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Microsoft is finally getting ready to deprecate the SMB1 (Server Message Block version 1) file-sharing protocol on Windows PCs. Indeed, the company has announced that SMB1 is now disabled by default in the latest Windows 11 Home Dev Channel builds. SMB1 is an outdated file and resource sharing protocol that allows users to communicate with…

Microsoft announced a significant revamp of its Azure Purview data-governance platform. The Redmond giant is rebranding the service as “Microsoft Purview” and also rolling out new Microsoft 365 compliance capabilities to the suite. The new Microsoft Purview suite provides customers with compliance tools that allow them to view all their data assets in one place….

Last year, Microsoft unveiled its plans to create a fully-managed version of Grafana that runs natively on its Azure cloud platform. Now, the Redmond giant has announced that the new Azure Managed Grafana service is now available in public preview. Grafana is basically an open-source platform that enables organizations to visualize multiple types of reliability…

Microsoft has announced a new data protection feature for its SQL Server tool. The new capability enables organizations to classify and protect SQL Server data with Microsoft Information Protection (MIP) sensitivity labels. If you’re unfamiliar, Microsoft Information Protection is a unified solution that enables customers to discover, classify, and protect data based on its sensitivity…

Microsoft Teams has become an essential communication and collaboration tool for many organizations. However, a powerful tool like this can become a nightmare for IT administrators if team creation is uncontrolled. We still want our end-users to be able to create their own space for working so they can remain productive, though. That’s why it’s…

Microsoft has announced that the Windows 10 November 2021 Update (21H2), which began rolling out on November 16 last year, is finally ready for broad deployment. The news was quietly published on the Windows 10 Health Dashboard last week (via Bleeping Computer), and it indicates that all Windows 10 PCs running older versions of the…

Microsoft has announced the public preview of dynamic administrative units with Azure Active Directory (Azure AD). The new feature lets organizations configure rules for adding or deleting users and devices in administrative units (AUs). Azure AD administrative units launched in public preview back in 2020. The feature lets enterprise admins logically divide Azure AD into…

Microsoft is planning to make some changes to the way it licenses its products to customers who wish to use them on rival cloud platforms. According to a new report from Bloomberg, several customers have filed complaints against Microsoft’s policies regarding running Windows and Office on other cloud-computing services such as Google Cloud Platform or…

This week in IT, April Patch Tuesday updates fix 119 vulnerabilities, Windows 10 Search Highlights hits general availability, Atlassian Jira/Confluence outage set to last for another two weeks, Microsoft to bring privileged access management to Windows via Endpoint Manager, and critics say Windows cloud licensing is anticompetitive. About This Week in IT This week in…

Microsoft has released updated guidance to help enterprise customers protect domain controllers (DCs) against cyber attacks. The company urges IT admins to deploy Azure Active Directory (AAD) in their organizations to prevent security breaches. For those unfamiliar, a domain controller is a type of server that responds to security authentication requests from network endpoints (such…

Installing Active Directory domain controllers in a virtual machine (VM) can be useful if you want to separate them from the physical network, giving you more flexibility and additional protection for your Active Directory infrastructure. In this guide, we’re going to detail the best practices for installing Active Directory domain controllers (DCs) in a virtual…

A OneDrive synchronization issue can cause a user to experience data loss. Learn how to reset OneDrive synchronization here. The symptoms of OneDrive sync issues When OneDrive is running and working as expected, it is a boon for users to keep their content synchronized and always up-to-date on all their devices. However, like with many…