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Microsoft is working on some important updates for its Teams collaboration service. The Redmond giant is planning to release a new LinkedIn integration for one-on-one chats in Microsoft Teams that should make it easier for users to learn more about their coworkers. More specifically, Microsoft Teams will add a new LinkedIn tab to the 1:1…

Managing Microsoft Teams if you’re an IT Pro can often be a complicated process that requires multiple services to be combined. When provisioning a team, services such as Azure Active Directory (AAD), SharePoint Online, and Exchange Online connect to the core plumbing. It means that for you as an IT administrator, you need to connect…

Microsoft has released out-of-band (OOB) updates for several Windows Server configurations to fix an Active Directory issue related to Microsoft .NET Framework. The company explained on the Windows health dashboard that the bug surfaced following the release of January 2022 Patch Tuesday updates (via Bleeping Computer).  “After installing updates released January 11, 2022 or later,…

Microsoft has warned users about a new multi-phase campaign targeting enterprise customers. The Microsoft 365 Defender Threat Intelligence Team detailed its findings on its Security blog, which indicates that these phishing attacks mainly target organizations that haven’t enabled multi-factor authentication (MFA). As the name suggests, multi-factor authentication (MFA) is an authentication technique that requires two…

Earlier this week, Amazon announced some important compliance updates for Amazon FSx for Windows File Server. The company says that its popular cloud file storage service is finally FedRAMP compliant. Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program For those unfamiliar, FedRAMP (Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program) is a US government program that helps to standardize…

Cloud Conversations is a weekly podcast that we’ll be featuring here on Petri. It’s about everything connected to cloud computing, including technologies like Azure, Microsoft 365, Power Platform, Microsoft Endpoint Manager (MEM), Microsoft Defender, Windows, Intune, and much more! Cloud Conversations – Azure AD SC-300 Exam – Are Microsoft Exams Worth It? In this week’s…

This Week in IT – Microsoft Lists is Coming to Everyone But Who Knows What It Is For? This week in IT is a weekly podcast hosted by Petri’s Editorial Director Russell Smith. Each week, Russell rounds up the most important stories for IT pros in a short 5-minute video.

Microsoft has announced new security capabilities for Exchange Online customers. The company has finally added support for SMTP MTA Strict Transport Security (MTA-STS) to its Exchange Online service that will use Transport Layer Security (TLS) encryption to secure emails and prevent man-in-the-middle or downgrade attacks. As a reminder, Microsoft unveiled its plans to launch MTA-STS…

The big news this month is the release of the next Release Wave Plan. As if we were all excited enough about Power Platform, this is over 100 pages of excitement for your bedtime reading pleasure. It isn’t quite a page turner but, still good to be in the know. Those highlights dominate this article….

Amazon started off this new year with one pretty big change for Amazon Web Services (AWS). They updated the AWS Management Console. The AWS Management Console is probably the most frequently used AWS tool. The AWS Management Console is a web application that enables you to access and mange AWS resources. Until this past update…

  This article is a step-by-step guide that will show you how to ensure that everyone in your Microsoft Teams organization has access to Teams using the machine-wide installer. What is the Microsoft Teams machine-wide installer, and do I need it? The Microsoft Teams machine-wide installer is an MSI-based installation method for Teams. It allows…

Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) allows EC2 instances, AWS Lambda functions and containers to share access to a fully-managed, high performance and highly available file system. Amazon EFS delivers low-latency performance for a wide variety of workloads and can scale to thousands of concurrent clients or connections. EFS can scale automatically and you only pay for…