Microsoft has released its October 2020 security updates, which is fixes for 87 vulnerabilities in Microsoft products and Adobe Flash Player update. This post will give our vulnerability score and tips around each patch released. Out of the 87 patches, 12 are classed as critical, 74 are classed as important... read more →
Oct
16
Sep
21
Microsoft Azure UK South region suffered a significant outage on the 14th September 2020, which caused a wide range of service failures for customers in this region. The full root cause analysis has now been provided by Microsoft, and can be found here This outage highlights the requirement for careful architectural... read more →
Sep
15
Okay, its not new and its not shiny. In fact, we know that some people go out of their way to avoid it. Its routine work, its often problematic, it takes time and causes disruption to systems that need to be always be on, but its essential that organisations stay... read more →
Jul
15
There was a major vulnerability announced yesterday for Windows server, it affects all versions going right back to 2003 and has a CVSS score of 10.0 which is the highest (worst) you can get. Yesterday Microsoft released an update for CVE-2020-1350, a Critical Remote Code Execution (RCE) vulnerability in Windows... read more →
May
05
As of April 21st 2020, Microsoft made changes to several product names, these changes were implemented automatically and at this stage, there are no changes to license cost or features. The changes were as follows:- • Office 365 Business Essentials became Microsoft 365 Business Basic. • Office 365 Business Premium... read more →
Apr
21
You can now integrate Yammer with Teams via the Teams App store which helps to consolidate these two collaboration platforms to some extent. If you open Teams, click your three dots and select More apps:- When the window opens, search for Yammer in the top box and Communities should appear.... read more →
Apr
15
Teams meetings invitations can be customised such as adding a company logo, a legal disclaimer, help information and a text only footer. This is all done via the Teams admin center, https://admin.teams.microsoft.com, using an account with appropriate permissions such as a Teams or Global Administrator to Microsoft 365. Note that... read more →
Apr
06
There are many potential benefits to public cloud adoption, enhanced resiliency, improved agility, cost reduction and many more, but its not a given that all these benefits will be realised just because "you're in the cloud", each use case and thus the benefits are unique. Cost is one of the... read more →
Mar
30
With the lockdown in place and all staff working remotely, we've had to postpone our sponsored spin for YPACF. We will rearrange this later in the year when some sense of normality is resumed. We will however all be doing at least 1 hour of vigorous exercise tomorrow (by... read more →
Mar
19
Yes, a very long-winded title! Our Principal Consultant Toby Skerritt takes a look at AD authentication over SMB for Azure file shares. The ability to set Active Directory based permissions on Azure Storage Account file shares has been one of the most heavily requested features of the platform. It’s now... read more →