides enterprise…

Grep (Global Regular Expression Print) is a commonly used Linux command for searching strings of characters in text files. There’s is no such thing as PowerShell grep. But naturally, you can get the same functionality in PowerShell. You’ll just need to use the Select-String cmdlet instead. In this article, I’ll show you how to get…