Microsoft processes 24 trillion signals every 24 hours, and we have blocked billions of attacks in the last year alone. Microsoft Security tracks more than 35 unique ransomware families and 250 unique threat actors across observed nation-state, ransomware, and criminal ... continue reading

Windows Hello for Business (WHfB) provides a password-less experience for users to log into their Windows 10 or 11 device. However, a challenge remains when accessing remote systems. This can be via MMC console for example to access Active Directory ... continue reading

Almost all IT Pros start off doing some form of desktop support before being thrown into the server administration deep end with the sharks. Back in ancient times, the premier Microsoft IT Pro certification (the MCSE), even had a compulsory ... continue reading

The modern standard for multicast name discovery is mDNS. However, Windows supports other multicast name resolutions protocols for historical reasons, including NetBIOS name resolution and LLMNR. More details about the documentation for each of these protocols can be found here ... continue reading

Hi, my name is Ricardo Carvalho, I am a Customer Engineer working in Modern Workplace and Security in Portuguese Customer Success Unit team. With the Internet Explorer 11 desktop app retirement announced for next June 15, 2022, many customers started ... continue reading

There are many niche areas within infrastructure and security, but we find that most IT Pros have a very broad set of responsibilities, touching different products and tasks. If you’re working in a Microsoft-focussed environment, especially one that is using ... continue reading

HTTP/3 is a major change to HTTP. It switches away from using TCP as a transport and TLS separately to using QUIC as a transport which has TLS 1.3 or higher built in. These changes mean that migrating from HTTP/2 ... continue reading

The massive shift toward remote and hybrid work over the last two years has prompted many security professionals to reassess where siloed security may create vulnerabilities.1 For that reason, Zero Trust has become the gold standard for enterprise security. An ... continue reading

Planning for Microsoft Defender for Endpoint? If you’re planning to move to Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, you will need to start with your organization’s architecture. The deployment tools you are going to use for onboarding devices to Microsoft Defender for ... continue reading

Hi community, My name is Helmut Wagensonner. I’m a Customer Engineer at Microsoft and this blog should help you to understand, which Administrative Templates (admx) to choose for your Windows 11 / Windows 10 mixed environment. Remember how it was ... continue reading