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Earlier this month, we reported that Microsoft Teams is adding a new feature in Together Mode to let meeting organizers assign seats to all participants. The company announced yesterday that this update is now available in public preview in the Teams desktop app for macOS and Windows users. Microsoft introduced the Together mode feature in…

Microsoft has released the Windows 11 preview build 25169 for Insiders in the Dev channel. The latest update brings two notable features including a new multi-app kiosk mode for IT administrators as well as improvements to Windows Spotlight. First up, Microsoft is introducing a new kiosk mode on Windows 11 that enables IT Pros to…

Windows Autopilot is a new Microsoft tool that IT pros can use to pre-configure, reset, or repurpose Windows devices. It’s a great tool to automate the process of deploying Windows devices in an organization. In this Windows Autopilot deployment step-by-step guide, we’ll explain how to get started with Windows Autopilot and set up new devices…

Amazon has released new security updates for its Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) and Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) services. First of all, Amazon GuardDuty is getting new malware protection capabilities to detect malicious files stored on container workloads or customer instances running on Amazon EC2. For those unfamiliar, Amazon GuardDuty is a managed cloud…

One of the features that both makes PowerShell so easy to use yet sometimes difficult to learn is its focus on objects. I have taught PowerShell objects to many people over the last 10 years and this is not as difficult as people make it out to be. That is to say, I think many…

Microsoft announced the public preview of Azure Active Directory Certificate-Based Authentication (CBA) back in February. Now, the software giant has released some enhancements for the new service based on customer feedback. Certificate-based authentication (CBA) is a robust service that lets organizations validate a user’s identity with X.509 certificates against Azure Active Directory (Azure AD). It…

Microsoft has published a security advisory about a new wave of malware attacks that target Exchange Servers. The company has warned IT admins that threat actors are increasingly using malicious Internet Information Services (IIS) modules to install backdoors and steal credentials. For those unfamiliar, Internet Information Services (IIS) is a web server that lets developers…

Because Microsoft announced its quarterly and annual earnings this week, I’m back with a new edition of Short Takes that looks exclusively at the results across all of the software giant’s major business units.

Microsoft has launched a new Unified Update Platform (UUP) that brings on-premises update management capabilities for commercial customers. UUP on premises is designed to streamline Windows 11 upgrades for organizations that manage employee devices with management tools such as WSUS and Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager. The Redmond giant first started testing the Unified Update Platform…

The “trust relationship between this workstation and the primary domain failed” error means that the computer cannot access a network because it is offline, or that it has lost its membership to the Active Directory (AD) domain. This guide will help you understand what’s happening behind the scenes when this error occurs, and we’ll go…

Apple has released a new update that brings a much-anticipated feature for its iCloud app on Windows. First spotted by a Reddit user, the latest version of the app now lets users generate two-factor authentication codes. Two-factor authentication (2FA) is a security method that adds an extra layer of protection while logging into apps or…

Microsoft has acknowledged a new issue that is currently preventing users from opening the Start menu on some Windows 11 PCs. The company has notified that it applied the Known Issue Rollback mechanism to address the problem. For those unfamiliar, the Known Issue Rollback capability allows users to quietly roll back buggy non-security fixes delivered…