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MC454810 – Updated March 3, 2023: Microsoft has updated rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience. Microsoft 365 Apps are disabling server sign-in prompts using Basic authentication in Office Apps. Microsoft is making this change because basic authentication is a legacy authentication method that sends a username and password with each request. As a…

Because just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in, this edition of Short Takes looks at Microsoft’s continued concessions to the customers that matter most, an Office 365 throttling issue, weather v. Microsoft, and much more.

In the first part of this series, I look at the basics of Microsoft’s new Windows Virtual Desktop service.

I have known about Azure File Sync for quite a while under NDA and have been itching to start talking about it. It’s a killer service that an incredible number of businesses could benefit from.

Microsoft has changed up some of its organizational structure as well as combing a couple of teams in its mixed reality org.

Learn about Microsoft’s recent updates, add-ons, and improvements to System Center 2012, Windows Intune, and Windows Azure — all designed to give IT managers more control over cloud resources.

Protecting core infrastructure components like SQL Server is certainly one of the database professional first priorities. However, for those businesses still running SQL Server 2008/R2, that’s become a problem.

MC689933 – Announced at Ignite 2023, Bing Chat Enterprise has been renamed to Microsoft Copilot. Copilot offers the same commercial data protection for Entra ID (work account) users as Bing Chat Enterprise did. Users will also be able to experience Copilot from a new location: copilot.microsoft.com. Entra ID users with Microsoft 365 E3, E5, Business Standard,…

Because I do not like it Sam-I-Am, this week’s edition of Short Takes looks at Windows 10 version 1803 out in the wild, Microsoft’s coming Office UI change, new Surface PCs, and much, much more.

Microsoft has released a new optional update for Windows 10 and Windows 11 version 22H2. This release brings bug fixes for a critical security issue that was previously preventing the Windows kernel vulnerable driver blocklist from being synced to older versions of Windows. The hypervisor-protected code integrity (HVCI) feature is designed to protect Windows users…