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One of the things that is rather powerful about Azure Storage is that there are a number of different offerings. Azure Blob Storage has three tiers that should be very familiar Hot, Cool, and Archive.

SMS and Voice MFA Methods in Microsoft’s Crosshairs On November 10 Alex Weinert, the Director of Identity Security at Microsoft, posted It’s Time to Hang Up on Phone Transports for Authentication. The article argues that it’s time to consider dumping the SMS and voice methods for multi-factor authentication (MFA) in favor of passwordless strong authentication…

PowerShell offers native cmdlets that allow you to quickly search for just what you want to find in the Windows Event Log. The ability to filter results and return just what is needed helps to focus your troubleshooting efforts in just the right place.

When it comes to security, the list of ways that attackers can steal information from your environment is growing at a rate faster than researchers can plug the holes. If you need any proof of this, take a look at how frequently Microsoft is patching Windows. It’s not completely fair to call out Microsoft in…

The Export-CSV and Import-CSV cmdlets are exceptionally useful tools to both export data for consumption to other applications and to retrieve and import information from third-party data sources.

Microsoft uses National Cybersecurity Awareness Month to highlight import security issues to help raise awareness with its customers.

With more than 115 million daily users of Teams, the platform is the communication hub for Microsoft 365. And today, the company is announcing a couple of updates that they hope will make the collaborating experience a little bit better with nearly 20 new apps for meetings coming to the Teams apps store. Microsoft is…

How Microsoft Advises Tenants About New Features During a recent discussion, I was asked why Microsoft seems to publish so many incorrect roll-out dates for new Teams features. While my gut feel was that it certainly seems like some Teams features are delayed, some evidence was needed to prove or disprove the case. When Microsoft…

Because it’s Friday the 13th, this edition of Short Takes looks at the Xbox Series X|S launch, the .NET 5.0 launch, a new Microsoft employee who created Python, a former Microsoft employee who stole $10 million from the company, and so much more.

Microsoft patches 112 bugs, including a zero-day for the Windows kernel.

Launched in 2019 for the U.S. Microsoft introduced Play My Emails in Outlook mobile (initially iOS, now for Android too) at the Ignite 2019 conference. I was excited at the notion of being able to process email in a different way. The promise was that a natural voice would generate an intelligent readout of messages…

Looking for a simple and easy way to delete content with PowerShell? Here you go.