Microsoft has unveiled three new industry cloud offerings for financial services, manufacturing and nonprofits, coming shortly after the tech giant announced similar offerings for healthcare and retail. The company bills these new cloud offerings as a solution to industry challenges, including ones that emerged over the past year due to the COVID-19 pandemic as companies […]
Although Microsoft maintains that none of its tools were leveraged by the threat group behind the SolarWinds Orion compromise, the company did disclose that the hackers viewed source code for a small subset of Azure, Intune and Exchange components. In a Microsoft Security Response Center blog on the final update of the company’s internal investigation […]
Microsoft is planning a new data center region and new office space spanning 90 acres of land in the Atlanta area that will make the region one of the company’s largest hubs in the U.S. In two blog posts, company executives laid out the plan for its next U.S. datacenter in the Georgia counties of […]
Microsoft has added two new productivity apps to Teams designed to keep team members informed and track key initiatives. The apps – Bulletins and Milestones – are easy to configure and can work immediately. They are built on the Power Platform and “can easily be extended using the powerful low-code platform from right within Teams […]
The Microsoft Security Response Center says they’ve released a set of fixes for Windows TCP/IP implementation, including two Critical Remote Code Execution (RCE) vulnerabilities and a Denial of Service (DoS) vulnerability. In a recent statement, the Center said the vulns were complex and hard to create into actual exploits. “We believe attackers will be able […]
Microsoft is adding a new feature to Microsoft Defender for Office 365 that will better alert customers of a suspected nation state attack. As first reported by ZDNet, the company is adding an alert to the security portal that will alert customers when nation-state activity is detected in the customer’s environment. The feature was added to […]
Users and teams till working with Microsoft legacy browsers like Internet Explorer and Microsoft Edge Legacy will soon have to switch to new browsers if they want to continue using Office 365 web apps like Microsoft Teams. In blog posts, Microsoft announced that new versions of the new browser will be pushed out to users […]
Microsoft this week announced a new recommended set of configurations that allows IT professionals to set up Windows 10 devices and optimize them for the cloud. The new offering – called “cloud config” or “in cloud,” is designed to use the technology infrastructure organizations already have – like Microsoft Endpoint Manager, Windows 10 and apps […]
Microsoft on Thursday introduced Microsoft Viva, a new employee experience solution designed to support the hybrid workforce and provide a single-entry point for employee engagement and internal communication. Microsoft Viva will be is powered by Microsoft 365 and accessed through Microsoft Teams and other Microsoft 365 apps, according to the company. In a blog post […]
Microsoft’s Application Guard for Office – an enterprise security feature that isolates untrusted documents to protect users against malicious and potentially harmful threats – is now generally available. Announced Wednesday, months after it was first available in public preview, Application Guard is being marketed as a way to better protect remote and hybrid employees from […]
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