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Microsoft Windows Secure Boot has a big problem. It’s no longer secure, and can’t be fixed—or so say a pair of security researchers who found the issue. Apparently, Microsoft created a secret backdoor, for internal QA use. But two Ring Of Lightning researchers uncovered the so-called “golden key.”

See how the cloud can enhance your backup and DR capabilities and make sure that you are prepared for the next interruption to your environment.

The Microsoft Teams application is now generally available. Lots has been done to improve Teams since its preview release and Microsoft has made many good updates. Some edges remain for Microsoft to work on, but Teams is now more than a valid competitor for Slack in the chat-based collaboration market.

Microsoft makes it easy for companies to use Office 365 and has been very successful in moving customers to the cloud. But when you get to the cloud and find that your company is involved in a corporate merger, acquisition, or split, things are not so easy because the tools to do the work don’t exist. Some glimmer of hope exists as ISVs have started to take interest in the space.

Hello Power Platform Pals. Are you looking for the scoop on what Microsoft announced today at Ignite for our precious Power Platform? Then look no further. I am going to give you the breakdown of what they said and a bit of commentary on what I think of the announcement. If that doesn’t sound like…

Most of the changes in Windows 10 version 2004, which is due to land in the first half of 2020, are under-the-hood. And the Windows 10 November 2019 Update got some of the changes that were in development as part of 20H1, like enhancements to search in File Explorer. This first article in a two-part series looks at the productivity improvements coming as part of Windows 10 version 2004.

With May now behind us, let’s take a look at the key announcements from the Office Team during the month.

In this Ask the Admin, I’ll look at what you can do with Bash and the Windows Subsystem for Linux in Windows 10 and Windows Server 1709.

Russell Smith explains how attackers target businesses indiscriminately and outlines some steps for securing your devices.

Russell Smith gives us the low-down on Microsoft’s ‘Just-In-Time’ Privileged Access Management model, a feature which will be updated in Windows Server vNext.