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"Mastering Microsoft 365 Defender" eBook
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Five Microsoft Zero Trust Tactics for Securing Azure AD
The Petri IT Knowledgebase is made possible by our Sponsors. Thank you, Object First. For any modern enterprise that uses Azure Active Directory (now Microsoft Entra ID) to manage user and service access to cloud resources, it’s hard to escape the term Zero Trust (ZT), which implies that your organization must have a layered approach to security.
Ultimate Comparison of Defender for Endpoint Features by OS [Updated August 2022]
This is the updated “matrix” of OS supported for the almost 80 features, services, and important components that make up Microsoft Defender for Endpoint. This follows up on my March 2022 release of the comparison. What’s new?
Updated March 2022: Ultimate Comparison of Defender for Endpoint Features by Operating System
It’s been about 5 months since I last updated my comparison of Defender for Endpoint features by OS. This is a “matrix” of the tons of features, services, and important components that make up Microsoft Defender for Endpoint. Three months later, it’s overdue an update. So here it is 🙂 I’ve also decided to rename it to The Ultimate Comparison of MDE Features by OS… because renaming’s what we do, right?
Cloud Conversations - Matt Zorich on Azure Sentinel and KQL
Cloud Conversations is a weekly podcast that we’ll be featuring here on Petri.
Cloud Conversations: Pragati Jain on Power Platform & Community events
Cloud Conversations is a weekly podcast that we’ll be featuring here on Petri. It’s about everything connected to cloud computing, including technologies like Azure, Microsoft 365, Power Platform, Microsoft Endpoint Manager (MEM), Microsoft Defender, Windows, Intune, and much more! Cloud Conversations – Pragati Jain on Power Platform & Community events Pragati Jain is a Microsoft Data Platform MVP, Event organizer, Manager at the Power BI UK User group, conference speaker, and blogger.
Cloud Conversations: Sara Fennah on How to Prepare for Microsoft Exams
Cloud Conversations is a weekly podcast that we’ll be featuring here on Petri. It’s about everything connected to cloud computing, including technologies like Azure, Microsoft 365, Power Platform, Microsoft Endpoint Manager (MEM), Microsoft Defender, Windows, Intune, and much more! Cloud Conversations – Sara Fennah on how to prepare for Microsoft exams Sara Fennah is a Microsoft 365 consultant, trainer, MCT, MVP, blogger and holds over 40 Microsoft accreditations.
Cloud Conversations - Sara Lagerquist on Power Automate
Cloud Conversations is a weekly podcast that we’ll be featuring here on Petri. It’s about everything connected to cloud computing, including technologies like Azure, Microsoft 365, Power Platform, Microsoft Endpoint Manager (MEM), Microsoft Defender, Windows, Intune, and much more! Cloud Conversations – Sara Lagerquist on Power Automate In this episode, Kat and Ru catch up Sara Lagerquist, a Microsoft Business Application MVP, based in Stockholm, Sweden.
Cloud Conversations - Securing Microsoft 365 in SMBs and Defender for Business
Cloud Conversations – Securing Microsoft 365 in SMBs and Defender for Business In this week’s episode, Alex Fields MVP joins us to chat about… Securing Microsoft 365 in small-medium sized businesses The new Microsoft Defender for Business and his role in it ITProMentor.com and his courses + books The Microsoft 365 DMB Data Protection Toolkit More on Cloud Conversations The podcast is hosted by Peter Rising, Ru Campbell and Kat Greenan, all Petri contributors; and Azure McFarlane, a Microsoft...
Cloud Conversations - Season 2 Kickoff
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Microsoft Office 365 Prices Up 20% for Monthly Subscriptions
Microsoft is introducing the New Commerce Experience (NCE) subscription model for its Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) partners in January 2022. This change will raise the subscription price for Microsoft 365 monthly subscriptions by 20 percent, according to a report from CNBC.
Patch Tuesday December 2021
This month, a flaw in the Apache Log4j library causes panic, Microsoft patches 67 new CVEs, 7 of which are rated Critical. And Adobe delivers a boat load of patches to finish off the year in style. So, let’s get started! Apache Log4j remote code execution vulnerability Let’s start this month by talking about Log4Shell (Log4j), a vulnerability in a Java logging library called Apache Log4j.
Cloud Conversations Episode 35 - Lesley Crook on Viva, and a Day in the Life with Teams
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Cloud Conversations Episode 34 - Sophie Dimelow on Women in Tech and Community
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Cloud Conversations EP33 - Sheryl Netley on Power Platform
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What is Microsoft Defender for Business?
On November 2nd 2021, Microsoft announced Microsoft Defender for Business. The announcement comes following a series of rebranding exercises into the “Microsoft Defender for” fold. What is Microsoft Defender for Business? Microsoft Defender for Business is a new endpoint security solution that will be available soon in preview. Defender for Business is designed to bring enterprise-grade endpoint security to small and medium sized organizations with up to 300 employees.
What is Microsoft Information Protection and How Does it Work?
There are a lot of compliance-based services across Microsoft 365’s licensing options. At the highest level, a Microsoft 365 E5 subscription for a tenant gives administrators a ton of toys to play with. The naming, marketing, and placement of the capabilities you get can be fuzzy. In this article, we’ll tackle Microsoft Information Protection (MIP), explaining exactly what it is and the many services, features, and capabilities that comprise it. What is Microsoft Information Protection?
What is Microsoft Information Protection and How Does it Work?
There are a lot of compliance-based services across Microsoft 365’s licensing options. At the highest level, a Microsoft 365 E5 subscription for a tenant gives administrators a ton of toys to play with. The naming, marketing, and placement of the capabilities you get can be fuzzy. In this article, we’ll tackle Microsoft Information Protection (MIP), explaining exactly what it is and the many services, features, and capabilities that comprise it. What is Microsoft Information Protection?
Microsoft Teams New Features Announced in November 2021 at Ignite
Teams is one of the fastest growing products Microsoft has ever released, so it shouldn’t come as a surprise that there was a big focus on Teams at the November edition of Ignite. In this article, I’m going to cover all the important news in brief. New Microsoft Teams chat features Microsoft Teams chat recently got the ability to send quoted replies.
Microsoft Loop is Rebrand of Fluid Framework
At its Ignite conference yesterday, Microsoft announced that some parts of its Fluid Framework are being rebranded as Microsoft Loop. Or at least some parts of it. First announced in 2019, the Fluid Framework provides users with what Microsoft describes as ‘atomic units of productivity’ that can be shared and worked on independently of a parent application.
What's New with Windows - October 2021 Edition
Windows 11 is now generally available, there are already fixes for a long list of bugs and performance issues with AMD processors, and Android apps come to users in the Windows 11 Beta Channel. Plus, there’s much more of what’s new with Windows in October 2021, so let’s get started! Windows 11 is now generally available October 4th saw Microsoft make Windows 11 generally available.
Microsoft Brings HTTP/3 and a Big Speed Boost to Exchange Online
One of the most important infrastructure features Microsoft released with the recent Windows Server 2022 is HTTP/3. Since hitting the ‘General Availability’ milestone this past September, the Windows Server team has partnered with the Microsoft 365 team in starting a phased upgrade of the front-end Exchange Online servers with Windows Server 2022. Microsoft started with https://outlook.office.com/.
Windows 11 ISO Download
In this quick guide, I’m going to show you how to download the Windows 11 ISO image file, which you can use to install Windows 11 in a virtual machine (VM) or use to create your own installation media. If you want to install Windows 11 in a VM or create your own installation media, then the best option is to download the ISO file directly from Microsoft.
What Are the New Accessibility Features in Windows 11?
Accessibility is one of the fundamental elements required when creating inclusive technology. When developing a platform that over a billion people worldwide use daily, it’s vital to understand the impact poor usability and accessibility can have. Poor usability can cause irritation for the average user, but it can be a complete blocker to those who have additional requirements or needs, preventing enjoyment, learning, employment, or creativity.
Microsoft is Bringing Update Stack Packages to Windows 11
As part of Windows 11 Insider Preview build 22478 in the Dev Channel, Microsoft is starting to test a new way to update the servicing stack in Windows. What are Update Stack Packages? Update Stack Packages deliver changes to the Windows 11 update experience before a monthly cumulative update (CU), or yearly feature update, is pushed out to Windows 11 devices. Update Stack Packages shouldn’t be confused with servicing stack updates or feature experience packs.
Microsoft Defender for Endpoint - Important Service and Endpoint Settings You Should Configure Right Now
Microsoft Defender for Endpoint (MDE) is much more than a traditional antivirus service. Now being offered in Plan 1 and Plan 2, the full offering you get with Plan 2 not only provides antivirus capabilities but also extended detection and response, attack surface reduction rules to harden the OS against common threat mechanisms, and threat and vulnerability management (TVM) to monitor first and third-party patch and exploit status. That’s not even all of it.
Patch Tuesday October 2021 – Microsoft Fixes Windows Kernel Zero-Day and Critical Bug in Exchange Server | Petri IT Knowledgebase
This month’s Patch Tuesday for includes a cumulative update (CU) for Windows 11, which was made generally available October 4th. In total Microsoft released patches addressing 71 CVEs in Windows, Edge, Exchange Server, .NET Core, SharePoint Server, and many other products. Two of the CVEs patched this month are rated Critical, and 68 Important. And three bugs are zero-days, with one apparently being actively exploited in the wild.
How to Install the New Microsoft Defender for Endpoint Agent on Windows Server 2012 R2 and 2016
New protection capabilities for Microsoft Defender for Endpoint (MDE) customers landed in public preview, Oct 7th 2021, for Windows Server 2012 R2 and Windows Server 2016. With the public preview, Windows Server 2012 R2 and 2016 gain ‘functional equivalence‘ to Windows Server 2019, thanks to a new agent that is being described as the ‘unified solution’.
Patch Tuesday – July 2021 | Petri
Microsoft patches 103 security vulnerabilities this month, including PrintNightmare, a Windows DNS Server bug, 3 elevation of privilege vulnerabilities in the Windows kernel, and much more. Windows and Windows Server Let’s start with the bug that surfaced earlier in July month called PrintNightmare. PrintNightmare Microsoft issued an out-of-band cumulative update (CU) for a remote execution flaw (CVE-2021-34527), which allows local privilege escalation, in the Windows Print Spooler service.
Guide: Getting Started with Zero Trust Security in Microsoft 365
Zero Trust is a security model that can be applied to Microsoft 365. It focuses on improving security by verifying and testing both the identity and device before granting access to resources. You can think of Zero Trust as a way of working, wherein you take it for granted that every user and device accessing your environment – in or out the network – to be compromised, and hence, take actions to confirm the validity of each of those.
First Look at the New Office UI that Matches Windows 11
Microsoft is updating the ribbon for Office to match Windows 11’s rounded corner design. When Microsoft released the first build of Windows 11 last month, the company also indicated that they would be updating Office to match the design of Windows 11. While the initial release arrived a few days later than anticipated, the company has started to push the visual update to those participating in the Office Insider program.
What's New with Windows – June 2021 Edition | Petri
Microsoft launches Windows 11, Windows Server 2022 gets hotpatching, and ARM64EC promises to make it easier for developers to port x64 apps to ARM. It’s a bumper news month and possibly the most interesting in many years for Windows. Microsoft launched Windows 11 at a special event on June 24th. And while a leaked build surfaced on the Internet a week before the event, that didn’t dampen enthusiasm for Microsoft’s reimagined version of Windows. So, let’s get started.
Guide: How to Plan for Microsoft Defender Endpoint Deployments and Migrations
When approaching a rollout of Microsoft Defender for Endpoint (MDE) for your organization, it can be difficult to know where to start. In my last article, MDE was explained at a high level: what it is and why you should care. This time, we will get into the weeds of how to actually plan for its usage. Over the past few years, MDE’s scope has increased massively: it is now available in some form across not only Windows and Windows Server, but also macOS, iOS, Android and Linux server distributions.
What's New with Azure– June 2021 Edition | Petri
July is here and we are halfway through the year. Am I the only one that feels like 2021 is zipping by? I have been working non-stop for the last 6 months preparing for and migrating legacy workloads from a data center to Microsoft Azure and I have barely had time to look up from my monitor. But that ends next week – I will be looking back on this series of articles and finding things that I need to start playing within the lab! And maybe I’ll try to get a gaming controller for my iPad.
What's New with Power Platform - June 2021
The year is halfway over! That is crazy to think about, so I won’t. Either way, welcome to the second half of the year where Power Platform continues to rise higher and higher like the mercury here in the Northern Hemisphere. I hope you are staying cool, sitting by the pool, reading all of these delightful updates. Though I will see most of them are very specific, nothing all-encompassing or earth-shattering this month. Power Apps adds support for NFC tags Very handy.
Microsoft Teams "2.0" Will Deliver Big Performance Improvements
Teams is the backbone of Microsoft’s modern communication platform and is the hub of productivity inside the Microsoft 365 suite of tools. But one of the problems with the application, as it exists today, is that it consumes a lot of resources that drag down performance. With Windows 11 that was announced today and a new Teams consumer experience in the OS, Microsoft is making big changes to the underlying components of the application to improve performance.
How to Upgrade from Windows Server 2019 Core to Windows Server 2022 Core
Continuing my mini-series on providing IT Pros valuable assistance and guides moving their workloads, roles, and Server-based applications to Windows Server 2022, here is my guide to upgrading, in-place, from Windows Server 2019 ‘Core’ to Windows Server 2022 ‘Core.’ Thankfully, the overall setup routine is similar to using the GUI (Desktop Experience) in Windows Server. But, there are some nuances and a few extra steps. Let’s get to it! Quick Background – What is ‘Core’? Now, now.
How to Use Known Issue Rollback to Fix Problems Caused by Windows Updates
The technology that underpins Known Issue Rollback first appeared in Windows 10 version 2004. Known Issue Rollback, or KIR for short, lets Microsoft and IT administrators quickly roll back non-security fixes that are causing functionality issues in Windows. Known Issue Rollback is designed to help Microsoft and organizations keep Windows devices secure but make sure users remain productive.
Understanding Microsoft Defender for Endpoint and How It Protects Your Data
Microsoft Defender for Endpoint (MDE, previously known as Microsoft Defender Advanced Threat Protection) is Microsoft’s endpoint security platform that goes far and beyond the traditional anti-malware engine and firewall to protect against the modern cybersecurity threats an organization faces. An evolving solution since it was first announced in 2016, MDE is part of the Microsoft Defender extended detection and response (XDR) service (an overview of the entire service is available here).
How to Disable the Cortana Services in Microsoft 365
Microsoft Teams speaker arriving later this year. Microsoft isn’t new to the Artificial Intelligence market. Those of us who have been in technology long enough remember Microsoft Bob, which gave Windows 3.1, Windows 95, and Windows NT a Graphical User Interface (GUI) a facelift and provided search companions to help make your life a bit easier. A lot has changed between the introduction of Microsoft Bob on the 10th of March 1995 and the 2nd of April 2014 when Microsoft introduced Cortana.
Microsoft Search Now Available in Windows 10
Microsoft Search is now integrated with Windows Search in Windows 10. Microsoft had been talking about this capability since 2018 but recently went quiet on the subject. So, I did a little digging and found that according to the Microsoft 365 roadmap, which you can find here, Microsoft Search for Windows 10 launched April 2021 and it is generally available worldwide. Microsoft Search and Windows 10 Microsoft Search is a capability built into Microsoft 365.
Microsoft Paints a Future of Meetings with Teams
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Guide: Limit Microsoft 365 Access to Corporate Devices with Conditional Access
World events since March 2020 have highlighted one of the key benefits of Office 365 and cloud-based SaaS services in general: they are available any time, any place, on any device. As the world was forced to work from home, Office 365 apps such as Teams, Outlook, SharePoint, and OneDrive could easily be accessed outwith the traditional company network, and even on non-company devices.
Patch Tuesday – May 2021 - Petri
This month Microsoft has released quite a low number of security patches for Windows. But there are still some nasty bugs that need your attention. Including a wormable bug in http.sys, a vulnerability in IE11, and a wireless networking flaw that could let an attacker disclose encrypted information. Windows and Windows Server This month’s cumulative update (CU) for Windows 10 includes a patch for an HTTP protocol stack remote code execution vulnerability (CVE-2021-31166).
Microsoft to Remove Adobe Flash from Windows and Server in July
While you may have fond memories of Flash from the games that ran in the browser, as the web matured, Flash did not. The technology evolved from being a tool used to build interactive components on the web to a significant security vulnerability. Microsoft has announced that starting in July, KB4577586 (the update to remove Adobe Flash Player) will be included in the latest cumulative update for Windows 10, versions 1607, and Windows 10, version 1507.
Everything You Need to Know About Windows – April 2021 - Petri
Microsoft prepares to release the Windows 10 May 2021 Update. The news and interests taskbar flyout is coming to older versions of Windows 10, and Microsoft adds Linux GUI app support to WSL in an Insider build. And there’s much more! So, let’s get started. Windows 10 ‘Known Issue Rollback’ fixes KB5001330 bug Microsoft released an update for Windows 10 this month to silently roll back changes made by KB5001330.
How to Install SUSE Enterprise Server in Windows 10
In this article, I’m going to show you how to use WSL to install SUSE Enterprise Server in Windows 10. There are two high-level steps to getting SUSE to run in Windows. The first is to install WSL 2. And secondly, to install the SUSE distribution from the Microsoft Store or command line.
How to Migrate Group Policy Windows Firewall Rules to Intune
As you make the move from Microsoft on-premises infrastructure to the cloud, you’ll move from Group Policy management of your endpoints to MDM management. This move isn’t always a “lift and shift” process because there isn’t always a 1-to-1 relationship between the settings available in Group Policy and those in Intune.
Microsoft Teams Hits 145 Million Daily Active Users
Microsoft has released their Q3 earnings release and the company posted big results yet again. It’s clear that the company is one of the big winners in the pandemic-induced digital transformational shift and Microsoft says that there are not any signs of slowing down. One of the many products that performed well for Microsoft during the past year has been Teams.
Never Mind, Microsoft Won’t Retire Top Senders and Recipient Report
Earlier this year, Microsoft announced that they had planned to retire the top senders and recipient report from Microsoft Defender for Office 365. While I do not know the exact thought process Microsoft went through when making this decision, they clearly didn’t anticipate the widespread backlash from its users. And it sounds like the feedback was heard as the company has announced that they will no longer kill this feature and its associated PowerShell cmdlets.
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