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Microsoft has announced Ephemeral OS disk support for Azure confidential virtual machines (VMs). The new feature enables organizations to use Azure hardware-based trusted execution environments (TEEs) in order to protect sensitive data while is being processed from unauthorized access. Azure confidential computing was first announced at Microsoft’s Ignite conference in 2017. These confidential VMs are…

In this post, I’ll detail five essential principles for successful cloud adoption. Note that while I am biased towards Microsoft Azure, these essentials are the same for cloud projects targeting Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, and so on. Cloud adoption experience I have had the opportunity to work with public and private sector clients…

Back in May, the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) temporarily removed a Windows flaw from its Known Exploited Vulnerability (KEV) Catalog due to Active Directory (AD) certificate authentication issues. CISA has now re-added the security vulnerability to KEV, and it’s encouraging IT admins to patch it by deploying the June Patch Tuesday updates by…

There have been many exciting updates for Microsoft’s Power Platform last month, including a new look for model-driven apps, new metrics in Power BI, as well as Search and Find and Replace capabilities coming to Power Apps. On the connectors front, Microsoft also added introduced 13 new connectors and updated 14 existing ones. Let’s dive…

Microsoft has announced the release of a new Admin App for Microsoft Teams. The app provides a central hub that makes it easier for Teams admins to access settings and perform key management tasks across Microsoft 365 and Teams. Specifically, the new Admin app enables Teams admins to optimize Microsoft Teams meetings, webinars, messages, and…

Microsoft has released a new mobile network protection feature for its Microsoft Defender for Endpoint (MDE) solution. The new capability helps organizations protect Android and iOS devices against security threats originating from wireless connections. The mobile network protection feature is designed to offer protection against malicious attacks and bogus certificates targeting Wi-Fi networks in enterprise…

Azure Stack HCI is Microsoft’s hyper-converged infrastructure cluster solution for hosting virtualized Windows and Linux workloads. In this guide, we’ll tell you everything you need to know about the network components and hardware required to run virtualized workloads on-premises with Azure Stack HCI. How to select the correct network components for Azure Stack HCI Before…

This month, there was a lot of activity for Windows Insiders, Internet Explorer was finally retired, and could Microsoft be preparing to release another version of Windows 10 this fall? Internet Explorer retired It shouldn’t have come as a shock to anyone but after more than 25 years, Internet Explorer (IE) was officially retired on…

Microsoft is getting ready to launch a new Outlook Lite app for Android. The software giant announced the new version of Outlook on the Microsoft 365 roadmap yesterday, and it is expected to become generally available worldwide later this month. Microsoft says that Outlook Lite should bring performance improvements for Android devices as compared to…

Security vendor Kaspersky has warned about a new malware that allows attackers to backdoor Microsoft Exchange servers. Dubbed SessionManager, the malicious tool has been used for the past 15 months to target NGOs, government agencies, military as well as industrial organizations across Europe, South America, Asia, and Africa. As reported by the Kaspersky researchers, the…

Broadcom announced that it was planning to acquire VMware in May. And since then, it has laid out its plans for the company. But can Broadcom be trusted considering its history of killing off companies that it’s purchased in the past? And could the EU save VMware from an uncertain fate? Let’s dig deeper. About…

Microsoft’s Office 365 Quarantine is a new service designed to keep organizations safer by moving all suspicious messages to a secure location. In this guide, we’ll explain how Office 365 Quarantine works and how IT admins can use it to protect users in an organization from malicious files and messages. What is Office 365 Quarantine?…