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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…

Microsoft has shared some important details about the evolution of a malware called “UpdateAgent” that started targeting Mac devices in 2020. Yesterday, Microsoft’s threat intelligence team warned users that the new variants of this trojan have become more sophisticated, and they are currently installing adware payloads on infected Mac machines. The UpdateAgent malware was first…

Microsoft Sentinel, the company’s security information and event management (SIEM) platform is getting a new GitHub integration. The new solution has been designed to help organizations continuously monitor GitHub developer repositories for potentially malicious events. For those unfamiliar with Microsoft Sentinel, it’s a scalable cloud-native SIEM service that uses Artificial Intelligence to analyze huge volumes…

Earlier this week, Microsoft released a new update (version 2201) for Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager users enrolled in the technical preview branch. Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager is a free on-premise solution that allows IT Admins to manage PCs and servers across the network. First of all, Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager has made it easier for…

Microsoft has unveiled some important updates for its Teams collaboration service. The company has announced that Microsoft Teams public preview users can now test new chat and meeting features, including support for Compact mode, meeting co-organizers, and more. First up, Microsoft Teams has added a new Compact mode option that allows users to fit 50…

Many of us have witnessed how easy it is for the boundary between work and life to blur over the past year. As our lives become increasingly connected, we make sense of an enormous amount of information while multiple tasks and deliverables require our attention. As more people work remotely, it is harder to figure…