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We’re doing a twice-monthly interview show on Petri.com that is dedicated to covering topics of interest to our tech-professional audience. We have branded this show “MJFChat.” In my role as Petri’s Community Magnate, I will be interviewing a variety of IT-savvy technology folks. Some of these will be Petri contributors; some will be tech-company employees;…

Microsoft has announced plans to introduce new Conditional Access policies that will automatically protect customers against potential cyberattacks. Starting next week, the company will begin rolling out the new policies to all eligible commercial customers. “We’ve designed these policies based on our deep knowledge of the current cyberthreat landscape to help our customers strengthen their…

DevOps Pipelines help you to deliver new features in your apps fast! In this article, I will explain what DevOps pipelines are, phases in a pipeline, and the different components. I’ll also cover what you need to understand before building a DevOps pipeline of your own, along with the build process. DevOps has revolutionized the contemporary IT…

It’s called Office 365 but this month was all about Teams, Teams, Teams.

Even though Microsoft has your data, that doesn’t mean you are protected from an outage…here’s what you need to consider with Office 365 and your data.

Because it’s that time of the quarter, this special edition of Short Takes will focus exclusively on Microsoft’s latest quarterly earnings report.

Microsoft has detailed its efforts to enable phishing-resistant authentication methods for organizations. The company is implementing several security features, including device-bound passkeys, FIDO2 support for iOS and macOS apps, and Certificate-Based Authentication updates, to enhance the overall protection for all Entra ID customers. Microsoft has announced that it will soon introduce a new feature for…

Microsoft is improving the collaboration experience with updates to Entra ID cross-tenant access settings. These enhancements include support for custom roles in cross-tenant access settings, protected actions, the removal of partner limits, and more. Microsoft announced the commercial release of Entra ID cross-tenant collaboration settings in preview last year. The feature is designed to make…

Microsoft is getting ready to enhance the user experience for Mac devices with its upcoming Platform Single Sign-On (SSO) capabilities. The new feature will offer a seamless and secure way for macOS users to access their Entra ID accounts across various applications and websites. Microsoft launched its Enterprise Single Sign-On (SSO) plug-in for Apple devices…

Microsoft has recently disclosed a security breach that allowed Chinese hackers to access the email accounts of around two dozen organizations. Now, security researchers have found that the stolen security key provided access to far beyond Outlook and Exchange Online email accounts. According to Microsoft, the Chinese hacking group (dubbed Storm-0558) used forged authentication tokens…