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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…

Windows Autopatch, an enterprise service that launched in public preview back in May, is now generally available for customers with Windows Enterprise E3 and E5 licenses. Microsoft’s new managed service enables IT Pros to automate the planning and deployment of Windows and Office updates. Essentially, Windows Autopatch uses deployment tools such as Windows Update for…

This past July 6, 2022, Amazon announced the release of two new technologies that enable the streamlined deployment of .NET applications on Amazon Web Services. The new AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio as well as the new AWS Deploy Tool for the .NET CLI enable you to get your .NET application up and running in…

Microsoft Teams is getting an update that will automatically end stale meetings. The new feature will prompt users to end the meeting 10 minutes after it has reached the scheduled end time, and only one participant is left. Currently, Microsoft Teams meetings don’t end until the last attendee leaves the meeting or the presenter clicks…

Microsoft has recently released a new update (version 1.69) for Visual Studio Code. The big highlight of this release is a private preview of the Visual Studio Code Server, a backend service that lets developers securely connect to the editor via a web browser. The CLI of the VS Code Server creates a tunnel between…

Microsoft is investigating a new Windows 11 bug that is currently preventing the Outlook desktop app from displaying recent emails in the search results. The software giant has confirmed in a support document that the problem impacts Windows 11 users with IMAP, POP as well as offline Exchange accounts. “This problem mostly affects users with…

In this guide, we’ll explain how to install Git on Ubuntu 20.04 step by step so that you can manage your repositories quickly and easily from the command line! You can then go on to learn the Git commands, which will allow you to automate common tasks, like the ability to create, check out, and merge…

Microsoft has announced that its Entra Permissions Management solution is now generally available for enterprise customers. It’s a cloud-based infrastructure entitlement management (CIEM) service that provides insights into permissions for all user and workload identities in multi-cloud environments. Microsoft Entra Permissions Management (formerly known as Cloud Knox Security) launched in public preview back in February….

Microsoft recently announced a new Teams app called Admin, which brings a subset of the most commonly accessed admin settings to Teams in the form of a convenient app! So, let’s take a look! About This Week in IT This week in IT is a weekly podcast hosted by Petri’s Editorial Director Russell Smith. Each…

Microsoft has released version 4.5.0 of the Teams PowerShell module. This update doesn’t bring any big changes but it includes a set of bug fixes and enhancements for IT administrators. The Microsoft Teams PowerShell module was released in April 2019. It allows IT admins to manage users, Teams, policies, and configuration through PowerShell. For instance,…

Microsoft is set to backtrack on its decision to block Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) macros by default across all currently-supported Office apps. Indeed, the software giant has announced in the Microsoft 365 Admin Center that it is rolling back this change based on user feedback. Back in February, Microsoft unveiled its plans to turn…