Think of MIP as a collection of features, services, and controls that are grouped together because combined, they work towards achieving those goals. This means MIP is not a single license, it’s not a ...

Russell Smith, the Editorial Director at Petri IT Knowledgebase, has over two decades of hands-on experience in IT, in both small business settings and government IT infrastructure projects. Russell ...

Microsoft has confirmed two ongoing problems affecting Universal Print in Windows 11. The company has warned that printers originally installed… Microsoft is repositioning Windows as a platform for ...

Rabia has a master's degree in Software Engineering and she has years of experience writing professionally about Microsoft products and other technologies. Rabia has also written for OnMSFT.com as ...

Active Directory (AD) is Microsoft’s directory service, widely used by organizations to manage and secure their IT environments. It acts as a centralized database that stores and organizes information ...

An often-overlooked element of security is the Web Application Firewall (WAF), especially in cloud computing. In this article, I explain what a WAF does, the different kinds of WAF, and I discuss why ...

Microsoft fixed 138 security flaws across major products. Several critical bugs could enable remote system takeover. Windows 11 gains new accessibility, and stability upgrades. Microsoft has released ...

This article provides a comprehensive comparison of the Command Prompt vs PowerShell, guiding you through the distinct features and ideal use cases for each tool, helping you make an informed decision ...

Microsoft issues 56 security fixes, including several high-severity vulnerabilities across Windows and other components. Windows 11 25H2 and 24H2 receive quality updates focused on AI-driven ...

Last year, I wrote about the Office 365 substrate, a little understood but critical component of how Microsoft is developing their cloud services. That article followed a talk by Microsoft Fellow ...

Microsoft Entra ID, formerly Azure Active Directory (AD), is Microsoft’s cloud-native identity management platform. It only takes one compromised Entra ID user account to consent to a rogue app that ...

Welcome back to our two-part series on how to enable secure LDAP (LDAPS) communications between client/server applications on Windows Server 2008/2012 domain controllers. In part one, I went over what ...