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Microsoft has unveiled enhancements coming to the Learn platform during its Build 2022 developer conference. The Redmond giant is expanding its Microsoft Learn portfolio with a bunch of new and updated training and certifications for security experts and IT administrators. Microsoft Learn is a free online training platform that provides interactive and hands-on training sessions…

Microsoft has announced that it is rebranding its Power Apps portals as Power Pages. The company is also unveiled some new capabilities for its Power Platform that should help developers quickly build modern and secure solutions.  Microsoft Power Pages is a platform for creating, configuring, and publishing business-centric web pages & apps to engage clients…

Microsoft kicks off its Build 2022 developer conference today, and Microsoft’s Chief Product Officer Panos Panay announced several new features and developer-themed updates coming to Windows 11. Following some recent leaks, the company is finally planning to add support for third-party widgets to Windows 11 later this year. Currently, Windows 11 does not support third-party…

At its Build 2022 developer conference today, Microsoft announced new tools for developers to create collaboration solutions for Teams and Microsoft 365. The Redmond giant has also unveiled a new Live Share feature for Microsoft Teams apps.  Based on Fluid Framework, the new Live Share experience enables meeting attendees to create, edit, annotate, interact, zoom…

Security ranks pretty high on everyone’s lists nowadays and that’s definitely true for Amazon Web Services as well. Earlier this month, Amazon announced that Amazon EC2 instances now support both NitroTPM and UEFI Secure Boot. The announcement was originally made back in December during Amazon’s re:Invent 2021 event, where the company detailed new innovations coming…

Microsoft has announced some improvements coming to the preset security policies in Defender for Office 365 solution this summer. These policy changes should help IT admins use Microsoft’s recommended settings. According to Microsoft, the preset security policies enable organizations to apply all recommended settings to Office 365 users. The list includes Strict protection, Standard protection,…

In this article, we will review PowerShell For loops, While loops, Do-While loops, and Do-Until loops. I’ll explain how PowerShell loops are constructed and how to define conditions to enter or exit a loop, with special emphasis on the PowerShell while loop. . PowerShell For loop The For loop is а counting loop, and it’s…

Microsoft has published an advisory about a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) malware called XorDdos that is targeting Linux endpoints and servers. The company has warned that its security researchers have detected a 254 percent surge in the malware’s activity during the last six months. The security research group MalwareMustDie first discovered the XorDDoS malware back in…

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has warned US government agencies to immediately patch critical vulnerabilities in VMware products. The security authority instructed all federal agencies to remove the actively exploited VMware offerings from their networks if patches can’t be applied by May 23, 2022. VMware recently disclosed multiple security flaws in five different…

Microsoft released new out-of-band (OOB) updates yesterday to address Active Directory (AD) authentication problems caused by the May 2022 Patch Tuesday updates. These emergency patches also include a fix for the bug that previously prevented the installation of apps from the Microsoft Store. The May 2022 security updates that shipped earlier this month included fixes…

Microsoft has announced new initiatives to decrease the licensing costs and restrictions for small cloud vendors. The Redmond giant plans to make some changes to its restrictive cloud-licensing policies in response to complaints from rival European cloud vendors. Back in 2019, Microsoft changed the terms of its outsourcing license agreement that increased the cost of…

Microsoft has quietly updated the Windows Health Dashboard page to mention that Windows 11 is now ready for broad deployment in business environments. This essentially means that all Windows 10 users with PCs that meet the minimum requirements for Windows 11 should be able to install it via Windows Update (via Neowin). According to Microsoft,…