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Microsoft announced at its Ignite conference, which ran March 2nd – 4th 2021, that passwordless authentication is now generally available. Microsoft has been pushing passwordless over the past couple of years as a more secure way to provide access than passwords and multifactor authentication. Now that passwordless authentication is generally available, organizations can roll out…

As an IT Professional, can you survive without PowerShell? I can imagine there are several debates around this topic on Reddit right now. The short answer is yes, you probably can (barely). However, keeping PowerShell as your go-to tool on your IT Pro toolbelt will bring you varying productivity and efficiency boosts. Quite simply, the…

Microsoft has released several new patches for Exchange Server after they discovered an active 0-day vulnerability.

Microsoft is retiring the Delve mobile apps but the technology is still baked into the graph.

At Ignite 2021, Micorosft has unveiled several new Teams pieces of hardware that will compliment the software experience.

At Ignite 2021, Microsoft has announced new functionality for Teams like webinar features as well as updates to privacy tools too.

Today Microsoft officially announced the availability of Windows Server 2022 in preview at its Ignite conference, which is running March 2nd to 4th. Windows Server Insider Preview build 20292 is a Long-Term Servicing Channel (LTSC) release and which first appeared at the beginning of February. On the download page, the build was labeled ‘Windows Server…

Microsoft officially announced today the general availability of Universal Print at its Ignite conference.

At Microsoft’s Ignite conference this week, there was a series of announcements for new Azure Active Directory features either entering general availability or released in public preview. AWS Single Sign-On (SSO) The Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) app gallery now includes AWS Single Sign-On (SSO). AWS SSO is a cloud service that is designed to…

Microsoft is hosting its Ignite conference today and the company has announced a new mixed reality platform that they are calling Microsoft Mesh. I got a small look at a description of the service prior to Ignite and now during his keynote, Satya Nadella made the official Microsoft Mesh announcement. In the keynote, Satya makes…

Hello Power Platform Pals. Are you looking for the scoop on what Microsoft announced today at Ignite for our precious Power Platform? Then look no further. I am going to give you the breakdown of what they said and a bit of commentary on what I think of the announcement. If that doesn’t sound like…

Because Microsoft is having its second Ignite virtual event in five months, this edition of Short Takes looks exclusively at the news the software giant announced at this event. Or, at least some of it.