by Brad Sams
I am headed out on a family vacation so I plan to keep this one short and sweet but did not want to miss the opportunity to tell you about some of the great things happening across the Power Platform. There is a little bit for everyone. Power Platform release wave 2 plan: Ride the… Read More
by Brad Sams
Right on target, Microsoft has announced that Windows 365 is generally available. This means that the service, while only announced a couple of weeks back, is ready for business operations for small companies all the way up to enterprise customers. But up until today, we did not know the pricing for the service. Now that… Read More
July and August are usually a quiet time at Microsoft. But this year, there's a little more buzz than usual as Microsoft continues to prepare Windows 11 for a fall release. Microsoft Store in Windows 11 will not automatically update all Win32 apps In a support document for developers, Microsoft revealed that Win32 apps using… Read More
Kaseya Denies Paying Ransom for Key that Unlocks Data Encrypted by REvil Attack Plagued by ransomware attacks that exploited zero-day vulnerabilities in Kaseya’s VSA remote monitoring and management (RMM) system used by managed services providers (MSPs), the company now has a tool to decrypt data locked by the attackers known as REvil. Kaseya’s Incident Response… Read More
by Michael Otey
On July 19th 2021, Amazon announced the general availability of their new Amazon ECS io2 Block Express volumes service. Amazon io2 volumes have been available since 2020 and they are essentially provisioned SSDs designed to deliver 99.999% durability. Amazon ECS io2 Block Express are io2 volumes running on the EBS Block Express architecture. ECS io2… Read More
Because Microsoft announced its quarterly and annual earnings this week, this edition of Short Takes looks exclusively at the results across all of the software giant’s major business units.
by Brad Sams
The end of June marks the end of Microsoft's fiscal year and the company has released its earnings for FYQ4, CY2. Once again, the company beat expectations with a significant rise in profits and revenue. For the quarter, Microsoft posted revenue of $46.2 billion, net income of $16.5 billion, and an operating income of $19.1… Read More
Nearly all MSPs now offer managed security services, according to Datto’s Global State of the MSP Report released Thursday. The remote monitoring and management (RMM) and data protection provider surveyed 1,800 MSPs for the report. According to the survey’s findings, 99% now provide managed security services, 50% have helped customers move more than half of… Read More
by Brad Sams
Last month, Microsoft officially announced Windows 11 and that it would be released in the fall. The new OS that ships with an updated interface and new servicing model, will refresh the OS but it is not a significant overhaul of the entire operating system. One of the primary benefits for IT Pros is that… Read More
by Brad Sams
Last month, when Microsoft announced Windows 11, the company also said that they would be bringing Teams to the OS with a new app bundled out of the box. Not long after the announcement, we learned that Microsoft was re-building the Teams app, unofficially called Teams 2.0, with the goal of improving performance and cutting… Read More
If you're an IT Pro offering support in an Education or Higher Education organization, your world, over the last year and a half, has been turned into 'the upside-down.' Now, I'm not inferring that the information here will necessarily save you from the Demogorgon (did you know they can be as tall as eighteen feet!?),… Read More
Microsoft patches 103 security vulnerabilities this month, including PrintNightmare, a Windows DNS Server bug, 3 elevation of privilege vulnerabilities in the Windows kernel, and much more. Windows and Windows Server Let's start with the bug that surfaced earlier in July month called PrintNightmare. PrintNightmare Microsoft issued an out-of-band cumulative update (CU) for a remote execution… Read More
by Brad Sams
For the second year in a row, Microsoft is hosting its Inspire conference virtually but there is hope on the horizon that next year, it will be in person once again. But for companies that operate inside the Microsoft 365 ecosystem, this is a big week as Microsoft has unveiled new products and solutions for… Read More
by Brad Sams
This week, Microsoft is hosting its virtual Inspire conference where the company unveils solutions and tools for their partners to help them build services on top of the company's platforms. For FY 2022, Microsoft is unveiling Windows 365, a new way to deploy Windows 10 or Windows 11. Windows 365 is a new service from… Read More
by Brad Sams
Microsoft has announced today that the company is acquiring RiskIQ, a company based out of San Francisco that specializes in detecting security threats. RiskIQ was founded in 2009 and specializes in detecting external threats and helping its customers protect their data by "extending cybersecurity beyond the firewall" in their own terms. RiskIQ is a SaaS… Read More
Join us on Tuesday, August 24th and hear from Microsoft MVPs and industry experts about how to take advantage of Microsoft 365 at a technical level and dive deep into the features and functionality that will make your environment more secure and compliant.
