Updated Back to School Kit + New EDU Webinar Series

Updated Back to School Kit + New EDU Webinar Series

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Introduction






This month, the Microsoft Education Customer Engagement and Support Team is releasing an updated version of the well-received Back To School Kit that was initially released in July 2020. This kit provides high-level guidance for Educators K12, Leadership and Special Services teachers on how to use Microsoft technology to prepare for their upcoming school year.

 

In addition, members of the EDU Engagement team will be hosting four new webinars to walk you through each aspect of the guide. Please see the overview below and join the Enable Remote Learning (ERL) Community for continuous updates or to ask us a question. See you soon! 

 

Where to get the BTS kit

We’ll update this post as soon as we have the final download link for the guide, so please check back over the following days.

 

Webinar dates and intended audience

Based on feedback from our communities, we’ll be offering four public training sessions. Each session is specifically focused on a different EDU role. Our EDU experts will share common scenarios, use cases, and answer your questions live.

 





































Session Date Time Audience and .ics Calendar file
1 Mon January 25 6:00-7:00 pm PST Educators
2 Tue January 26 6:00-7:00 pm PST EDU Leadership 
3 Thu January 28 6:00-7:00 pm PST Special Service Teachers
4 Fri January 29 6:00-7:00 pm PST Open Office Hour – All roles 

 

Feel free to share all info with others

If you know anyone who might be interested in joining these events, please share this post with them.

 





Live sessions on Twitch

All sessions will take place on live-streaming platform Twitch.tv, on Stephen Reid’s PlayMatters channel:


 

Presenters

Our presenters will be Geri Gillespy and Stephen Reid.

 




On-demand recordings




These webinars will be recorded and made available on demand afterwards. 








Azure Sphere Security Service disruption January 12, 2021 [updated]

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Updated January 12, 2021, 18:06 PM PST:


The partial Azure Sphere Security Service disruption has been resolved.


 


January 12, 2021, 17:36 PM PST:


Azure Sphere customers may be affected by a partial disruption of Azure Sphere Security Service today, January 12, 2021. Azure Sphere devices will not be affected. The disruption is limited to the public REST service. Our team is actively working to resolve the disruption.


 


We will update this post as more information is available.

Azure Sphere Security Service disruption January 12, 2021

This article is contributed. See the original author and article here.

January 12, 2021, 17:36 PM PST:


Azure Sphere customers may be affected by a partial disruption of Azure Sphere Security Service today, January 12, 2021. Azure Sphere devices will not be affected. The disruption is limited to the public REST service. Our team is actively working to resolve the disruption.


 


We will update this post as more information is available.

Sysmon v13.01 and PsExec v2.30

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Sysmon v13.01


This bugfix update to Sysmon resolves a series of config parsing issues.

 

PsExec v2.30


Previous versions of PsExec are susceptible to a named pipe squatting attack. If a low-privileged attacker creates a named pipe on a server to which a PsExec client connects, they could intercept explicit authentication credentials or sensitive command-line arguments sent by the client. The PsExec client now drops a key into file protected with an administrator-only security descriptor with a name formatted as PSEXEC-.key into the Windows directory on the remote system that the PsExec service uses to authenticate to the client.

Experiencing Data Gaps issue in Azure Portal for Many Data Types – 01/12 – Resolved

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Final Update: Tuesday, 12 January 2021 22:44 UTC

We’ve confirmed that all systems are back to normal with no customer impact as of 01/12, 22:28 UTC. Our logs show the incident started on 01/12, 20:35 UTC and that during the 1 hours & 54 minutes that it took to resolve the issue only 24 subscriptions of customers experienced connectivity failures when attempting to establish connections to Log Analytics ingestion endpoint. Additionally, customers may have also experienced their Log Search alerts missing or fired incorrectly..
  • Root Cause: The failure was due to a
    certificate configuration issue in a recent deployment  preventing customers from establishing connections to the Log Analytics ingestion endpoint.
    .
  • Incident Timeline: 1 hours & 54 minutes – 01/12, 20:35 UTC through 01/12, 22:28 UTC
We understand that customers rely on Application Insights as a critical service and apologize for any impact this incident caused.

-Arish B

Update: Tuesday, 12 January 2021 21:53 UTC

Root cause has been isolated to a certificate configuration issue in a recent deployment which resulted in Log analytics not accepting OMS ingestion data. To address this issue we are deploying a corrected certificate to the Brazil region. Some customers may experience residual affect and we estimate 1 hour before all data loss or connection issue is addressed.

Start time: 2021-01-12 20:35 UTC
  • Work Around: None
  • Next Update: Before 01/13 00:00 UTC
-Arish B