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Microsoft’s enterprise backup story just took a meaningful step: Windows Backup for Organizations — the tenant-scoped backup and restore experience Microsoft built to ease device refreshes and large-scale Windows migrations — is being exposed to Intune administrators and moving into wider...

Monotch has made its TLEX® Interchange available on the Microsoft Azure Marketplace, opening a fast path for public authorities, integrators, and infrastructure owners to deploy a standards-aligned, cloud-native data exchange engine for connected mobility and C-ITS projects without building...

Microsoft's public posture toward Windows Mobile has quietly shifted from product-led ambition to maintenance-mode realism: the company will keep the platform alive for security patches, enterprise deployments and compatibility with Windows 10's broader ecosystem, but it will no longer...

Microsoft’s support clock for Windows 10 has a hard stop: after October 14, 2025, Microsoft will no longer issue routine security or feature updates for Windows 10, and millions of PCs will face a growing security and compatibility risk unless owners act — by upgrading to Windows 11, enrolling...

If you use Microsoft 365, updating your password regularly is one of the quickest — and most effective — ways to reduce your exposure to account takeover, phishing, and password-spraying attacks. This guide walks through three fast, practical ways to change a Microsoft 365 password (personal...

Hitachi Solutions Europe’s Proof of Concept (PoC) that let Microsoft applications — including Power Platform, Dynamics 365 and Microsoft Copilot — operate on live, sensitive case data stored in Amazon Web Services (AWS) without copying or moving that data represents a practical leap for secure...

A publicly exposed appsettings.json containing Azure Active Directory (Entra ID) application credentials has opened a direct, programmatic path into affected tenants — a single misconfigured JSON file acting as a master key for cloud estates and enabling attackers to exchange leaked...

A publicly exposed appsettings.json file that contained Azure Active Directory application credentials has created a direct, programmatic attack path into affected tenants — a misconfiguration that can let attackers exchange leaked ClientId/ClientSecret pairs for OAuth 2.0 access tokens and then...

Microsoft Active Directory remains the single most critical identity service in most enterprises—and in 2025 the vendor landscape for Active Directory backup and forest recovery has crystallised around a small set of purpose‑built products that go well beyond system‑state snapshots. The...

Microsoft has pushed targeted Out‑of‑Box Experience (OOBE) updates for Windows 11 in late August 2025—delivering KB5065813, KB5065847 and KB5065848—to change how new and freshly imaged devices handle day‑one servicing and enrollment during initial setup. Background Microsoft has been reworking...

Microsoft’s new Windows Backup for Organizations lands in the enterprise as a tightly scoped, Intune-integrated way to preserve Windows settings and Microsoft Store app lists in the cloud — but it is not a replacement for disk imaging, file-level backups, or full disaster recovery. Background /...

The last months of Windows 10’s lifecycle are producing a flurry of modest but strategically important updates — and Microsoft’s September preview, rolled out as KB5063842, reads like a maintenance and migration playbook rather than a feature-packed refresh. The patch fixes a handful of...

Microsoft has published KB5065813 — an out‑of‑box experience (OOBE) update for Windows 11, versions 22H2 and 23H2 — on August 26, 2025, delivering two tightly related outcomes: first, a platform change that enables Windows quality updates to be taken during OOBE for eligible managed devices; and...

Whether you’re buying a new PC, upgrading an old one, or trying to avoid paying twice for an OS you don’t need, the practical difference between Windows 11 Home and Windows 11 Pro comes down to three real-world questions: what hardware will you run, how much remote and virtualization control do...

Windows 11 will now, in some scenarios, download and install updates automatically while a device is still in the Out‑Of‑Box Experience (OOBE), a change that promises better day‑one security for new machines but also raises practical, operational and privacy tradeoffs for both consumers and IT...

Microsoft’s Exchange team has given hybrid administrators a clear-but-urgent migration mandate: switch to the dedicated Exchange hybrid app and update on‑prem servers now, or face temporary disruptions in September and October followed by a permanent enforcement that will stop rich coexistence...

Thanks for sharing that Windows Report guide (published August 22, 2025). How would you like me to help with it? Summarize it in plain English? Validate and expand it with deeper, step‑by‑step troubleshooting (including enterprise/GPO/proxy cases)? Apply the fixes to your exact setup and walk...

Board’s Microsoft alliance — crowned by a Solutions Partner designation and deeper Azure integration — recasts the company from a niche EPM vendor into a credible contender for AI-driven, enterprise-scale planning workflows. Background Board announced availability of the Board Enterprise...

Microsoft has quietly but decisively closed one of the more embarrassing security gaps in everyday office life: printing confidential documents and walking away. The company's Universal Print service now offers a fully supported Pull print capability — marketed as Universal Print anywhere —...

A Microsoft Security Update Guide entry for CVE-2025-33051 describes an information disclosure vulnerability affecting Microsoft Exchange Server, and the appearance of that CVE on the vendor’s advisory should put any on‑premises Exchange administrator on high alert. At the time of writing...