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There are times that you may want to use Windows Server 2008 as your personal workstation OS, and Daniel Petri shows you how.

Microsoft Defender for Endpoint (MDE) is much more than a traditional antivirus service. Now being offered in Plan 1 and Plan 2, the full offering you get with Plan 2 not only provides antivirus capabilities but also extended detection and response, attack surface reduction rules to harden the OS against common threat mechanisms, and threat…

Azure Active Directory (AD) is Microsoft’s cloud-based identity and access management (IAM) cloud service. Azure AD is generally seen as a move from on-premises IAM to the cloud. Learn more about Azure AD here. What is Azure Active Directory (Microsoft Entra ID)? Microsoft Azure Active Directory (Azure AD, AAD, Entra ID, etc.) is a cloud…

In this first episode, Stephen and Paul describe the history of Microsoft 365 and how it enables a modern desktop that replaces Windows 7 and Office 2010.

In this video post, Joe Rinehart of TrainSignal explores Border Gateway Protocol Troubleshooting techniques to four of the more common issues that can arise on your BGP. Joe covers neighbor relationship problems, route advertisement issues, routes missing from the table, and address summarization problems. A great post for anyone that is going to take the Cisco CCNP Route exam.

A hybrid cloud architecture is an environment that combines private computing resources with a public cloud. A public cloud is a cloud computing platform provided by a third-party company, and a good example would be Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services, or the Google Cloud Platform. In this article, we’ll explain how a hybrid cloud architecture works…

Microsoft announced the release of the October 2023 Patch Tuesday updates for Windows 10 and Windows 11 yesterday. This month, the company has addressed 103 security vulnerabilities, including three actively exploited zero-day flaws affecting Microsoft WordPad, Skype for Business, and the HTTP/2 protocol. October 2023 Patch Tuesday updates fix over 100 vulnerabilities In October, Microsoft…

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; some will be IT pros. We will be tackling various subject areas in the form of 30-minute audio interviews. I will be asking the questions, the…

In this edition of Petri Dish, Petri’s Editorial Director, Russell Smith, talks to Russell Spitler, Co-Founder and CEO of Nudge Security, a leader in cloud and SaaS protection. In this insightful discussion, we explore Nudge Security’s innovative strategies and technologies that are transforming how businesses safeguard their digital assets. Discover how Nudge Security is setting…

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;…