Month: May 2020

The Microsoft Threat Protection Intelligence Team posted article in their blog on April 28th
 
Ransomware groups continue to target healthcare, critical services; here’s how to reduce risk
 
This blog post digs deep into a new ransomware tech… Continue reading New Ransomware Group Targets Healthcare→

This week, our Excel MVP Frederic Le Guen from Toulouse, France, tells us about his clever use of Excel as a sports coach,
 
“With the coronavirus crisis, like everyone, I stay home.  But after a couple of weeks, watching TV is clearly a wast… Continue reading Excel for good: Excel as a sports coach→

A customer reported that their program eventually ground to a halt with over 750 threads stuck in Win­Http­Get­Proxy­For­Url:

(I’ve simplified the stack trace for expository purposes.)
What’s happening here is that you put some work on the thread pool, and that work called Win­Http­Get­Proxy­For­Url. This function is synchronous, Continue reading Diagnosing a hang: Everybody stuck in Win­Http­Get­Proxy­For­Url→

With so much happening in the world it can challenging to keep up with everything.  In this update I wanted to highlight some things that have happened this week as well as highlighting some great content that was created this week.  Also, tu… Continue reading AzUpdate: Windows Virtual Desktop Update, new AKS features, Red Hat & Confidential Computing!→

Effective June 1, 2020, Microsoft will automatically enable Microsoft Threat Protection features when eligible customers visit the Microsoft 365 security center (security.microsoft.com).
Read below to learn more.
 
Who are eligible?
Customers with… Continue reading Microsoft Threat Protection will automatically turn on for eligible license holders→