20 updates for Microsoft Teams for Education, including 7×7 video and Breakout Rooms

Over the last few months, schools and institutions have been working tirelessly to enable distance learning. We’ve heard directly from many of you about engaging students in lessons, encouraging student-to-student collaboration, and faci… Continue reading 20 updates for Microsoft Teams for Education, including 7×7 video and Breakout Rooms

Debugging Async Code: Parallel Stacks for Tasks

In the last async debugging blog post, we explored several tools in Visual Studio to help you debug your async code.  One of the tools we discussed was the Parallel Stacks window for Tasks (or Parallel Tasks), a tool that provides task and thread information while debugging.  Unlike the tabular Task and Thread windows, this information is pr Continue reading Debugging Async Code: Parallel Stacks for Tasks

New string function performance improvements and case-insensitive search

Querying in Azure Cosmos DB just got even better! You now have an option for case-insensitive queries with the following string search system functions:

Contains
EndsWith
StartsWith
StringEquals

Additionally, both Contains and EndsWith also have significant performance improvements. This update was rolled out to Azure Cosmos D Continue reading New string function performance improvements and case-insensitive search

Announcing Windows Community Toolkit v6.1

We are thrilled to announce today the next update to the Windows Community Toolkit, version 6.1. This release was made possible with help and contributions from across our developer community. While a ‘minor’ release, it is jam-packed with new controls, helpers, and improvements to the whole toolkit suite! See more details on these new features […]

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HP reimagines OMEN 15 laptop and introduces Pavilion Gaming 16

The HP OMEN 15 arrives with its smallest footprint yet with a frame that’s 8% shorter and 11% thinner, featuring a redesigned chassis. A new 180-degree flat hinge design for increased stability supports a 15.6-inch diagonal display with options up to FHD 300 Hz or OLED. It also includes the industry’s first applied IR thermopile sensor […]

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Using external data sources to enrich network logs using Azure storage and KQL

Network data sources are one of the highest volume data sources hence threat hunting on such data sources becomes often challenging if we do not enrich such datasets. One of the common first steps done is matching against Threat Intel feeds. Apart from… Continue reading Using external data sources to enrich network logs using Azure storage and KQL

Web shell threat hunting with Azure Sentinel and Microsoft Threat Protection

Tom McElroy, Rob Mead  – Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center 
 
In this blog we use Azure Sentinel to enrich the investigation of endpoint web shell alerts from Microsoft Defender Advanced Threat Protection… Continue reading Web shell threat hunting with Azure Sentinel and Microsoft Threat Protection