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Late last month, Microsoft announced Windows 11 and not long after, released the first build of the OS. Today, the company is releasing the second build of the OS to Insiders. If you are part of the Dev ring of the Insider program, you can now download build 22000.65 by going to Settings – Windows…

I’m sure many of you are excited that Microsoft’s Windows Insider Program team recently launched the testing phase of Windows 11. What better way to get your feet wet than to test it in a brand-new virtual Hyper-V machine! Some of your users will probably be clamoring to upgrade when it’s official and recommended, so,…

Late yesterday, Microsoft released a patch that was expected to close the vulnerability that is known as PrintNightmare. The patch, which you can install via Windows Update and was released out-of-band, was known to not fully address all instances of Windows and Server but now it looks like researchers have uncovered that the patch is…

Zero Trust is a security model that can be applied to Microsoft 365. It focuses on improving security by verifying and testing both the identity and device before granting access to resources. You can think of Zero Trust as a way of working, wherein you take it for granted that every user and device accessing…

There are some exciting improvements on the way for Universal Print coming in Windows 11. In addition, it’s not just Universal Printing that is improving. Microsoft has made several nice enhancements to printing in general, too; let’s take a closer look. Universal Print is a modern printing solution that your company can utilize to work…

Microsoft has released an out-of-band patch that will plug up a hole in a known zero-day exploit. Known as PrintNightmare, the patch is now being released via Windows Update. At the heart of the issue is a remote code vulnerability that would allow an attacker to use Windows Print Spooler to perform privileged file operations….

When Microsoft released the first build of Windows 11 last month, the company also indicated that they would be updating Office to match the design of Windows 11. While the initial release arrived a few days later than anticipated, the company has started to push the visual update to those participating in the Office Insider…

I work with many legal and regulatory organizations that require no retention period for Microsoft Teams channels and their users’ chats. Other industries dictate that the information must be retained for 7 years while other customers don’t want to let go of any information and retain their chats indefinitely. This blog post will assist you…

I’ll admit that I may have done a not-so-best-practice type of thing, I have not gone into the Azure Portal in quite a long time (around 2 months). Now everyone’s usage of Azure is different and for me, I spend most of my time in the Azure Storage world, with many applications interacting with those…

Back in 2017, Microsoft had an ambitious plan to run SQL Server in a Windows container. At that time, containers were starting to make big waves in the infrastructure market and Microsoft did not want to be left out of the conversation. The company spun up its SQL Server on Windows Containers beta program and…

Microsoft announced that Windows Server 2022 was released to OEMs for testing earlier this month. And in a presentation last week, we got more detailed information about the features included in this release. Best on Azure Microsoft is pushing Azure as the best platform for hosting Windows Server 2022. And for the first time, there…

AvePoint is going public today – a major milestone for any company and highlights that the Microsoft 365 ecosystem continues to grow.