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Practical Protection: Hardening Against Midnight Blizzard-Style Attacks

Paul Robichaux — Tue, 23 Jan 2024 11:00:00 +0000

You might be at risk for a similar attack to Microsoft's Midnight Blizzard attack. In this blog, Paul Robichaux discusses what happened and how to avoid this in your organization.

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Security updates released for Exchange and SharePoint Servers 2010 to 2019

Steve Goodman — Wed, 06 Jan 2021 07:00:54 +0000

In this blog, Steve Goodman explains the latest security updates and provides links to download the latest updates.

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The New Office 365 Network Launches with Some User Experience Challenges to Solve

Paul Cunningham — Fri, 15 Jul 2016 16:37:30 +0000

Microsoft has publicly announced that the Yammer-based Office 365 network is being moved to a new forum based on the Lithium community platform. The move is not being received very well by the community.

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How Do You Feel About Microsoft Ending the TechNet Subscription?

Paul Cunningham — Thu, 04 Jul 2013 02:37:23 +0000

Microsoft has announced that they are ending the popular TechNet Subscription service. How does this impact you as an IT professional?

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Microsoft or Apple: Which Company Should Acquire RIM?

Paul Cunningham — Fri, 29 Jun 2012 12:58:16 +0000

Should Apple try to win the enterprise mobility space by acquiring the struggling RIM, or should Microsoft take them over and deny Apple the chance?

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Microsoft TechEd Australia 2011

Paul Cunningham — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 13:08:47 +0000

I spent most of last week at Microsoft TechEd Australia 2011, which was held on the Gold Coast in Queensland, Australia.

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Poll: Is the Cloud a Threat to Your Job?

Paul Cunningham — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 01:00:54 +0000

What does Microsoft's cloud vision and big focus on developers mean for you? Are you worried about the cloud taking away your job?

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The Simplest Improvement to the MS Help and Support Site

Paul Cunningham — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 04:03:23 +0000

This one simple change could really improve the Microsoft Help and Support site for IT workers doing remote server support.

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Security descriptor error during Exchange Server 2007 schema extension

Paul Cunningham — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 03:19:00 +0000

During Exchange Server 2007 schema extension you may encounter a security descriptor error which will cause setup to fail.

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Steve Riley on hypervisor attacks

Paul Cunningham — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 07:42:15 +0000

You have to ask: is there malware on my system? You can be 100 per cent certain there is no malware that you can detect, but less than 100 per cent certain that there is no malware at all. Now, ladies and gentlemen, isn’t this true of every computer we already have? There is […]

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