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Patch Tuesday November 2021 – Microsoft Patches Windows RDP Zero-Day and Exchange RCE

Patch Tuesday in November 2021 sees Microsoft release patches to address 55 CVEs, including fixes for 6 zero-day bugs. There are updates for products including Windows, Windows Server, Office, Exchange Server, Active Directory, Microsoft Dynamics, Hyper-V, and Azure Real Time Operating System (RTOS), which is ThreadX RTOS, an embedded real-time operating system that Microsoft purchased…

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Microsoft Announces New Multibillion-Dollar Investment in OpenAI

Microsoft has announced a new multibillion-dollar partnership with OpenAI. The company explained that the deal marks the beginning of the third phase of its existing partnership with the ChatGPT-maker, following two previous investments in 2019 and 2021, respectively. In a press release, Microsoft highlighted that this new partnership should enable both companies to create AI-powered…

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Cloud Conversations – Al Eardley on Microsoft Technology Center and Microsoft Certifications

Cloud Conversations is a weekly podcast that we’ll be featuring here on Petri. It’s about everything connected to cloud computing, including technologies like Azure, Microsoft 365, Power Platform, Microsoft Endpoint Manager (MEM), Microsoft Defender, Windows, Intune, and much more! Cloud Conversations – Al Eardley on Microsoft Technology Center and Microsoft Certifications Al Eardley is a Modern Work and Security Technical…

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Use a Super User Group for Privileged Access to Encrypted Office 365 Content

Controlling Access to Sensitive Content A recent Microsoft Technical Community article covers how to use Azure AD Privileged Identity Management to control access to the super-user permission for Azure Information Protection. An account holding super-user permission can access any content protected (encrypted) by an Azure Information Protection or Office 365 sensitivity label. I don’t intend…

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CES 2016: Microsoft Partners on Smart Car Technologies

Hoping to catch up to rivals such as Apple and Google, Microsoft today announced multiple partnerships with automotive companies aimed at enhancing the “connected car” experience.

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Microsoft Touts Fall Enterprise Push, Unveils Remote Desktop Apps for iOS and Android

Microsoft’s Satya Nadella discusses their cloud strategy, the fall enterprise application push, and the new remote desktop apps for iOS and Android.

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Microsoft Defender for Endpoint Gets Streamlined Device Connectivity Experience

Microsoft has released a new update that streamlines the device connectivity and onboarding experience for Microsoft Defender for Endpoint. The new feature is currently available in public preview for Windows PCs, with macOS and Linux support to follow in the coming months. Up until now, security teams were required to separately set up and manage…

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Adding Photos for Office 365 Guests

Office 365 apps like Teams, Groups, Planner, and SharePoint support guest user access, so they create guest accounts. Those accounts are pretty bare-boned, but you can liven them up by adding details, including user photos – which you might just copy from LinkedIn.

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Cloud Conversations: Merethe Stave on ChatGPT, Community, and Viva Explorers

Cloud Conversations is a regular podcast that we’ll be featuring here on Petri. It’s about everything connected to cloud computing, including technologies like Azure, Microsoft 365, Power Platform, Microsoft Endpoint Manager (MEM), Microsoft Defender, Windows, Intune, and much more! Cloud Conversations: Merethe Stave on ChatGPT, Community, and Viva Explorers Merethe Stave is a Senior Cloud Architect at Cloudway and a…

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Microsoft’s New Cloud Printing Service Moves Closer to Release

Early last year, we first caught wind that Microsoft was working on a new cloud-based printing feature. The idea is simple, bring printing into the modern age with a cloud-based printing solution.

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