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  1. March 2025 Windows Update: Critical Patch Highlights and Security Best Practices

    With security rapidly evolving as a top concern in the Windows ecosystem, the March 2025 Windows Update stands as a crucial reminder of both the complexity and urgency in maintaining safe digital environments. This update cycle brings to the forefront an “urgent” alert, emphasizing the severe...
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  2. Mastering ActiveX Controls in Office Security: Troubleshooting & Future Moves

    When it comes to the Byzantine world of Office security settings, no feature brings sysadmins and IT pros to their knees quite like the saga of ActiveX controls. If you’ve ever had the “pleasure” of untangling why two employees, with identical systems, wind up on opposite ends of the ActiveX...
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  3. Microsoft Phases Out ActiveX: What It Means for Your Office Security & Modern Workflow Transition

    When Microsoft finally decides to pull the plug on an ancient bit of technology, you can almost hear the collective sigh—from hackers (of frustration) and IT veterans (of delayed relief). Such is the story with ActiveX. If you haven’t crossed paths with it, consider yourself lucky—or possibly...
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  4. Microsoft Disables ActiveX by Default in Office 2024: Enhancing Security and Phasing Out Legacy Tech

    Microsoft Disables ActiveX by Default in Microsoft 365 and Office 2024: The End of a Risky Era Microsoft is pulling a decisive security lever by disabling ActiveX controls by default in Windows versions of Microsoft 365 and Office 2024 applications. This change, rolling out imminently, aims to...
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  5. Microsoft 365 Disables ActiveX by Default: A Major Security Move

    Microsoft is making a bold move that aims to significantly reduce one of Office’s longstanding vulnerabilities. In a bid to enhance security and protect users, Microsoft 365 for Windows is set to disable ActiveX content by default in its flagship applications—Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Visio...
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  6. Microsoft Blocks ActiveX in Office Apps by Default to Boost Security and Reduce Risks

    Microsoft Tightens Security by Blocking ActiveX in Office Apps by Default Microsoft has taken a decisive step to enhance the security of its Office suite on Windows by making it considerably harder to enable ActiveX controls. This move targets the Windows versions of popular productivity...
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  7. March 2023 Microsoft Patch Tuesday: 58 Vulnerabilities Fixed

    Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday for March has unleashed a veritable arsenal of security updates to plug 58 vulnerabilities across Windows, Office, and Edge—a potent reminder that even the most trusted ecosystems require constant vigilance. For Windows users, both home and corporate, the message is...
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    Windows 10 Bitlocker benefits for PCs that dont leave the office?

    We have a few laptops in our office that we are looking at putting some encryption on as they often leave the office. Bitlocker seems the best solution with it already on Windows 10 and free. I just wonder is Bitlocker worth putting onto the desktop PCs that are in the office and don't ever...
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  9. Windows 7 Use a Nerf Gun, Kinect Skeletal Tracking, and a Turret to protect your office!

    Dan and Clint stop by the Tech with Tina show to demo the Link Removed-Enabled Turrett! The turrett uses skeletal tracking to detect if someone is in your office, it pans the gun toward the intruder and then uses a Phidget relay board to complete a circuit with a Nerf-brand Dart Tag SwarmFire...
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