Category Archives: What's New
TODO: Require MFA from four more Azure AD Roles through your Conditional Access Policies
As part of MC224734, Microsoft has communicated publicly that they are requiring multi-factor authentication (MFA) from four more Azure AD privileged roles through the Security Defaults functionality. Organizations leveraging Conditional Access to require MFA from privileged accounts should take note. About Security Defaults Security Defaults is an Identity security feature. When enabled, it requires […]
What's New in Azure Active Directory for October 2020
Azure Active Directory is Microsoft's Identity Management-as-a-Service solution, offering seamless access, easy collaboration, efficiency in IT processes and improved security and compliance. In its Release Notes for Azure Active Directory, Microsoft communicated the following planned, new and changed functionality for Azure Active Directory for October 2020: What’s Planned Azure AD On-Premises Hybrid Agents Impacted by […]
Windows 10, version 20H2 build 19042 introduces five new Group Policy settings
On October 20th, 2020, Microsoft released Windows 10, version 20H2 build 19042 to Visual Studio Subscribers and organizations with access to the Software Download Center and the Volume Licensing Service Center. This version is also known as Windows 10 ‘October 2020 Update’. This Windows version introduces five new Group Policy settings. New Group Policy […]
Identity-related new features in Windows 10, version 20H2 build 19042
Yesterday, Microsoft released Windows 10, version 20H2 build 19042 to Visual Studio Subscribers and organizations with access to the Software Download Center and the Volume Licensing Service Center. This version is also known as Windows 10 ‘October 2020 Update’. It’s time to look at the new Identity-related features in this version of Windows 10: […]
What’s New in Azure Active Directory in September 2020
Azure Active Directory is Microsoft's Identity Management-as-a-Service solution, offering seamless access, easy collaboration, efficiency in IT processes and improved security and compliance. In its Release Notes for Azure Active Directory, Microsoft communicated the following planned, new and changed functionality for Azure Active Directory for September 2020, on top of the announcements from Microsoft Ignite 2020: […]
A Recap of Identity-related Announcements from Microsoft Ignite 2020
Microsoft organized Ignite 2020 as a free digital event between Tuesday September 22nd and Thursday September 24th. Ignite is Microsoft’s yearly event for IT Professionals and developers. At Microsoft Ignite they connect with IT leaders from around the world. They hear from industry thought-leaders on the changing landscape of IT, they find new technology partners […]
RoboCopy supports Copying Files over SMB with Compression on Windows Server 2019, and beyond
Microsoft is working hard to add features to Windows Server vNext, but is not forgetting about the vast majority of organizations that run Windows Server 2019 and might like the same functionality. The feature that I want to discuss with you today is SMB compression with robocopy.exe. SMB Compression with Robocopy The announcement for Windows […]
What’s New in Azure Active Directory in August 2020
Azure Active Directory is Microsoft's Identity Management-as-a-Service solution, offering seamless access, easy collaboration, efficiency in IT processes and improved security and compliance. In its Release Notes for Azure Active Directory, Microsoft communicated the following planned, new and changed functionality for Azure Active Directory for August 2020: What’s Planned Updates to Azure Multi-Factor Authentication Server firewall […]
Azure Multi-Factor Authentication Server 8.0.5.1 is here
Roughly 6 months ago, on February 26th, 2020, we saw the release of Microsoft Multi-factor Authentication Server (MFA Server) version 8.0.4. Now it’s time for an update to Microsoft’s product that allows organization to add multi-factor authentication to RADIUS-, AD FS-, IIS-based and other on-premises authentication scenarios. This week, Microsoft released version 8.0.5.1. What’s […]
Veeam Backup and Replication version 10a adds support for the latest technology
Two weeks ago, we saw the release of Veeam Backup and Replication version 10a. Veeam Backup & Replication 10a is the newer build of version 10. This update also includes all fixes from v10 Cumulative Patch 1 and v10 Cumulative Patch 2 for v10, and supersedes those patches. What’s New Veeam Backup and Replication 10a […]
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