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Microsoft unveiled a new Outlook for Mac experience with significant performance and reliability improvements back in 2019. The company has been testing the new Outlook for Mac design with Office Insiders in the Beta and Preview channels, and it’s now ready to roll out to all users next month. With this release, the new Outlook…

Domain controllers (DCs) are at the heart of Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS), the directory service that provides authentication, authorization, and password management for Microsoft Windows networks. Find out here why they’re so important and what they do. What does a domain controller do? A domain controller (DC) is a server on your network that manages access for users, computers, servers, etc. centrally. It uses…

Microsoft is getting ready to roll out a big update to Windows 11 users next month, which should bring improvements to the taskbar, new Notepad and Media Player apps as well as a public preview of Android apps. First of all, Microsoft has collaborated with Amazon and Intel to launch a public preview of Android…

Microsoft has released new optional updates for Windows 11 and Windows 10 version 20H2 and newer. The latest Windows 11 optional update (KB5008353) includes several fixes for issues affecting audio devices, multi-monitor setups, auto-brightness as well as app icons in the taskbar. This Windows 11 KB5008353 patch addresses a known issue preventing some image editing…

PDQ has announced today the acquisition of SmartDeploy, a Seattle-based provider of modern endpoint management solutions. The company plans to leverage SmartDeploy’s technology to improve its value proposition by providing seamless endpoint management solutions for IT professionals. “We’re fortunate to team up with SmartDeploy,” explained Jaren Nichols, CRO of PDQ.com. “Our customers passionately endorse SmartDeploy’s…

Making sure your business is in compliance with the various regulatory policies that you need to work with can be challenging. Many companies use Microsoft 365 to work with unstructured personal data that are covered by laws that require your organization to follow different compliance procedures. This includes responding to regulatory requirements, assessing compliance risks,…

Microsoft has addressed a known issue that was breaking the Outlook search functionality on Windows 10. The company announced on its Windows Health Dashboard that the problem has been resolved via the Known Issue Rollback (KIR) feature on Windows 10 versions 21H1, 21H2, 20H2, and 1809. Known Issue Rollback is a capability that enables Microsoft…

Microsoft has released a list of twenty-five legacy group policies that should be disabled on Windows 10 and Windows 11. The company is urging IT Admins to stop using these group policies in order to improve overall performance on Windows PCs. The Redmond giant officially launched Windows 10 version 1511 back in 2015. The company…

A lot of businesses are in the process of modernizing their applications as a part of their digital transformation strategies and the adoption of Kubernetes is a big part of this trend. As businesses have begun migrating toward containers and micros-service type applications, Kubernetes has been quickly becoming the defacto standard for container management and…

In this week’s edition of This Week in IT, Microsoft issues updates to fix last week’s update. Microsoft is finally adding the ability to mute notifications during Microsoft Teams meetings, and Windows 10 and Windows 11 Group Policy ADMX templates no longer play nice with each other. This Week in IT – Windows Group Policy…

Microsoft announced today that it has started pushing Windows 10 21H2 (the November 2021 update) to users running version 20H2. The company plans to use its machine learning model to automatically target eligible devices that are approaching the end of servicing soon, and this approach should help to ensure a smooth update process. “Windows 10,…

Microsoft unveiled its plans to disable Excel 4.0 XLM macros by default back in October 2021. The company has now announced that this application policy change is now rolling out to all Microsoft 365 tenants and it aims to protect customers from malicious documents. For those unfamiliar with Excel 4.0 macros (XLM), this is a…