Microsoft is launching Viva Sales, which the Redmond, Wash. IT giant calls a new seller tool that combines any customer relationship management (CRM) technology, Microsoft 365 and Teams to provide a streamlined and intelligence selling experience. Microsoft bills the new offering as a way to keep hybrid and remote salespeople productive while navigating between CRMs, […]
Users still trying to use Internet Explorer will be redirected to Microsoft Edge as Microsoft’s legacy internet browser has been officially retired as of today. Microsoft has been actively promoting Microsoft Edge and alerting organizations and users still using Explorer that the browser would be shut down on June 15, and the date has finally […]
Microsoft says it is acquiring cyber threat analysis and research firm Miburo in a move the company hopes will help organizations detect and respond to sophisticated nation-state cyberattacks. In a blog post penned by Tom Burt, corporate vice president of customer security and trust, in the blog, Microsoft says Miburo will become part of the […]
Despite issuing patches for just 60 security bugs this month, Microsoft’s June Patch Tuesday release include a fix for Follina, a dangerous remote code execution zero-day in the company’s Windows Support Diagnostic Tool that is being actively exploited. According to Microsoft, attackers who successfully exploit the bug, tracked as CVE-2022-30190, can run arbitrary code with […]
Microsoft Defender for Endpoint can now isolate unmanaged devices that are suspected of being compromised and block it from any incoming or outgoing communication with devices enrolled in Defender for Endpoint. According to Microsoft, this is designed to help prevent human-operated ransomware from moving laterally and spreading from an unmanaged device throughout an organization’s network. […]
Update July 11: Windows Autopatch is now generally available. The public preview for Windows Autopatch is now available for organizations that want to automate the process of managing and rolling out updates for Windows and Microsoft 365 apps about a month before it is expected to reach general availability. The Autopatch service, free for certain […]
In a significant step towards interoperability between major videoconferencing platforms, Microsoft is making it easier to join third-party meeting platforms from Teams Rooms, starting with Zoom with the launch of Direct Guest Join. The company calls Direct Guest Join a “one-touch experience” that enables users to join a third-party online meeting from their Teams Rooms […]
In conjunction with the general availability launch of Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability, Accenture, Microsoft and Avanade announced an expansion of their partnership to help organizations tackle climate change and other environmental, social and governance (ESG) challenges. The three companies aim to deliver solutions to help organizations transform operations products, services and value chains to help […]
Microsoft is releasing Microsoft Entra, a new family of products that houses all of the company’s identity and access capabilities, including Azure Active Directory and two new product categories for cloud infrastructure entitlement management and decentralized identity. The products combined in the new identity and access suite of products are designed to help organizations secure […]
Microsoft is urging administrators to apply a workaround for a remote code execution vulnerability in Microsoft Support Diagnostic Tool (MSDT) that exists when the tool is called using the URL protocol from a calling application such as Microsoft Word. According to Microsoft, attackers who successfully exploit the bug, tracked as CVE-2022-30190, can run arbitrary code […]
FREE Downloadable resources from TechDecisions provide timely insight into the issues that IT, A/V, and Security end-users, managers, and decision makers are facing in commercial, corporate, education, institutional, and other vertical markets
View all Guides
Get your latest project featured on TechDecisions Project of the Week. Submit your work once and it will be eligible for all upcoming weeks.
Enter Today!