With the number of data breaches increasing and the average cost per breach having been as high as $4.24 million in 2021, it is imperative for companies to ensure state-of-the-art protection for their data. Encryption of data at rest and in transit is already standard today and o … | Continue reading
Heya folks, Ned here again. I recently wrote up all the changes that are now available to Windows Server Azure Edition - or are coming soon - and a number of them help out in file server and storage scenarios. Storage Replica compression, new SMB over QUIC options, hotpatching of … | Continue reading
Microsoft has been a pioneer in bringing new confidential computing technology to market. As we have been talking to customers, we have identified customer challenges with scenarios that require a combination of multi-party governance, integrity protection, and programmable confi … | Continue reading
We are excited to announce the public preview of AKS lite (introduced as Project Haven during Build 2022) – the AKS hybrid option for small footprint edge devices. AKS lite will be available for public preview this November 2022. AKS lite is a lightweight, Kubernetes platform tha … | Continue reading
Protecting users from MFA fatigue attacks With increasing adoption of strong authentication, multi-factor authentication (MFA) fatigue attacks (aka, MFA spamming) have become more prevalent. These attacks rely on the user’s ability to approve a simple voice, SMS or push notifi … | Continue reading
One month from today, we’re going to start to turn off basic auth for specific protocols in Exchange Online for customers who use them. Since our first announcement nearly three years ago, we’ve seen millions of users move away from basic auth, and we’ve disabled it in millions o … | Continue reading
Microsoft strives to increase not only the security of the ecosystem, but also maintain our commitment to an open and inclusive ecosystem. Code signing is a part of that. It establishes the identity of the publisher of the application as well as the integrity that it has not been … | Continue reading
On August 5th, 2022, the ESPN2 cable channel will be converted to “ESPN8 the Ocho” for a day dedicated to seldom-seen sports. This year, for the first time, competitive Microsoft Excel will be included in the line-up, with a 30-minute excerpt from the Financial Modeling World Cup … | Continue reading
Today we’re excited to announce the arrival of a native Microsoft Teams app optimized for the Mac lineup with Apple silicon. At Microsoft, we are committed to delivering great product experiences that help our customers work easier and faster on their favorite devices. We he … | Continue reading
If you’ve been running PostgreSQL for a while, you’ve heard about autovacuum. Yes, autovacuum, the thing which everybody asks you not to turn off, which is supposed to keep your database clean and reduce bloat automatically. And yet—imagine this: one fine day, you see that your … | Continue reading
Credit and thanks to Alex Jercaianu, Matthew Cox, Miguel Reyes Badilla, and Milan Justel for implementation work DNS over TLS (DoT) is an alternative encrypted DNS protocol to DNS over HTTPS (DoH). Where DoH treats DNS traffic as one more HTTPS data stream over port 443, DoT de … | Continue reading
I have a hard time believing I'm the first person to post this after not finding anything in the forum. I wouldn't doubt if Microsoft is deleting them because they can't figure out how to fix this issue. I can Google this issue and come up with numerous results but NOTHING has … | Continue reading
The public anticipation surrounding Windows Autopatch has been building since we announced it in April. Fortunately for all, the wait is over. We are pleased to announce that this service is now generally available for customers with Windows Enterprise E3 and E5 licenses. Microso … | Continue reading
As part of a private preview, we are now enabling Rust-based applications to benefit from Azure Sphere’s secure identity, update, and end-to-end encrypted communication services! To me, the promise of Rust is the elimination or significant reduction of entire classes of sof … | Continue reading
Visual Studio 2022 17.3 Preview 2 is now available as a native ARM64 application on Windows 11. This is the first version of Visual Studio that natively supports building and debugging ARM64 apps on ARM-based processors. .NET workloads are one of the prioritized workloads. What i … | Continue reading
A first look at the new Microsoft service that leverages Windows 365 infrastructure to stream secure, ready-to-code developer workstations on demand. Setting up a dev box is extremely arduous for both geographically distributed and co-located development teams. As a developer, y … | Continue reading
With Azure Database for MySQL – Flexible Server, we’re on a mission to enable customers to bring their MySQL workloads to Azure to unlock cost savings, make database development easy, and reduce the operational burden associated with database management, all while maintaining com … | Continue reading
Security and privacy are critically important when storing and processing sensitive information in the cloud, from payment transactions to financial records, personal health data, and more. DC-series virtual machines are unique as they offer support for Intel Software Guard Ex … | Continue reading
In August, we previewed what’s coming to OneNote on Windows. Today, we’re excited to announce an upcoming refresh to OneNote that will help the app feel both familiar and modern. Under the hood, we’re improving nearly all stages of your note-taking workflow that will help you: F … | Continue reading
XDP (eXpress Data Path) is a high performance, programmable network data path that is already a Linux Kernel project with a significant community (Google, Amazon, Intel, Mellanox, etc.) around it. “XDP for Windows” is our new open source XDP interface for Windows on GitHub. It co … | Continue reading
Editor's note: Questions in this FAQ will be added and/or updated over time to provide more detail. Updated/new questions are indicated below. Last updated: April 14, 2022. The future of Internet Explorer (“IE”) on Windows 10 is in Microsoft Edge. What does this mean for commer … | Continue reading
We are excited to announce the Public Preview for NXP's i.MX 8M BSP release on Windows 10 IoT Enterprise. This Public Preview is the result of a multi-year collaboration between Microsoft and NXP that started with Windows IoT Core on i.MX 6 and i.MX 7. We’ve spent the last thre … | Continue reading
Reading Progress in Microsoft Teams has helped educators check reading fluency more frequently and therefore differentiate more powerfully to support students on their fluency journey. Educators using Reading Progress seem the most surprised to see how it motivates their students … | Continue reading
Whether it’s work or personal life, we constantly need to remember to do the things we promised. Switching apps in the middle of a chat to add a task might prevent you from keeping track of everything you need to do. To take away the effort of capturing each task, we integrate … | Continue reading
In a previous post, we shared how Microsoft ensures efficient use of device resources such as CPU and memory during Microsoft Teams calls and meetings. In this article, we want to dive deeper into how our goals and measurement methodology has been used to cut power consumption in … | Continue reading
From the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the United Kingdom (UK) government has made it a top priority to track key health metrics and to share those metrics with the public. And the citizens of the UK were hungry for information, as they tried to make sense of what was hap … | Continue reading
Today, we’re experimenting with transparent ads in the latest Canary build of Microsoft Edge. Transparent ads have been designed to raise the bar on transparency and control with new privacy standards for personalized ads on the web. With transparent ads, Microsoft Edge will be a … | Continue reading
By: Garfield He, Melinda Ma, Melissa Ma, Bohan Li, Qinying Liao, Sheng Zhao, Yueying Liu Text to Speech (TTS), part of Speech in Azure Cognitive Services, enables developers to convert text to lifelike speech for more natural interfaces with a rich choice of prebuilt voices and … | Continue reading
Introduction A core priority of the Windows Kernel team is to keep the operating system, applications, and users secure. Like many operating systems, Windows has a large codebase, a driver ecosystem, and a complex set of dependencies. Every day, many malicious actors attempt to f … | Continue reading
Introduction A core priority of the Windows Kernel team is to keep the operating system, applications, and users secure. Like many operating systems, Windows has a large codebase, a driver ecosystem, and a complex set of dependencies. Every day, many malicious actors attempt to f … | Continue reading
“Buy now, pay later,” or BNPL, lets shoppers break their purchases into equal installment payments, often interest-free, which can allow shoppers to get their purchase upfront, instead of having to wait until it’s paid in full. Usually, BNPL is offered in specific ecommerce web … | Continue reading
Article contributed by Amirreza Rastegari, Jon Shelley, Jithin Jose, Evan Burness, and Aman Verma A Preview program for Azure HBv3 VMs enhanced with AMD EPYC 3rd Gen processors with 3D v-cache (codenamed “Milan-X”) is now available. This blog provides in-depth technical informa … | Continue reading
We recently announced the preview of Azure Private Link support for the Hyperscale (Citus) option in our Azure Database for PostgreSQL managed service. Private Link enables you to create private endpoints for Hyperscale (Citus) nodes, which are exhibited as private IPs within y … | Continue reading
In order to focus resources on new technologies and operating systems, and to provide users with the most up-to-date and secure experience, beginning January 1, 2022, updates will no longer be provided for the OneDrive desktop application on your personal Windows 7, 8, and 8.1 de … | Continue reading
Microsoft Endpoint Manager is adding Linux workstations to its unified endpoint management solution, with preview functionality to be released in early 2022. Customers can currently manage their Windows, Mac, iOS, and Android devices with Microsoft Endpoint Manager. However, they … | Continue reading
Today we are announcing the plan to roll out the public preview of a new remote help capability in Microsoft Endpoint Manager. March 2020 was the last time many people worked at their company's physical office buildings. The global pandemic began and the world of work changed ove … | Continue reading
First published on TechNet on Oct 31, 2005 Last week when I was testing the latest version of RootkitRevealer (RKR) I ran a scan on one of my systems and was shocked to see evidence of a rootkit. Rootkits are cloaking technologies that hide files, Registry keys, and other system … | Continue reading
Microsoft delivers the latest Windows security and user experiences updates monthly. Updates are modular meaning that, regardless of which update you currently have installed, you only need the most recent quality update to get your machine up to date. With the fast pace of Windo … | Continue reading
Starting on October 5th, all Windows 11 users can start using Chat from Microsoft Teams on Windows. It is a signature, lightweight experience brought right to the Taskbar to let Teams personal account users quickly start a video call or chat with friends and family. Chat from Mic … | Continue reading
Stay ahead of external and internal threats — and balance performance, reliability, and security with Windows 11. Dave Weston, Windows security expert, joins Jeremy Chapman to share the rationale behind hardware requirements and how they provide significantly more protection agai … | Continue reading
This post is authored by Felix Schuster (Edgeless Systems). Confidential computing is a breakthrough approach to data protection: sensitive workloads are run inside hardware-isolated and runtime-encrypted environments called enclaves. Enclaves can protect against threats like … | Continue reading
Hi, I am Foteini Savvidou, a Beta Microsoft Learn Student Ambassador! I am an undergraduate Electrical and Computer Engineering student at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Greece) interested in AI, cloud technologies and biomedical engineering. Always passionate about te … | Continue reading
Today, we are excited to announce PostgreSQL 14’s General Availability (GA) on Azure’s Hyperscale (Citus) option. To our knowledge, this is the first time a major cloud provider has announced GA for a new Postgres major version on their platform one day after the official release … | Continue reading
A while ago, I wrote a blog post about Azure Functions integration testing with Mountebank and another blog post about end-to-end (E2E) testing for Azure Functions. In the post, I suggested deploying the Azure Functions app first before running the E2E testing. What if you can ru … | Continue reading
We’re excited to share that OneNote on Windows will get a series of updates over the next 12 months. These updates include a visual refresh, the latest Microsoft pen and ink advancements, a new navigational UI layout option that can flex for customer preferences, and more! If y … | Continue reading
Today we are releasing to our Beta customers seven new LAMBDA functions. These functions aid in the authoring of re-usable LAMBDA functions while also serving as stand-alone functions themselves. Additionally, we are sending the LAMBDA function to Current Channel Preview. LAMBD … | Continue reading
As you may be aware, the SQL Server on Windows Containers Beta program began in 2017. It has remained in Beta mode meant for only test and development environment until now. Due to the existing ecosystem challenges and usage patterns we have decided to suspend the SQL Server on W … | Continue reading
Starting today, Azure IoT Edge for Linux on Windows (EFLOW) allows you to run cloud native Linux workloads on Windows IoT in production deployments. You can now leverage the best of both platforms rather than choosing between Windows and Linux for your IoT solutions. Enterprise … | Continue reading