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Microsoft has addressed a known issue behind unsupported computers being offered Windows 11 22H2 upgrades and unable to complete the installation process. This has happened before, with Windows 11 22H2 being offered to Windows 11 Insiders in the Release Preview channel with ineligible devices.
After having stressed the importance of keeping Exchange servers updated last month, Microsoft is advising administrators to widen the scope of antivirus scanning on those servers. Microsoft Exchange servers in attackers' crosshairs.
Microsoft's open-source PowerToys tool is a great way to customize your Windows experience. Thanks to work done by the community, PowerToys is getting a new feature - the ability to paste text as plain text.
Microsoft Edge's built-in VPN functionality could soon begin rolling out to all users in the stable channel, with some users already getting access to the feature.Edge's VPN 'Edge Secure Network' uses Cloudflare and aims to protect your device and sensitive data as you browse, but remember it is not a proper replacement for your VPN. Unlike traditional VPN extensions or tools, Edge uses Cloudflare's routing to encrypt your internet connection and protect your data from online threats like hackers.
Microsoft is recommending that Exchange server users scan certain objects for viruses and other threats that until now had been excluded. Microsoft late last month urged Exchange server users to make sure their systems are up-to-date with the latest Cumulative and Security updates and hardened against cyberattacks.
Last year, Microsoft announced automatic attack disruption capabilities in Microsoft 365 Defender, its enterprise defense suite. On Wednesday, it announced that these capabilities will now help organizations disrupt two common attack scenarios: BEC and human-operated ransomware attacks.
The automatic attack disruption functionality aimed at corporate security operation centers uses millions of data points and signals to identify active malware campaigns - including ransomware - and take steps to automatically isolate the device under attack from the network and to suspended accounts compromised by the attackers. The software and cloud services giant has now expanded the public preview of the automatic attack disruption capability to cover business email compromise and human-operated ransomware attacks.
Microsoft says admins should remove some previously recommended antivirus exclusions for Exchange servers to boost the servers' security. "Keeping these exclusions may prevent detections of IIS webshells and backdoor modules, which represent the most common security issues," the Exchange Team said.
Microsoft will start testing Bing Chat tones, enabling users to switch between receiving answers that are either more creative or more focused on their queries. We are "Going to begin testing an additional option that lets you choose the tone of the Chat from more Precise - which will focus on shorter, more search focused answers - to Balanced, to more Creative - which gives you longer and more chatty answers," the Bing Team said.
According to reports from an increasing number of Microsoft customers, Outlook inboxes have been flooded with spam emails over the last nine hours because email spam filters are currently broken. This ongoing issue was confirmed by countless Outlook users who have reported that all messages were landing in their inboxes, even those that would have been previously tagged as spam and sent to the junk folder.