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    Audit and Lock Down App Permissions & Privacy Settings in Windows 10/11

    Audit and Lock Down App Permissions & Privacy Settings in Windows 10/11 Difficulty: Intermediate | Time Required: 15 minutes Introduction Apps asking for access to your camera, microphone, location, files, and other data can be convenient — but they’re also a privacy and security risk if left...
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    Windows 11 25H2 Release Preview: Enablement Package for Fast, Low-Impact Upgrades

    Windows 11’s next annual feature update is now moving from staged preview into its final validation ring: Microsoft has made Windows 11, version 25H2 available to Release Preview Insiders and commercial customers for targeted testing, delivered as an enablement package on top of the 24H2...
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    Strong Certificate Mappings on Windows DCs: Prepare for Sept 2025 Deadline

    Microsoft will remove support for the StrongCertificateBindingEnforcement registry key on Windows domain controllers on September 10, 2025, forcing a permanent switch to stricter, strong certificate-to-account mappings that will break legacy certificate-based authentication setups unless...
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    Windows Server 2025: Automation, Hotpatching, and the KB5044284 Lesson

    Microsoft’s latest move to automate and AI‑assist Windows Server 2025 upgrades promises to cut the friction and risk that have long dogged enterprise patch cycles, but the effort is also a reminder that automation without clear metadata and robust controls can make things worse as quickly as it...
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    CIQ Rocky Linux Hardened (RLC-H) Now on AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Marketplaces

    CIQ’s hardened variant of Rocky Linux has taken a decisive step into the hyperscaler world: Rocky Linux from CIQ – Hardened (RLC‑H) is now offered through the major cloud marketplaces, giving enterprises a pre‑configured, supply‑chain‑validated Enterprise Linux image designed to reduce manual...
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    Windows Server 2019 EOL: ESU to 2029 and Migration Paths

    Windows Server 2019 has entered a new phase of its lifecycle: mainstream support ended on January 9, 2024, and Microsoft will provide security-only updates during the extended support period through January 9, 2029. After that date the product reaches full end of life (EOL) and will no longer...
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    Cloud-Managed Remote Mailboxes: A Step Toward Retiring the Last Exchange Server

    Microsoft’s Exchange team has taken a decisive step toward finally letting organizations retire the last Exchange server in hybrid environments by adding cloud-managed remote mailbox support — a per-mailbox “flip-the-switch” that transfers Exchange attribute authority to Exchange Online while...
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    Migrate to the Dedicated Exchange Hybrid App: Urgent Guide

    Microsoft’s Exchange team has given hybrid administrators a clear-but-urgent migration mandate: switch to the dedicated Exchange hybrid app and update on‑prem servers now, or face temporary disruptions in September and October followed by a permanent enforcement that will stop rich coexistence...
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    TrustedTech pivots to Microsoft-first services: Copilot, migrations, security

    TrustedTech’s pivot from a licensing-focused reseller to a full-service Microsoft-first systems integrator is more than a new logo — it is a deliberate repositioning into the fast-growing market for Microsoft Copilot enablement, Azure tenant migrations, managed security, and onshore certified...
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    TrustedTech Rebrands as Microsoft-First Cloud and AI Services Partner

    TrustedTech’s decision to rebrand and recast itself as a Microsoft-first cloud and AI systems integrator marks a deliberate pivot from transactional licensing to outcome-driven services aimed squarely at Copilot deployments, Azure migrations, and managed security — a move the company unveiled in...
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    August 2025: Dedicated Hybrid App for Skype for Business Hybrid - Act by Oct 15

    Microsoft’s August 2025 hotfixes for Skype for Business Server introduce a security-first change that will force organizations with hybrid deployments to act quickly: a new, customer-managed Dedicated Hybrid Application model replaces the long-standing Microsoft-managed shared service principal...
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    TrustedTech pivots to Microsoft cloud, Copilot, and AI services

    TrustedTech’s move from a licensing-focused reseller to a full-spectrum Microsoft cloud and AI services partner marks a deliberate pivot into higher‑value professional services, signalling ambitions to capture demand for Copilot deployments, Azure migrations, and enterprise managed security—an...
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    CVE-2025-7973: Privilege Escalation in FactoryTalk ViewPoint 14.x

    A critical local privilege‑escalation flaw has been disclosed in Rockwell Automation’s FactoryTalk ViewPoint (versions 14.00 and prior) that allows an attacker with local access to escalate to SYSTEM by abusing Windows MSI repair behavior — the issue is tracked as CVE‑2025‑7973 and has been...
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    Netlogon Hardening in 2025 Updates: AD DC Security vs Samba Compatibility

    Microsoft has quietly but decisively reworked how Active Directory domain controllers answer certain Netlogon RPC calls — a change rolled into the July and August 2025 cumulative updates that hardens the Microsoft RPC Netlogon protocol, closes an unauthenticated resource‑exhaustion vector...
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    KB5064010 Hotpatch for Windows 11 LTSC 2024 - Security, No-Restart Update (26100.4851)

    August 12, 2025, saw Microsoft publish KB5064010 — a hotpatch for Windows 11 Enterprise LTSC 2024 that advances the OS to OS Build 26100.4851, delivering targeted security hardening without the broad-feature changes or mandatory restarts that administrators dread. This release is part of...
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    CVE-2025-25007: Exchange Server Spoofing - Quick Mitigation Guide

    Microsoft’s security portal lists CVE-2025-25007 as a Microsoft Exchange Server spoofing vulnerability caused by improper validation of syntactic correctness of input, but public technical detail and third‑party analysis for this specific CVE remain sparse at the time of publication —...
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    CVE-2025-53730: Visio Use-After-Free RCE and Patch Guide

    Microsoft has published a security advisory for CVE-2025-53730, a use‑after‑free vulnerability in Microsoft Office Visio that Microsoft describes as allowing an unauthorized attacker to execute code locally when a specially crafted Visio file is opened. Background Microsoft Visio is a widely...
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    Qualcomm Image Processing AI Update 1.2507.797.0 for Windows 11 Copilot+ (KB5065499)

    Microsoft has released KB5065499, an Image Processing AI component update that advances the component to version 1.2507.797.0 for Qualcomm-powered Copilot+ PCs running Windows 11, version 24H2. The patch is targeted specifically at the on-device imaging AI stack that Windows uses to scale...
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    KB5065500 Image Processing AI Update: 1.2507.797.0 for Intel Copilot+ on Windows 11 24H2

    Microsoft has pushed a targeted component update — KB5065500, which advances the Image Processing AI component to version 1.2507.797.0 for Intel‑powered Copilot+ PCs running Windows 11 version 24H2, delivering a modest set of improvements to on‑device image scaling and foreground/background...
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    Upgrade Windows 11 on Unsupported PCs with Rufus: Keep Apps & Data

    The end of free security updates for Windows 10 on October 14, 2025 is forcing millions of perfectly serviceable PCs to make a decision: pay for Extended Security Updates, retire the hardware, or find a way to install Windows 11 on devices Microsoft no longer “supports.” The good news is that...
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