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 […]
Microsoft has begun rolling out security defaults to existing Microsoft customers who have yet to roll out security defaults or Azure AD Conditional Access, helping tenants created before October 2019 better secure their IT environments. Microsoft introduced security defaults in the fall of 2019 for new tenants, which included multifactor authentication (MFA) and modern auth […]
Microsoft has released the public preview of access reviews for inactive users as part of Azure Active Directory (AD) Governance for organizations can take action to remove inactive accounts that could be leading to security risks. The feature is designed to help organizations deactivate accounts from former employees or contractors whose assignments have ended by […]
Microsoft is introducing new capabilities for developers looking to build collaborative apps for Teams and Microsoft 365, including the ability for participants to co-watch, co-edit, co-create and collaborate more directly in Teams meetings. The company unveiled the new capabilities during its annual Build conference, at which Microsoft introduced Live Share, a new feature that allows […]
Microsoft is holding its annual developer conference, Build, this week, and the company has already made dozens of announcements, including the new Microsoft Intelligent Data Platform that the company says fully integrates databases, analytics and governance and helps break down silos that exist between databases and analytics products. According to the company, the platform is […]
Microsoft says it has observed a 254% increase in activity over the last six months from an eight-year-old Linux trojan targeting Linux-based operating systems on cloud infrastructures and IoT devices. The malware, called XorDdos, is named after its attack method, denial of service on Linux endpoints and servers, in addition to XOR-based encryption for its […]
Microsoft now says Windows 11 is ready for all new, compatible PCs to be upgraded to the company’s shiny new version of its longtime Windows operating system, with the OS being recently designated for broad deployment. However, the problem is that most Windows devices just aren’t ready for the Windows 11 migration, according to digital […]
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