PowerShell How-To
By Adam Bertram
Adam walks through how to proactively monitor an AD group for changes and execute a PowerShell script to take action when that happens.
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Azure Firewall, Microsoft's firewall-as-a-service security offering for organizations using Azure virtual machines, is getting several improvements that tap the company's Threat Intelligence service.
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The move toward passwordless Web authentications took another step this week, with the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) announcing that it now considers the Web Authentication (WebAuthn) specification to be an official standard.
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Organizations hoping to extend the viability of their Windows 7 Service Pack 1 (SP1) implementations can purchase Microsoft's Windows 7 Extended Security Updates plan starting April 1.
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Microsoft is coming out with a Windows Server IoT 2019 product, the company announced on Tuesday at the Embedded World conference in Nuremberg, Germany.
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Windows Defender ATP for Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 is now generally available, Microsoft announced last week, after being in preview since last spring.
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Microsoft this week described the steps for adapting "classic" alert rules to work with its new Azure Monitor service.
PowerShell How-To
By Adam Bertram
The GUI is fine if you're only moving a few files, but for larger and more complex migrations, this built-in Windows utility is the way to go.
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Microsoft recently described its timeline for phasing out Secure Hash Algorithm-1 (SHA-1) in supported Windows systems, and for upgrading to SHA-2.
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Microsoft plans to make some changes to its Windows servicing lingo and management behavior when it releases Windows 10 version 1903 this spring.
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The latest quarterly release of Exchange Server includes "critical security" fixes and also marks significant changes to the architectures of all supported versions.
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Windows 10 versions 1803 and 1709 now have support for MSIX, Microsoft's new packaging format for application software.
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Microsoft recently made the case against organizations using Internet Explorer as their default browser.
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A Microsoft Tech Community post is urging organizations to use caution when using Microsoft's tools to manage Windows updates.
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An updated guide for managing speculative execution side-channel attacks was issued recently by the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA).