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How to Block Adobe Flash Player Using Active Directory Group Policy

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Flash Player is a plug-in for browsers that is installed and maintained separately. Although it came bundled with some browsers. Not only that, but it was responsible for some scary security vulnerabilities over the years. So, developers and IT admins alike were glad to see the back of it.

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Veeam adds 200 new Features to its Backup and Recovery Suite with v11

Last Update: Jul 29, 2025

Veeam has announced their new v11 software and it brings 150 new features to the suite.

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Microsoft has new Clouds for Financial Services, Manufacturing, and Nonprofit

Microsoft is preparing to roll out new verticle cloud solutions targeted at several specific industries.

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Protecting Microsoft 365 from Ransomware Attacks with Filewall

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

FileWall for Exchange is designed to work using Microsoft’s Graph API and integrates directly with the service

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How to Access Planner and To Do Content in Teams

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

One of the latest steps in bringing workflows from other Microsoft 365 applications into the native Teams interface is creating an App called ‘Tasks by Planner and To Do’

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Understanding Character Encoding in PowerShell

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Working with strings in PowerShell is core to many different operations. With strings come the many different encodings that can be used. Learning to manipulate, understand, and use those encodings can make working with documents of different languages and types much easier to do.

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Microsoft’s Game Stack Live Developer Conference Takes Place April 20-21st

Last Update: Nov 19, 2024

Microsoft’s Game Stack Live developer event is taking place in late April and it will be a virtual event.

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Microsoft’s Bringing Text Predictions and Modern Comments to Word

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Microsoft is bringing two new features to Word: text predictions and modern commenting.

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Reactions are Headed to Outlook on the web and Mobile, Shows Promise but Significant Gaps Remain

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

If you don’t use something often, then you might even forget it exists. When I read that reactions in Outlook are rolling out soon, I had to go and check that the like button, which launched in 2015, still existed in Outlook on the web. The like button still exists and was one of the…

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Microsoft is Merging OneDrive and SharePoint Admin Centers

Microsoft is planning to merge the OneDrive and SharePoint admin centers next month.

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Microsoft Improves Security for Windows Server Update Services

Last Update: Nov 19, 2024

There haven’t been any significant changes to Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) for years. But recently, Microsoft released two updates that aim to make it easier to secure WSUS. In this article, I’ll look at how the two changes, introduced in September 2020 and January 2021, can help improve WSUS security. By default, Windows clients…

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Microsoft is Making Changes to the L in Windows/Office LTSC

Last Update: Aug 15, 2022

If you are riding on the Windows 10 and Office LTSC branches, your train is about to reach the station about 50% faster. Along with announcing that Office 2021 will be available later this year, the company is also cutting the support time in half. Starting with the LTSC release that will arrive in the…

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