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Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) is an open standard that facilitates user logon to on-premises and cloud services.

How should I post messages to newsgroups without getting spam and viruses? Featured Product: Free AntiSpam for Exchange! DNS Blacklist checking & more – GFI MailEssentials. A fully functional 30-day trial is available for download. Newsgroups allow you to “post” messages (called a “posting”), respond to others’ posts, and even download files they’ve left there…

We’re back with more about custom content types! Learn to create SharePoint 2013 content types, and learn about content type columns, parents, and more.

Microsoft has released a new gradual rollouts feature for its Windows Update for Business deployment service. This new capability was first announced in November 2021, and it aims to ensure a smoother feature update experience for organizations with specific software and hardware compatibility issues. For those unfamiliar, Windows Update for Business was introduced in March…

Tony Redmond explores some things he found out or explored during the week, including a solid DLP roadmap for Office 365, how BMC Remedy creates incident tickets from DLP audit events, that Veeam now offers a backup for Exchange Online, how QUADROtech’s ADAM plans to drag public folders into the 21st century, and more.

These LDAP search strings are good for Saved Queries in Windows Server 2003 AD Users and Computers, Query-based Distribution Groups and Exchange 2000/2003 Recipient Policies and Address Lists. In order to use the LDAP strings please consult your product help. Most regular LDAP searches can be easily done via the provided GUI (such as in a…

Using the New-ADUser cmdlet and -Instance parameter, you can copy AD attributes from an existing user when creating new Active Directory user accounts.

Stream to Use SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business Microsoft announced Stream 2.0, a major refresh of the Stream video portal, in the What’s New for Microsoft Stream and Video in Microsoft 365 session at the virtual Ignite 2020 conference. The big news is that Stream is moving its video storage from the Stream Azure-based…

Security is an ever increasing concern in almost every area of society today and computers are no exception. A detailed computer security plan should not only include policies and procedures to ensure that proper access rights are configured for all users, it must also include methods for verifying that these rights are effectively deployed throughout…

Windows 11 Secured-core configuration lock (config lock) is a new system-level feature on the Windows 11 2022 Update to protect secured-core PCs from unintentional misconfiguration. When enabled, Windows 11 config lock should guarantee that secured-core PCs won’t be affected by configuration drift. In this article, I’ll be detailing how config lock works and how you…