policy management

  1. Edge Extensions Hygiene: Add, Disable, Remove with Privacy, Security, and Admin Tips

    Microsoft’s short, step-by-step support page for Microsoft Edge lays out the basics for adding, disabling, and removing extensions — but the topic matters far beyond a few clicks. Extensions shape privacy, performance, and security for millions of Windows users, and managing them properly is now...
  2. Barracuda SecureEdge: Windows-centric SASE for SMBs

    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...
  3. Microsegmentation in Zero Trust: Essential Guide for Enhanced Network Security

    Microsegmentation is rapidly emerging as a strategic linchpin within the broader adoption of zero trust architectures (ZTAs), fundamentally reshaping the way organizations across sectors perceive and manage network security. The recent release by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security...
  4. Microsoft Edge 138 Update: New AI Features Boost Productivity & Privacy

    Here is a summary of what’s new in Microsoft Edge Stable channel version 138, as highlighted in the inkl article and verified by other sources: Major New AI Features in Edge 138 1. Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat Summarization Context Menu Integration: You can now right-click on a web page and use...
  5. Xoralia Policy Management Solution Now on Microsoft AppSource: Enhance Compliance & Automation

    Content Formula’s Xoralia Policy Management Solution is now officially listed in Microsoft AppSource, marking a strategic milestone for both the solution provider and organizations seeking robust, Microsoft-integrated policy management capabilities. This latest development, as reported by...
  6. Microsoft's Enhanced CA Handling in Application Control for Business: Simplifying Trust Transitions

    The landscape of enterprise security is continually shaped by the challenge of maintaining trust in a rapidly evolving certificate ecosystem. As Windows environments become even more integral to critical business operations, Microsoft’s Application Control for Business—previously known as...
  7. Microsoft Overhauls Application Control CA Trust Management for 2025 Transition

    As enterprise security needs grow more complex and digital threats evolve, Microsoft continues to adapt its security framework accordingly. With the recent overhaul in Application Control for Business—formerly known as Windows Defender Application Control (WDAC)—organizations now face...
  8. Secure Password Deployment in Microsoft Edge for Business: Enhance Organization Security

    Here is a summarized explanation of "Introducing secure password deployment in Microsoft Edge for Business" based on the official Windows Blog post: What is Secure Password Deployment in Microsoft Edge for Business? Secure password deployment is a new, enterprise-grade feature that lets...
  9. Microsoft Entra Conditional Access Updates: Enhanced Security and Policy Management

    Microsoft has recently introduced significant enhancements to its Entra Conditional Access solution, aiming to streamline policy management and bolster organizational security. These updates include detailed per-policy reporting, a simulation API for policy testing, and stricter sign-in...
  10. Revolutionizing Enterprise Security: Unified Workload IAM in Microsoft Environments

    Across modern enterprise IT, the accelerating shift to hybrid and cloud environments has thrown a sharp spotlight on a long-standing security conundrum: how to manage identity and access not just for human users, but for the multitude of non-human workloads—applications, services, scripts, and...
  11. Understanding Windows Application Control’s New CA Handling Logic for Enhanced Security

    The latest evolution of Windows support for Application Control for Business introduces a significant and controversial overhaul: a new Certificate Authority (CA) handling logic designed to bolster software trust and compliance in modern enterprise environments. Users and administrators who rely...
  12. Microsoft OneDrive’s New Default Sync Feature: Security Risks & Management Strategies

    Microsoft’s OneDrive has long been a keystone in modern file synchronization, bridging desktops, laptops, and mobile devices for millions of users worldwide. Its adoption in both personal and professional realms has grown as digital collaboration transforms how—and where—work gets done. Yet, as...
  13. Windows 11 KB5055627 Update Brings AI Recall, Enhanced Search & Improved Accessibility

    If you’ve ever found yourself staring blankly at your desktop, unable to remember whether that critical spreadsheet was in your downloads folder, cloud storage, or perhaps just a fever dream, Microsoft feels your pain—and their latest Windows 11 KB5055627 update is here to help you (and your...
  14. Unexpected Windows 11 Upgrade Spree: How a Latent Bug Disrupted Enterprise Device Management

    It started, as these things so often do, with a little pop-up. For thousands of enterprise users—minding their own business, dutifully clicking through spreadsheets, crafting presentations, or maybe just hunting for that illusive TPS report—a sudden, unprovoked invitation lit up their screens...
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    Windows 10 IP security rules to IP security policy

    Hi, This is my first post and need some help with adding IP security rules to IP security policy. Setting IP security policies on local computer. We have already created IP security policy and blocked the internet. But we need to allow/add certain DNS (WebURL). rule: This rule does not...
  16. MS16-072: Security update for Group Policy: June 14, 2016

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  17. "Round Robin with Subset" load balancing policy is lost after computer restarts in Windows...

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    Unable to configure users to only show locally installed programmes on start menu

    Hi all, Forgive me if this has already been asked but I couldn't find it through the search tool. I'm having an issue with the start menu on a Domain, the server is windows 2008 and has a setting to force a network start menu on all clients. This is causing issues as applications locally...
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    Windows 7 gpo policy doen't work for windows 7 client

    Hi to all, i have a windows 2003 active directory server and i configured the group policy setting "Remove user folder link from Start Menu" to enabled This policy works correctly in the windows xp clients but doesn't work in the windows 7 clients; in the windows 7 clients i have yet the link...
  20. The Folder Redirection policy does not work if a previous user sets a redirected folder to an offlin

    Fixes an issue in which the Folder Redirection Group Policy does not work if a previous user sets a redirected folder to offline mode in Windows 7 or in Windows Server 2008 R2.Additionally, an event ID 502 is logged in the Application log. More...