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Can your Identity Security Posture be fixed? A fact known to security teams worldwide is that most cyber-attacks leverage existing unpatched vulnerabilities (ever heard of BlueKeep?), and have taught us that often the most effective proactive security strategy for any organization is...

This blog post was co-authored by - Senior Program Manager, Cloud App Security In today’s modern enterprises, apps run the workplace. While we see an average of 129 IT-managed applications, discovery data from our Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB) shows that the total number of apps...

Beginning in PowerShell 7 Preview 3, PowerShell will be sending some additional data points to Microsoft. This data will allow us to better understand usage of PowerShell and enable us to prioritize our future investments. These additional points of data were reviewed with the PowerShell...

(This post is authored by Jessica Yang, Program Manager, Microsoft 365) Microsoft Intune is delighted to announce support for specialized configuration of Zebra Technologies devices deployed with Android Enterprise (AE). Zebra Technologies is a leading manufacturer of ruggedized devices...

Out-GridView Returns! It’s been almost 3 years since PowerShell Core debuted for Linux and Mac, and as we’ve increased our cmdlet coverage more and more, one cmdlet has always stood out as a top, cross-platform request. Today, we are excited to announce that Out-GridView is debuting on all...

We just released the DSC Resource Kit! This release includes updates to 11 DSC resource modules. In the past 6 weeks, 96 pull requests have been merged and 45 issues have been closed, all thanks to our amazing community! The modules updated in this release are: ActiveDirectoryDsc...

(This post co-authored with Jessica Yang, Program Manager, Microsoft 365) Microsoft Intune is pleased to announce the release of a new configuration designer experience for managing Android Enterprise devices using the OEMConfig application. We have received very positive early feedback...

Microsoft is moving all its online services to Transport Layer Security (TLS) 1.2+ to provide best-in-class encryption, and to ensure our service is more secure by default, including Microsoft Cloud App Security. How does this affect me? As of September 8, 2019 Microsoft Cloud App Security...

Last week we held our annual Microsoft Inspire event welcoming partners from around the world! During the conference, we had some great sessions, including Microsoft Azure is the #1 destination for Windows Server and SQL Server. We also announced the Windows Server on Azure Advanced...

(This post is co-authored with Anya Novicheva, Program Manager, Microsoft 365) Microsoft Intune is excited to announce support for FileVault full-disk encryption configuration on macOS devices. FileVault full-disk encryption (also known as FileVault 2) helps prevent unauthorized access to...

PowerShell is very suitable for CI/CD scenarios due to its easy and well understood scripting paradigm, and its cross-platform support makes it great for building and testing cross-platform applications. A .NET Global Tool is a special NuGet package that contains a console application. A .NET...

(This post is co-authored with Aashka Damani, Program Manager, and Mayunk Jain, Product Manager, Microsoft 365) Microsoft Intune is excited to announce the general availability of administrative templates support for Windows 10 device configuration profiles. This feature received wide...

Microsoft Intune is excited to announce general availability of Windows MDM Security Baselines. A new version of security baselines is also being released at the same time, identified as MDM Security Baseline for Spring 2019 Update (19H1). This is a new template that includes several new...

This blog post was authored by Jeff Woolsey, Principal PM Manager, Windows Server. This month, SQL Server 2008 and 2008 R2 reached their End of Support. On January 14, 2020, Windows Server 2008 and 2008 R2 will also reach their End of Support. These important dates provide an opportunity for...

We just released the DSC Resource Kit! This release includes updates to 8 DSC resource modules. In the past 6 weeks, 95 pull requests have been merged and 55 issues have been closed, all thanks to our amazing community! The modules updated in this release are: CertificateDsc NetworkingDsc...

This week we announced a new Identity threat investigation experience, which correlates identity events from Microsoft Cloud App Security, Azure Advanced Threat Protection, and Azure Active Directory Identity Protection into a single investigation experience for security analysts and hunters...

Hello world! Brandon Wilson, Sr PFE, excited to be here with you yet again! Today’s post is a different kind of post, one that, for me personally, tugs a bit at my heart strings. Today I am here to announce that AskPFEPlat will be closing its doors on TechNet (effective June 17, 2019); it has...

Overview PSScriptAnalyzer (PSSA) 1.18.1 is now available on the PSGallery and fixes not only a lot of the issues reported for 1.18.0 but has also been made twice as faster compared to 1.18.0. Additionally, the -SaveDscDependency switch on Invoke-ScriptAnalyzerhas been improved to be platform...

This blog post was authored by Arpan Shah, General Manager, Microsoft Azure. Customers such as Allscripts, Chevron, J.B. Hunt, and thousands of others are migrating their important workloads to Azure where they find unmatched security. While understanding cloud security is initially a concern...

___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT FOR OUR READERS! AskPFEPlat is in the process of a transformation to the new Core Infrastructure and Security TechCommunity, and will be moving...