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Windows 10 20H2 Arrives Today, Here’s What IT Pros Need to Know

WIndows 10 20H2 is now available for some users but here’s what IT Pros need to know.

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How to Update Windows System Images Using the Antimalware Update Package for Microsoft Defender

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Update the Microsoft Defender engine, platform, and security intelligence file in Windows system images.

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Teams Will Finally Use Native Windows Notifications Starting Next Month

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Microsoft will finally enable Teams to use native notifications starting next month.

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Microsoft Brings Integrated SIEM and XDR Tools to Defender and Azure Sentinel

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

At its Ignite conference in September, Microsoft announced a serious of branding changes for Microsoft Defender and new features for Azure Sentinel.

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New Crucial Audit Events Added to Office 365

Helping Investigators Understand What Happened In March, Microsoft eventually released the MailItemsAccessed “crucial audit event” for accounts holding Office 365 E5 licenses (other suitable licenses include Microsoft 365 E5 or the Microsoft 365 E5 compliance). Crucial events are deemed to be of higher value to investigators or others who need to understand exactly what happened…

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Paul Thurrott’s Short Takes: October 16

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Because it’s the Ides of October, this edition of Short Takes looks at mounting antitrust scrutiny of Big Tech, a Satya Nadella call for a “referendum on capitalism,” some antitrust nostalgia from Bill Gates, a Microsoft AI for auto-captioning images, and much more.

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Working with Microsoft Entra ID Administrative Units

Last Update: Aug 06, 2026

Logical Division of Azure Active Directory Management Since its launch in 1999, Active Directory has used Organizational Units (OUs) to logically partition the directory. Despite discussions going back as far as 2014, the ability to partition Azure Active Directory in the same or an equivalent manner wasn’t available. Administrative Units (AUs), launched in public preview…

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How To Enable Advanced Teams Audio Features Including Hard Mute

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Microsoft Teams has advanced audio controls and here is how you can use them during your next meeting or presentation.

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How to Limit OneDrive Upload Bandwidth

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

By default, the OneDrive sync client upload rate isn’t limited. In this article, I explain when and how to limit upload bandwidth.

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Office 2010 Support Ends Today

Microsoft is shutting the doors on Office 2010 today and it’s time to update if you have not done so already.

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How to Set Up SMS-Based Authentication for Microsoft 365 and Azure Active Directory Users

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Configure SMS-based sign-in for Azure Active Directory and Microsoft 365 users.

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Microsoft’s Tenant to Tenant Migration Vision Lacks Coverage and Depth

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Image 1 Expand Those who listened to Microsoft’s virtual Ignite session on Supporting Mergers, Acquisitions, and Divestitures in Microsoft 365 might have concluded that Office 365 tenant restructuring was about to become possible. It’s not. What’s really happening is that Microsoft is taking on the easiest parts of tenant to tenant migrations: cross-tenant mailbox migration (now…

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