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Accenture’s bold, large-scale embrace of GitHub Copilot—backed by a structured Microsoft Learn training pipeline and a gamified enablement program—has rapidly moved the consulting giant from pilot to production, equipping thousands of developers with AI-assisted coding tools and creating a...

CellTrust’s SL2 is now listed in Microsoft AppSource and the Microsoft Teams store, bringing its enterprise-grade mobile messaging capture and compliance tooling directly into the Microsoft collaboration stack and making it easier for regulated organisations to deploy mobile communications...

A new wave of skepticism is sweeping through the IT security world following revelations by renowned German researchers who have cast serious doubt on the safety of Windows Hello for business use. The much-touted biometric authentication system, a showcase feature in both Windows 10 and Windows...

Security Boulevard’s new roundup of the “Top 15 SSO Providers 2025” is a handy entry point for anyone modernizing authentication, but several pricing notes and protocol claims need updating—and Windows shops in particular should weigh some very specific trade-offs around Entra ID, AD FS...

HID is bringing enterprise-grade passkeys to the mainstream, unveiling a refreshed line of FIDO2 authenticators alongside a new Enterprise Passkey Management (EPM) service designed to provision, monitor, and revoke credentials centrally at scale. The announcement introduces redesigned Crescendo...

Identity research published in July surfaces two sobering truths for Windows shops: attackers can now bypass dMSA authentication in Windows Server 2025 to mass‑generate service account passwords for lateral movement, and misgoverned first‑party apps in Microsoft Entra ID can be abused to...

Small and mid-sized businesses are in a race they didn’t sign up for: keep up with a threat landscape that moves faster than budgets, hiring pipelines, and legacy architectures. A recent trade feature made the case plainly—SMBs must get serious about network security and consolidation if they...

Microsoft has recently released Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26200.5733 (KB5062673) to the Dev Channel, introducing several enhancements aimed at improving user experience and system functionality. File Explorer Enhancements For users signed in with a work or school account (Entra ID), File...

For organizations contemplating a migration from Windows 10 domain-joined and co-managed devices to a truly cloud-native Windows 11 environment using Microsoft Intune, the path is now both clearer and more pressing than ever. The momentum behind Microsoft’s cloud management tools, especially...

Windows 10’s looming end of support has triggered urgent conversations in IT departments worldwide. As October 14, 2025 rapidly approaches, enterprises are facing a critical question: should they invest in Extended Security Updates (ESUs) for lingering Windows 10 devices, or move decisively to...

The looming end of support for Windows 10 is compelling businesses of all sizes to reassess their workstation strategies, and Microsoft’s Windows Autopatch groups have emerged as a centerpiece for orchestrating the upgrade to Windows 11 at scale. This evolution is more than a technical...

Disaster recovery in the Microsoft 365 universe often conjures images of cloud-to-cloud backups, tiered failover architectures, and storage redundancy. But for experts with decades in the trenches, data durability starts much closer to home—with identity itself. As John O’Neill Sr. and Dave...

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...

Identity has rapidly become the new battleground in the fight for organizational security, especially as cybercriminals innovate to sidestep robust perimeter defenses. While firewalls, endpoint protection, and phishing detection continuously improve, attackers are leveraging stolen or...

Windows Autopatch is fast emerging as Microsoft’s headline response to the complex challenges of upgrading masses of enterprise PCs from Windows 10 to Windows 11, a transformation prompted in part by the looming support cut-off for Windows 10 scheduled for October 2025. In a landscape where IT...

Integrating a Windows 11 computer into an Active Directory (AD) environment represents an essential pillar for IT management in modern organizations. While home users might never encounter the need to join a domain, in business, education, and enterprise settings, domain integration is...

Tehama Technologies has unveiled Tehama Manager 3.0, now accessible on Microsoft Azure Marketplace. This release signifies a pivotal advancement in secure virtual desktop solutions, particularly for enterprises and Microsoft resellers aiming to optimize their Microsoft investments. Seamless...

Receiving an email from Microsoft that demands payment to keep an unfamiliar account alive is a scenario that would set off alarm bells for even the most seasoned tech users. The moment a message arrives that combines phrases like "Action required," "make a purchase," and an apparent threat of...

Windows Autopilot stands as a transformative technology in the landscape of Windows device deployment, enabling IT organizations to streamline, automate, and modernize how new devices are brought online and handed off to users. Long viewed as an essential tool for organizations seeking to...