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Why Exchange Transport Rules are a Good Way to Encrypt Email

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Exchange Online transport (mail flow) rules are a powerful way to ensure that email from Office 365 tenants to specific recipients are encrypted in a consistent manner. Using rules relieves the need for users to become involved and makes sure that email is protected in a way that recipients can read messages. It’s a good way to use the protection features built into Office 365.

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Microsoft’s Q2 Shows Stability in a Turbulent Market

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Microsoft has released their Q2 earnings for 2019, fiscal Q4 2018, with a revenue of $32.5 billion, an increase of 12% with an operating income of $10.3 billion.

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What Are AWS Gravitron Processors?

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Amazon has new Gravitron processors for its services, here’s how they can help save you some money.

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How To Run Commands on Remote Windows Servers Using Puppet Bolt

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Russell explains how to use Puppet Bolt to run commands remotely on Windows Server.

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Sponsored: Evolving Office 365 Tenants

Last Update: Dec 03, 2024

Office 365 serves a wide spectrum of organizations. Many are very small, some belong to government agencies, and some are used by large enterprises. And in the enterprise space, mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures are common events.

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The Three Different Types of Rules that are in the Azure Firewall

Last Update: Jun 04, 2025

Aidan explains what the three types of rules that are in the Azure Firewall, what they do, and how they are different from each other.

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The Only Hardware Battle that Matters for Microsoft is Education

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

A new generation is being brought up not on Windows and Office, but with iPads and Chromebooks; Microsoft needs to find a way to win in the hardware space at the low end of the market.

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Fixing a Multi-Protocol Exchange Server Vulnerability

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

No fix is available yet for the Exchange vulnerability reported by Dirk-jan Mollema and described in CVE-2018-8581. Apart from deploying a split permissions model, no out-of-the-box mitigation exists today. Microsoft is working actively to fix the problem and in the meantime, the brains of the Exchange community are hard at work to come up with possible solutions.

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What is AWS Firecracker?

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Amazon Firecracker is a new feature that makes it easier and safer to run micro-services.

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The Benefits of Backing Up Your Data to the Cloud

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

We all have heard about backing up our data to the cloud, but outlining all the benefits shows the true reason you should consider this approach.

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Windows Server 2019 GA Arrives on Azure

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Microsoft has finally made Windows Server 2019 (WS2019) generally available for IaaS virtual machines on their public cloud, Microsoft Azure.

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All Versions of On-Premises Exchange Server Vulnerable to New Attack

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

A newly-discovered vulnerability in Exchange potentially allows attackers to gain control over Active Directory. Since Exchange 2000, Exchange has been a highly-privileged server that’s tightly connected to Active Directory. Add in some NTLM weakness, Exchange Web Services push notifications, and everything comes together for the bad guys.

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