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Microsoft Teams Will End Support for IE 11 in November

Microsoft is ending support of IE 11 for many of its Microsoft 365 services starting in November.

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Is the Modern UI in Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 R2 ready for the enterprise?

Is the new UI introduced in Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 R2 ready for the enterprise? Russell gives us his take and offers suggestions for improvement.

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Patch Tuesday April 2019

This month Windows is patched for two zero-day flaws, Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 users report that devices with Sophos Antivirus can’t log in after installing KB4493472 and authentication failures to services configured with unconstrained delegation.

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Disable the RunAs Command

Can I disable the RunAs command? You sure can! The RunAs command was first introduced in Windows 2000 (in NT 4.0 you could use a tool called SU.EXE from the Resource Kit), and enables administrators to use alternate logons, also known as secondary logons. As a security best practice, it is recommended that you do…

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Enabling Remote Management in Windows Server 2008 R2

In this article, Daniel explains a handy new feature of Windows Server 2008 R2, which allows for remote management from another server or from a Windows 7 workstation, by using Server Manager.

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Moving Legacy Archives to Office 365 Is Painful

Migration of legacy archives like Enterprise Vault are often left as the last part of the journey from on-premises servers to Office 365. A wide range of third-party migration tools are available, but many complex twists and turns await the unwary as they cope with journal reports, archive mailboxes, splitting and explosions, and the sheer amount of data to be migrated. It’s an interesting problem to solve.

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Small Business Server 2003 Gold (RTM) Patches

SBS 2003 Gold (RTM) Patches Required Patches SBS 2003 (Small Business Server) which is based on Windows Server 2003 requires the following security-related patches: Make sure you read Internet Explorer 6.0 SP1 Patches before you go on. February 2004 MS04-007 : ASN .1 Vulnerability Could Allow Code Execution (828028) MS04-006 : Vulnerability in the Windows…

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Configuring Auto Logon

Can I configure Windows 2000/XP/2003 to log me on automatically? You sure can! Old but nevertheless good. The auto logon can be accomplished by means of Registry modifying, or by use of 3rd-party tools. To configure auto logon through the Registry follow these steps: Open Registry Editor. In Registry Editor, navigate to the following registry…

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Microsoft Provides Temporary Fix for Office 365 Zero-Day

September 7th, Microsoft released a security advisory for a remote code execution vulnerability (CVE-2021-40444) in Microsoft MSHTML, the rendering engine that Office apps use in Windows to display web content. Microsoft says that it is investigating reports of targeted attacks that try to exploit the MSHTML flaw using specially designed Microsoft Office files. The announcement…

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Configure Single Sign-On to Enterprise Apps using Azure Active Directory

Want to setup single sign-on (SSO) for enterprise apps using Azure Active Directory? Russell Smith walks us through the process in this helpful tutorial.

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