Microsoft is folding premium Microsoft Intune Suite capabilities into Microsoft 365 E3 and E5 subscriptions and bundling new Windows resiliency features into Windows Enterprise E3, delivering an expanded set of AI-driven management, Zero Trust controls, and recovery tools to many enterprise...
Rob Green’s interview with DQ India offers a practical, inside-out view of how an enterprise solutions integrator is moving from pilot projects to agentic, production-grade AI — and why that matters for IT leaders who must balance innovation, security, and regulatory compliance. The conversation...
Microsoft is hosting its November 20, 2025 Windows Office Hours — a one-hour, chat-based Q&A with product teams covering Windows 11 adoption, device management (Intune, Configuration Manager), deployment automation (Autopilot, Windows 365), and security best practices including Zero Trust — and...
Oneclick and Exoscale’s new Windows 11 DaaS offering promises a fast, secure, and European‑sovereign route off the Windows 10 cliff—but the real value for IT teams will depend on careful architecture, contractual clarity, and realistic TCO planning.
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Treat this as a fire alarm: four national security agencies have issued coordinated, high‑urgency guidance telling organizations that on‑premises and hybrid Microsoft Exchange Server environments are being actively targeted and must be hardened immediately — and that a separate, critical Windows...
When an industry veteran says “identity is the new perimeter,” they mean more than a slogan — they mean a strategic pivot that should already be reshaping every security program, architecture review, and boardroom risk discussion. In a recent interview reported by IT Brief New Zealand, James...
The countdown to October 14, 2025 has turned a routine lifecycle change into a board‑level strategic moment: with Windows 10 support ending, IT leaders now face a hard deadline that separates tactical fire‑fighting from a once‑in‑a‑generation opportunity to modernize endpoint estates, strengthen...
Amazon Web Services suffered a broad regional outage early on October 20 that knocked dozens of widely used apps and platforms offline — from team collaboration tools and video calls to social apps, bank services and smart-home devices — with early evidence pointing to DNS-resolution problems...
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Microsoft’s engineering teams have taken a familiar security posture—the Zero Trust mindset—and applied it to the physical fabric of their campuses, producing a dual‑domain optical architecture that pairs a production ROADM transport with a physically independent MUX‑based backup to deliver what...
For many hybrid enterprises the last, stubborn step of digital transformation is not lifting servers or rehosting applications — it’s reconciling identity across on‑premises Active Directory and cloud identity platforms so users, services, and workloads can authenticate and authorize reliably...
Windows Office Hours on October 16, 2025 will give IT teams a focused, live chat forum to get direct answers from Microsoft product experts about adopting Windows 11, managing fleets with Microsoft Intune and Configuration Manager, implementing Zero Trust, and moving toward cloud-native...
Microsoft’s latest Secure Future Initiative (SFI) update moves beyond high-level commitments and delivers a practical, practitioner-focused set of patterns and practices aimed at turning Zero Trust theory into repeatable operational reality for networks, tenants, engineering systems, and...
The migration from Windows 10 to Windows 11 is no longer a distant IT project — it is a definable strategic opportunity that, when handled correctly, can deliver measurable security, productivity, and competitive gains for businesses across sectors. The recent CAJ News Africa briefing framing...
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Microsoft’s move away from a traditional VPN toward an identity-first Security Service Edge—branded internally as Global Secure Access (GSA) and externally as Microsoft Entra Internet Access and Microsoft Entra Private Access—represents a major operational and architectural shift for large...
Electronic health records (EHRs are now the operational heart of modern healthcare, but expanding clinician access without undermining patient safety demands a careful, risk-based redesign of identity, authentication, and access controls across people, devices, and applications.
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When Varonis field CTO Brian Vecci quipped that “every copilot pilot gets stuck in pilot” at a Fortune Brainstorm Tech panel, the laughter in the room masked a sharper truth: organizations desperate to extract business value from generative AI are repeatedly hitting the same barrier — data...
Workday and Microsoft have announced a practical, identity-first integration that lets organizations register, verify, and govern AI agents alongside human employees by linking Microsoft’s agent runtime and identity tooling with Workday’s new Agent System of Record (ASOR), enabling agents built...
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Windows 10 will stop receiving free security fixes on October 14, 2025 — and if your PC can’t take the free Windows 11 upgrade, you have five realistic paths forward: enroll in Extended Security Updates (ESU), buy or rent a new Windows 11 PC (including cloud PCs), perform an unsupported upgrade...
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Microsoft’s Windows 365 is taking a pragmatic step toward wider frontline and shift-worker adoption by launching Windows 365 Cloud Apps in public preview — a feature that streams individual Windows applications from a shared Cloud PC so organizations can deliver Outlook, Word, OneDrive and...
Workday and Microsoft’s new integration aims to let organisations manage human employees and AI agents from a single, auditable plane — registering Copilot Studio and Azure AI Foundry agents into Workday’s Agent System of Record (ASOR) and giving each agent a verifiable Microsoft Entra Agent ID...
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