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Cyber Attacks Up 38%. BE VIGILANT!! Mastering Identity Threat Detection and Response: Strengthening Operational Resilience Against Cyberattacks on Active Directory and Azure AD Operational resilience today depends on your ability to prevent and quickly recover from the disruptions caused by cyberattacks. For most organizations, identity-first security is the key to such resilience. As Gartner notes,…

This Week in IT, there’s a critical Alert for MS 365 Admins: Your Emails Might Be at Risk with Google’s New Anti-Spam Rules – Discover Vital Steps to Ensure Seamless Communication Now! Plus, what you can do to protect your Windows Server 2012/R2 workloads as it reaches end of support, Active Directory is getting some…

The Focused Inbox is the keynote feature of the Outlook for iOS and Android mobile clients. All other clients in the Outlook family have used the Clutter feature, which processes mail on the server and removes unimportant items into the Clutter folder. Now Microsoft is dropping Clutter and introducing the Focused Inbox across the entire Outlook family. Rationalization and commonality is good, especially when features that really work are made available to all clients. Here’s how the changeover will occur.

Russell Smith shares tips for using Microsoft Azure Automation to schedule Azure runbooks to batch regular administrative tasks in the cloud.

Microsoft has released today the April 2023 Patch Tuesday updates for Windows 11 and Windows 10. This month, Microsoft fixed 97 vulnerabilities in Windows and other components, with one of them being already exploited by attackers.   On the quality and experience updates front, Microsoft is making the new Windows Local Administrator Password Solution (LAPS)…

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;…

Learn how to add a member server to an existing domain using a Microsoft Azure Resource Manager (ARM) template.

Learn to use the new PowerShell resource management cmdlets to provision a VM as a domain controller in Azure.

Learn what’s new in Azure AD Connect 1.1, plus reasons why you should upgrade to the latest version.

This guide will show you how to deploy an Azure virtual machine as a domain controller (DC).