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Happy New Year and warm wishes to everyone as we move into 2022 together. Microsoft continues to spoil us with continued updates to the platform as we look to hold true to our New Year’s Resolutions. Say no to spreadsheets. (No excel as a data source) Release wave 2 for Power Platform is wrapping up…

It was a quiet month, as expected. But there were a few significant announcements. Most notably for enterprise IT, Microsoft Edge Cloud Site List Management is now generally available, and Microsoft is bringing some basic customization options to the Windows 11 Start menu. Microsoft Edge Cloud Site List Management now available First available in public…

Microsoft unveiled a slew of new consumer and enterprise-focused products and services in 2021. It’s been a big year for the company with the most significant announcements such as Windows 11, Teams 2.0, a new Visio web app, and an affordable Windows on Arm development kit. Here’s a look at everything you need to know….

Microsoft has released an official fix for the “Y2K22” bug that was previously preventing on-premise Exchange servers from sending emails. This issue started at midnight on January 1st, 2022, and it was causing emails to get stuck in transport queues due to a date check failure in the FIP-FS anti-malware scanning engine. The Microsoft Exchange Y2K22…

Google has started sending out emails recommending users install the Microsoft Teams update as soon as possible to fix a bug that was preventing some Android devices from making emergency calls. The company previously stated that this issue only impacts all users with Android 10 and above, but it has now confirmed that the emergency…

The Petri IT Knowledgebase is looking for writers! Petri is a leading site providing IT professionals with tutorials, news, and advice on how to work with Microsoft enterprise technologies. The editorial team is looking for content creators and IT professionals in the field who would like to help others by contributing their knowledge in the…

Using virtual machines (VM) and virtual servers is no new task. We have been working with the concept of providing time-sharing solutions since the late 1960s and early 1970s. This was because the cost of using mainframe computers was extortionate and logically it made more economical sense to utilize time sharing. With the release of…

Last month, a security researcher discovered a new zero-day exploit in the Apache Log4j Java-based logging library that threat actors could abuse to execute malicious code on affected systems. Apache has released a new update (Log4j version 2.17.1) this week that aims to address the remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in v2.17.0. For those unfamiliar,…

Microsoft Teams has released a new update that brings some improvements to the raise-hand feature in meetings. As pointed out by Microsoft MVP Cameron Dwyer on Twitter, the Teams desktop client now allows meeting organizers to view the numerical order in which the participants have raised their hands. The Microsoft Teams desktop app introduced the…

Microsoft 365 E3 vs E5 plans in review Microsoft 365, if not the most popular, is way up there in terms of productivity solutions for your organization. There are plans that serve smaller SMBs all the way up to 100,000+ employee enterprises. The solutions serve many vertical markets including healthcare, charities, commercial, etc., with specific…

Microsoft has started working on a new followable web feature for its Edge browser that will let users subscribe to their favorite publishers and creators across the web. The RSS tracking option was first spotted by Reddit user u/Leopeva64-2, and it’s now live for select Insiders in the latest Canary versions of Microsoft Edge. With this…

Microsoft has acknowledged a new Windows 11 bug that prevents some image editing applications from rendering colors correctly on select high dynamic range (HDR) displays. The company explained on its Windows Health Dashboard that the issue is caused by some incompatibilities with color rendering Win32 APIs under specific circumstances, and it seems to be particularly…