A new era of cyber resilience for Microsoft 365 has arrived as Rubrik and Sophos announce a landmark partnership designed to redefine how organizations protect, recover, and govern their cloud data assets. By bringing together Rubrik’s advanced data security and recovery capabilities with...
When cloud users place their trust in hyperscale providers, the expectation is one of robust reliability, seamless patch management, and minimal service interruptions—especially for mission-critical workloads. This social contract between enterprise and service provider is now under scrutiny...
Disaster resilience in the cloud era is often painted as a technical sprint towards ever-better backups, clever failovers, and bulletproof storage replication. But beneath the shiny surface of business continuity lies a quieter, sometimes overlooked foundational truth: identity is the keystone...
When it comes to disaster recovery in Microsoft 365, much of the conversation historically has revolved around technical redundancies: backup strategies, automated failover, and robust data protection mechanisms. Yet, as underscored by industry experts John O’Neill Sr. and Dave Kawula during a...
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As the final countdown approaches for Windows 10's end of support, IT teams across industries confront a pivotal, high-risk moment that demands not only urgency but also precision and buy-in at every level of the organization. The October support deadline looms as both a technical and business...
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Cloud migration is no longer a mere option for ambitious enterprises; it’s the engine powering digital transformation, making businesses more agile, scalable, and ready to capitalize on artificial intelligence. Among cloud providers jockeying for enterprise workloads, Microsoft Azure is rapidly...
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Microsoft has announced a significant policy change affecting organizations using legacy versions of Exchange Server. Starting October 1, 2025, the company will block native public folder migrations from Exchange Server 2010 and earlier to Exchange Online. This move is part of Microsoft's...
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In the fast-evolving landscape of enterprise IT, the challenges of managing Microsoft environments have grown both in complexity and urgency. The shifting patterns of hybrid work, relentless security threats, and the ever-expanding catalog of Microsoft 365 and Azure services have put IT leaders...
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On July 29, 2015, Microsoft unveiled Windows 10, marking a significant shift in its operating system strategy. Departing from the traditional model of releasing major OS versions every few years, Windows 10 introduced the concept of "Windows as a service," delivering continuous updates and...
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Microsoft is currently experiencing a significant outage affecting the Microsoft 365 Admin Center, rendering administrators unable to access essential management tools. This issue, which began on July 24, 2025, has persisted into the following day, marking the second such incident this week and...
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Microsoft 365, the backbone of productivity for much of the modern business world, continues to face the relentless pressure of delivering always-on, global cloud services at scale. Yet, recent events underscore the inherent fragility of even the most robust platforms, as an ongoing outage has...
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As Windows 10 approaches its end-of-support deadline in October, a significant moment of transformation and challenge is unfolding across the global IT landscape, especially for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). The coming transition to Windows 11 is often heralded by industry analysts...
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Windows 11 continues to redefine the landscape of personal and enterprise computing with its version 24H2, rolling out a suite of innovations that further strengthen the operating system’s resilience and minimize downtime for users and administrators alike. With the introduction of a radically...
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Microsoft’s ongoing quest to strengthen Power Pages security has taken a notable step forward with the launch of the Azure managed Bot Protection rule—an innovation promising to reshape how organizations defend their sites from the surging tide of automated threats. Website owners face...
Microsoft’s security response apparatus was put to the test yet again this July, following the public disclosure and exploitation of multiple high-severity vulnerabilities impacting on-premises SharePoint Server deployments across a spectrum of enterprise, government, and regulated industries...
Few tasks in modern IT are as critical as ensuring reliable and comprehensive backups for Windows Server environments. In an era where downtime can devastate business operations and ransomware attacks pose daily threats, choosing the right backup software is no longer a matter of simple...
For IT administrators and business leaders still running on-premises Exchange Server or Skype for Business servers, the coming months signal a period of both opportunity and urgency. Microsoft has announced a crucial extension in support for select versions of these workplace cornerstones...
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Microsoft has announced a critical update regarding the support lifecycle of its Exchange Server and Skype for Business products. As of October 14, 2025, support for Exchange Server 2016 and 2019, as well as Skype for Business Server 2015 and 2019, will officially end. To assist organizations in...
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In the constantly shifting terrain of enterprise IT, organizations face mounting pressure to modernize legacy workloads and embrace cloud-native architectures, all while minimizing business disruption. Among the most mission-critical assets in this transition are SQL Server databases—backbones...
For decades, the rhythm of corporate IT has followed a familiar pattern: Microsoft sets an end date for operating system support, and the world scrambles to adapt. This time, with Windows 10's end-of-support looming in October, the stakes feel both higher and—surprisingly for some—much more...
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