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Bitwarden’s vault can now unlock Windows 11 — letting users sign in to Entra ID–joined devices with passkeys stored in their Bitwarden vault and bringing phishing‑resistant, passwordless authentication to the Windows sign‑in screen. ps://bitwarden.com/blog/bitwarden-launches-passkey-management/)...

Bitwarden’s vault can now unlock the Windows desktop: users can authenticate to Windows 11 with passkeys stored in their Bitwarden vault, moving passkey support from web and app silos into the operating system sign‑in flow and promising a phishing‑resistant, passwordless path to the Windows lock...

Bitwarden’s vault can now unlock the Windows desktop, bringing synchronized, phishing‑resistant passkey sign‑in to Windows 11 users and enterprises — but the convenience comes with important technical tradeoffs and operational choices that IT teams must weigh before rolling it out. Overview...

Microsoft’s public preview of user‑bound user delegation SAS marks a pragmatic, identity‑centric tightening of Azure Storage access controls: SAS tokens can now be created so that they are only usable by a specific Microsoft Entra ID (Azure AD) principal, improving traceability, reducing...

Microsoft has pushed Windows 11 Builds 26100.7918 and 26200.7918 (KB5077241) to the Release Preview Channel, bringing a mix of small but meaningful user-facing improvements, important enterprise-oriented features, and a controversial—but long-awaited—security change that embeds Sysmon natively...

Microsoft’s upcoming enforcement change for Conditional Access in Entra ID is a clear pivot toward consistency and defense‑in‑depth: policies that target All resources will now be evaluated even when those policies include resource exclusions, and sign‑ins that request only minimal OpenID...

Microsoft is giving administrators and end users a second chance: if the opportunity to restore a preserved Windows environment was missed during the out‑of‑box experience (OOBE), Windows Backup for Organizations can now offer a first sign‑in restore that runs when the user signs in for the...

Microsoft has quietly expanded the enterprise-focused Windows Backup for Organizations to include a first sign-in restore experience, giving IT teams a second opportunity to restore a user's Windows settings and Microsoft Store app list at the very first interactive sign-in — not only during...

Microsoft’s Entra ID sign-in stack on Windows 11 is getting a significant under‑the‑hood refresh: WebView2 — the Chromium‑based embedded web control used across modern Windows apps — can now power Entra ID sign‑ins through the Web Account Manager (WAM). This change, delivered beginning with the...

Arctera’s latest maintenance refresh, Backup Exec 25.1, arrives as a focused, practical upgrade that treats identity protection, Microsoft 365 resilience and ransomware-hardened storage as first-class concerns — not optional extras. The release tightens integration between identity and data...

Microsoft’s long‑promised move to make identity the primary gateway for remote server access has taken a concrete step forward: Entra ID authentication for RDP inside the Azure portal is now available as a public preview for Azure Bastion sessions, allowing portal‑based RDP connections to use...

In a technology landscape where migrations to cloud platforms are routine but lasting operational success is rare, the profile of Karachi‑based cloud and infrastructure specialist Kelash in a national paper captures a practical truth: moving workloads is the easy part—keeping them secure...

In Pakistan’s shifting digital landscape, the work that keeps banks, hospitals, software houses, and universities running rarely makes headlines — but it is exactly this steady, unspectacular engineering that decides whether a migration to Microsoft Azure, Microsoft 365, or hybrid cloud becomes...

Microsoft’s latest push to make “agentic” AI an everyday productivity layer is no longer rhetoric — it’s a coordinated product, identity and governance play that stitches Copilot into Office, Edge, and enterprise tooling while giving IT teams the controls to manage fleets of AI agents at scale...

Pavan Davuluri’s short post on X — that “Windows is evolving into an agentic OS” — landed as a bruise to the Windows community more than a rallying cry, and the ripples still matter. Within hours the replies filled with blunt frustration: power users and developers pressed Microsoft on...

RSA’s new RSA ID Plus for Microsoft lineup — anchored by the RSA ID Plus M1 SKU now generally available on the Microsoft Azure Marketplace — is a deliberate attempt to layer phishing‑resistant, passwordless identity controls and operational resilience on top of Microsoft Entra ID, with a...

Druva’s latest expansion of Microsoft-focused capabilities aims to fold identity protection, cloud-native backup, and advanced cyber recovery into a single, fully managed platform—an aggressive push to make Microsoft 365, Entra ID, and Azure workload protection simpler, faster, and more...

Microsoft Azure and Microsoft 365 are not universally down on November 13, 2025 — but the question is understandable: a string of high‑visibility incidents over the last six weeks has left IT teams, admins and everyday users hypersensitive to any hiccup. Recent large outages tied to Azure Front...

Cayosoft’s new Guardian Protector brings always-on identity monitoring to teams that still treat Active Directory and Entra ID as the single most critical risk vector, promising real-time alerts, agentless deployment, and a freemium model that removes cost as the first barrier to better hybrid...

Microsoft’s latest product roadmap hints at a bold, arguably unsettling next step: AI agents that appear in corporate directories, receive email and Teams addresses, sit on org charts and act like “independent users” inside the enterprise — attending meetings, editing documents and autonomously...