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Back in February, Microsoft announced that it would begin blocking Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) macros by default in its Office apps. The company started rolling out this change to Office Insiders in April before pausing it to incorporate user feedback. In a recent update to the Microsoft 365 message center, Microsoft notified IT admins…

VB.NET is a Windows-only technology. So, moving these applications to other platforms can be difficult. But Amazon has come to the rescue with its new AWS Porting Assistant. Over the years a lot of businesses have developed all sorts of applications in VB.NET. And today, many of them are looking for ways to modernize these…

Microsoft has announced its plans to retire the built-in Windows Information Protection (WIP) feature in its client operating system. The software giant has decided to sunset the data leak prevention capability in favor of its paid subscription service, Microsoft Purview. Windows Information Protection (previously known as enterprise data protection (EDP) is a useful feature that…

SQL Server is Microsoft’s premier enterprise database platform. But in today’s world of rapid-fire releases and continuous updates, the new SQL Server 2022 release seems like it has been a long time in coming. But it includes some great new features. SQL Server 2019 was the last major release of SQL Server. With every release,…

Microsoft is apparently scrapping next year’s big update for Windows 11. And instead, aiming for a major update in 2024. Which will be 3 years after Windows 11 first launched. So, why the change of plans and what can we expect to see in Microsoft’s next big Windows release? Windows 12 due in 2024? What…

Microsoft has unveiled a new security feature that is set to arrive in Windows 11 later this year. David Weston, Microsoft’s VP for Enterprise and OS Security, announced on Twitter that the Windows 11 Insider build 22528.1000 brings a new default setting to protect users against brute force attacks. For those unfamiliar, a brute force…

Atlassian has disclosed a new critical flaw in its Confluence Server and Data Center products. The company explained in its security advisory that the vulnerability (CVE-2022-26138) lets unauthorized users use hardcoded credentials to get full access to Confluence. According to Atlassian, the flaw exists in its Questions for Confluence app. It is designed to help…

Microsoft has teamed up with Oracle to launch a new service called “Oracle Database Service for Azure.” The latest offering provides Microsoft Azure customers access to databases running in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). Microsoft explained that enterprise customers can now provision and manage Oracle-hosted database services directly within the Azure cloud dashboard. The service lets…

Microsoft has launched a new Update Management Center (UMS) in public preview. The new service is designed to make it easier for IT admins to manage updates for all Azure and Linux machines on Azure and Azure Arc-enabled servers. Essentially, Update Management Center is the latest iteration of Microsoft’s Azure Automation Update Management solution. For…

Microsoft has released the optional July 2022 non-security patch (KB5015879) for Windows Server 2022. This optional update reduces resource contention in scenarios that require high input/output operations per second (IOPS). The latest Windows Server 2022 optional patch addresses a bug that was previously causing Windows to freeze due to Windows Defender Application Control. This update…

Icacls is a Windows command-line utility that IT admins can use to change access control lists on files and folders. One of the most common tasks that an IT Pro or system administrator performs is modifying permission on a file server. Using the icacls command is a very efficient way to do that, and we’ll…

Microsoft is launching today Microsoft Cloud for Sovereignty, a new cloud offering for the government sector. The new cloud solution is meant to help government and public sector customers build, move, and operate sensitive data and workloads in the cloud while supporting the highest security and compliance standards. A sovereign cloud is a cloud infrastructure…