Microsoft is rolling out a new email alert feature to help IT administrators plan and deploy Windows feature and quality updates, with emails about known issues documented in the Windows release health section of the Microsoft 365 admin center. IT admins with a Windows or Microsoft 365 tenant, a subscription with access to Windows release […]
Microsoft is making several updates to Windows Autopatch to help busy admins automate the monthly Windows security patches, with new control features including a groups feature, new alerting and updated reporting. According to Microsoft, the new Autopatch features are available in public preview. They allow admins to configure updates to specific groups, stagger incremental rollouts […]
Microsoft is introducing cloud.microsoft, a new unified domain for Microsoft 365 apps and services designed to make it easier for IT to manage them and reduce end user complexity. According to the Redmond, Wash. IT powerhouse, it is bringing authenticated, user-facing Microsoft 365 apps onto a single, consistent and cohesive domain. Currently, there are dozens […]
Microsoft has announced several new security tools and capabilities in the days leading up to and during RSA Conference 2023, including new capabilities in Entra, new Microsoft Sentinel tools, new Defender features, application security and more. It’s not surprising that Microsoft–along with many other security and tech vendors–used RSA Conference 2023 to focus heavily on […]
The current version of Windows 10, version 22H2 will be the last version of Windows 10, Microsoft says, which effectively puts an end to any major feature updates for the operating system as the company becomes all-in on Windows 11. According to Microsoft, that version of Windows 10 will remain in support with monthly security […]
In response to the increasing usage of APIs by threat actors to breach data from cloud applications, Microsoft is rolling out a public preview of Defender for APIs, a new offering part of Microsoft’s Defender for Cloud platform. Through an integration of Defender for APIs with Azure API management, security teams can use the Defender […]
Microsoft continues to integrate the generative AI technology that underpins ChatGPT throughout its portfolio of enterprise tools, this time announcing that it is bringing the “Copilot” tool in the company’s employee experience and engagement product Viva later this year. Copilot in Microsoft Viva, the Redmond, Wash.-based IT giant says, takes advantage of next-generation AI to […]
Microsoft is reportedly investing a whopping $10 billion in OpenAI, the firm behind ChatGPT and DALL-E. The eight-year-old firm with no mainstream product or revenue model has dominated the news headlines ever since it released an AI Chatbot to market in November 2022. So, what is ChatGPT and what can it do? What is ChatGPT […]
Microsoft is hoping to address the security issue of emails sent to Exchange online from unsupported and unpatched Exchange Servers by enabling a transport-based enforcement system in Exchange Online that will throttle and then block emails from an unsupported server. The end goal is to encourage Microsoft customers to stop using persistently vulnerable versions of […]
Microsoft is bringing Windows 11 to HoloLens 2, adding the security, collaboration and other features of the company’s newest operating system to its industrial metaverse and mixed reality solution. According to Microsoft, security was a major driver in bringing Windows 11 to HoloLens 2, helping users of the mixed reality solution feel confident when building […]
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