This is a follow-up of my series on Ransomware (Part One: Analyzing the Anatomy of a Ransomware Attack – msandbu.org) the reason why I released this follow-up is that lately we have seen a large increase in Ransomware attacks. The reason behind this is that because lately there have been many critical vulnerabilities related to […]

Copilot Pro debuts today, offering a premium subscription at $20 per month. This service includes AI-enhanced functionalities within Office applications such as Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. Additionally, subscribers gain priority access to the newest OpenAI models and the capability to create their personalized Copilot GPT. Similar to what ChatGPT has with ChatGPT Plus. Apart from

The Owner and User Access Administrator roles let you set up who can do what in your subscription. Basically, if you’re in one of these roles, you can decide who gets to change, see, or delete stuff. Want to hand over these powers to someone else? Just make them an Owner or User Access Administrator.

A couple of years ago I posted a blog post about SASE and the future way to protect remote workers SASE – The next generation of services we need to protect the mobile workspace? – msandbu.org. Well at lot has happened since then, and I decided to revisit this topic to write an update to

With the release of ChatGPT it gave the regular end-user access to generative AI at their fingertips, which then started a domino effect on the development of new generative AI services in the market. All cloud providers are doubling down their development and efforts on building Generative AI capabilities. Microsoft focused on Copilot offerings, Google

Now in 2023, why are many still struggling to have a good set of monitoring capabilities on their services to end-users? at the end of the day, the main focus of IT is providing services to end-users. easily accessible, functional, available, and secure. In this blog post, I try to dig into the big ecosystem

This year has been a fun year for product marketing now with Generative AI on the loose and everyone working on embedding and building new services using Generative AI. One of those vendors that has embraced this to the full extent is Microsoft with all their “Copilots“. When reading the documentation and marketing slides it

One of the new services that was released last week during Microsoft Ignite was Copilot Studio. Studio is a “rebranding” of Power App Virtual Agent. It is a low-code platform designed for tailoring Copilot for Microsoft 365 and creating independent copilots. This platform integrates various advanced conversational features, including specialized GPT models, generative AI add-ons,

Earlier this year, Microsoft introduced support for Entra ID authentication to an Azure file share using the REST API. So why should we care about using Entra ID support for an Azure File share? well, the combination is that now we have a multi-protocol file service. This means that regular users can access the file

Earlier today I was troubleshooting something for a customer where some end-users were getting issues when trying to connect to an Azure blob storage using the Azure web portal. This also recently stopped working and impacted some of the users. This was the error message that they were getting when trying to connect. “Unable to