Microsoft plans to streamline Windows enterprise update management by integrating Windows Autopatch with Windows Update for Business from September to October 2024, enhancing automation, and simplifying processes within Microsoft Intune.
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Strengthening Security: MFA Required for Microsoft Admin Access
Starting October 15, 2024, Microsoft will mandate multi-factor authentication (MFA) for admins accessing the Microsoft Azure portal, Microsoft Entra admin center, and Microsoft Intune admin center, including services like Windows 365 Cloud PC accessed via Intune. This move aims to enhance security and prevent unauthorized access. Organizations must enable MFA to maintain access after the deadline, though they can apply for an extension if necessary. Admins will be required to register for MFA upon their next login if not pre-configured. This initiative is part of Microsoft’s broader strategy to strengthen security against evolving cyber threats, and organizations are urged to prepare and update their teams and documentation accordingly.
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Embrace the Power of MFA to Protect Your Accounts
Ready to conquer the digital world? Unlock the Digital Fortress with MFA and embrace its powerful protection!
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ChatGPT: A New Way to AI
OpenAI has done something pretty unique. They have opened up their new product, ChatGPT (https://chat.openai.com), to the world for free during a training period. A bit of background on GPT GPT-3 (short for “Generative Pre-training Transformer 3”) is a language generation model developed by OpenAI. It is a type of artificial intelligence (AI) that is …
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Leverage Redundancy to Improve System Uptime
In the business world just a couple of decades ago, a certain amount of occasional downtime was almost expected in business systems. It wasn’t uncommon for email systems, web servers, and file/applications servers to need occasional reboots, fall victim to memory leak errors, succumb to internet outages, or crash all together. Avoiding unplanned downtime was …
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LastPass Breach… Is Your Data Safe?
The popular password management tool LastPass has seen two breaches in a roughly 3 month period.
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Viva Connections and Other Changes to Microsoft 365
Microsoft has announced several changes to the Microsoft 365 cloud. These new features will be of interest to both end users and companies alike. If you’ve opted in to see preview features, some of these items may be visible now. Microsoft Viva Connections At this point, many people are familiar with Microsoft’s existing product, Viva …
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Accessibility Features Coming to Microsoft 365 in Fall 2021
Microsoft has announced improvements to the accessibility functionality of Microsoft Teams and Outlook to help improve the inclusiveness of the workplace. Several of these features are aimed at improving the experience for “deaf and hard of hearing people and increase flexibility and focus for everyone.” Though, these features are useful for a far greater user …
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A Better Way to Copy and Paste in Windows 10 with Cloud Clipboard
Windows now leverages the cloud to sync across devices allowing you to be more productive. If you choose to enable syncing, you can access your copied content from any Windows device you’re logged into and add or modify it at a moment’s notice. You can review what you copy in the clipboard history viewer, hold multiple pieces of text and images there, and share them with any other Windows devices you’re logged into.
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Review of Surface Go Tablet
Since the Microsoft Ignite conference in early November, I have been reviewing the Surface Go device to see how useful it is to someone like me. For this review unit, I opted for the matching surface keyboard and pen. My daily driver laptop is a Lenovo ThinkPad T460 which is rock solid and where I run my work applications. The purpose of using the Surface Go was not for it to be a replacement for my work computer, but rather an in-between device. Something that can handle most of my personal computing needs. There are a few different models available, but I chose a model with an Intel Pentium 4415Y CPU, 128 GB of storage, and 8 GB of RAM. This device comes with Windows 10 Home in S-Mode. For this testing period, I kept Windows in this mode so that I was testing an out-of-the-box experience.
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Bring Your Own Device: Making BYOD Work in Your Company
BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) is the allowance of employee-owned equipment onto company systems. Typically, this involves employees using consumer computing devices (such as iPads or Surface tablets) to get work done, either in the office, at home, or on the road. Many of these devices are not designed to “get work done,” but instead to consume content (e.g., checking email, reading news, social media, etc.). These devices are not managed and may lack even the most basic security features enabled. Here is the problem: If your BYOD strategy is not planned correctly, this can spell disaster for any corporate network. How is your company protecting its data on devices out of its control? What happens when an employee leaves the company or a device is accidentally left behind at a coffee shop?
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Save Money with Azure VMs by Using Azure Hybrid Use Benefit
Traditionally Windows VMs (virtual machines) in Azure would include a Windows Server Datacenter license. The cost of this license was built into the hourly/monthly fee for that VM. This made systems easy to roll out using the GUI wizards and made licensing a cinch. If you are moving existing virtual machine workloads to the cloud, …
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PowerShell in Action – June 2nd @ Microsoft Burlington, MA
PowerShell in Action – June 2, 2017 – Microsoft Burlington Join us for a day of PowerShell. Just as it is a tool for you to do amazing things, we are going to use it as a tool to explore amazing technologies. If you are looking to learn PowerShell, we have an entire track dedicated …
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Windows 10 Features: Wi-Fi Sense
One of the more controversial features of Windows 10 is Wi-Fi Sense. Though it has been on Windows Phone for some time, this is a new feature of Windows 10. Wi-Fi Sense allows you to share access to a wireless network with your friends on social media sites like Facebook. Wi-Fi Sense also allows you …
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Thank you Microsoft for the MVP Award!
I am extremely excited to announce this week I got the word that I have been awarded this year’s Microsoft Most Valuable Professional award for Microsoft Azure. I am very thankful to Microsoft and to everyone who helped make this possible. I feel so very lucky to be amongst the very few selected for this …
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