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VMware has released security updates to address multiple vulnerabilities in VMware Carbon Black App Control software. A remote attacker could exploit these vulnerabilities to take control of an affected system.
CISA encourages users and administrators to review VMware Security Advisory VMSA-2022-0008 and apply the necessary updates.
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Today, we are releasing an update (“hotfix”) to our latest generally available version of Windows Admin Center! Windows Admin Center version 2110.2 is now in Public Preview. Thank you to our customers, partners, and fans for helping us to continue to improve and make Windows Admin Center better! We’re working constantly to ensure users of our product have the best user experience.
We’ve been working diligently to address feedback from our 2110 release in November of last year. In this update of our 2110 release, we’ve made major bug fixes to Role-based Access Control (RBAC), the connections page’s search feature, as well as bug fixes in several extensions.
Windows Admin Center now enables HSTS support!
Enabled HSTS support! HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS) is a policy mechanism that helps protect your website by forcing the browser to only open websites with secure HTTPS connections only. This will reduce the risk of threats such as protocol downgrade attacks and cookie hijacking. HSTS will on by default and always be enabled unless you manually disable it within your browser.
Session expiration & manage-as reauthentication
In the past release, we introduced the session expiration feature, where users can have their UI session of Windows Admin Center expire after some period of inactivity. With this release, users are able to specify the duration time and also require manage-as sessions to reauthenticate after a set time. To use this feature, navigate to the Settings icon on the top-left and select the General tab.
RBAC fixes
In the 2110 release, some users were unable to utilize gateway access roles or RBAC. In this release, you should be able to effectively manage your gateway access roles again from the Settings page. The Allowed Groups table will now display the roles properly and allow you to add and delete as you see fit. In addition to that, RBAC for Server Manager has been fixed, you are now able to apply and remove RBAC on your machine(s) and delegate privileged and non-privileged roles.
Connections page is fixed
In the 2110 release, users were having a myriad of issues on the connections page such as broken search and tagging. We have resolved the following issues in this release:
Other
Cluster create
v.2.13.0 introduces new and intuitive messaging that will bring more clarity and ease for our users. Fixes to the wizard such as the cluster DNS replication issue, and an upgrade to Angular 11!
We hope you enjoy this latest update of Windows Admin Center, the various new functionality in preview, and all the extensions now available. Learn more and download today!
If your current instance of Windows Admin Center is v2110 or higher, and you have enabled automatic updates, your instance of Admin Center will automatically update over the next 2 weeks! As always, thanks for your ongoing support, adoption, and feedback. Your contributions through user feedback continue to be vital and valuable to us, helping us prioritize and sequence our investments.
Windows Admin Center is continuously evolving and growing as a tool and a platform, and we are beyond thrilled to have you part of our journey.
To skill up on Windows Admin Center and Windows Server 2022, check out our Windows Server Hybrid Administrator Certification and other featured Learn courses.
Thank you,
Windows Admin Center Team (@servermgmt)
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The new Jira Cloud for Teams empowers teams with agility, intelligence, and actions to deliver a collaborative app experience for hybrid work.
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This season on Inside Microsoft Teams, our goal is to share a more diverse set of customers and stories around how our customers in a wide range of fields have found success in piloting, deploying, managing, securing, and driving adoption around Teams.
In addition, we are looking to focus more on our application partners, helping you to get more done. With that said, we heard from Atlassian, makers of the Jira suite of apps on Episode 1 of our latest season of Inside Microsoft Teams.
After the episode aired, we had a lot of comments loving the segment but asking us about the Teams integration for Jira Cloud for developers. I am happy to announce that today, we are releasing a special bonus episode focused on Jira Cloud and the Jira Suite in Microsoft Teams for Developers.
As you are watching this episode, make sure to share your favorite feature you’re seeing on Twitter by mentioning @Jira with #JiraforTeams by March 10. The folks at Atlassian will randomly pick three (3) winners that will receive $50 to spend at the Atlassian swag store.
Tygrr DosRemedios – Product Manager, Atlassian
At Atlassian, our mission is to unleash the potential of every team. We know that every time you switch between tools, that is harder to achieve, which is why we are investing in a new breed of integration on the Teams platform. We are thinking beyond building integrations that merely link tools for the sake of it. My team and I have spent the last year interviewing customers, digging into the data, and building this next generation of integrations.
Our newest release, Jira Cloud for Teams, was purpose-built to individualize your workflow, create cross-team visibility, and hone your focus in new ways. The new Jira for Teams app does just that, with multi-level functionality that spans across all areas of Teams: meetings, chat, calling, collaboration, and automation.
Here’s what customers are most excited about:
Freedom to own your workflow
“I just love email,” said no developer ever. Skip the inbox and get your Jira notifications in Teams, which are totally customizable. And with the handy Jira tab in the personal scope, you can view issues assigned to you – no context switching necessary. Customers shared in interviews that this is a game-changer – they can now treat Teams as their browser and stay focused on deep work.
Start, pivot, and finish in Teams
We all know that meeting or chat message – the one that makes you realize you need to pivot. Whether it’s big or small, there are major consequences if the conversation happens, and nothing gets updated. And Jira can’t be a source of truth if it’s out of date.
This is exactly why we built in functionality to turn chats into a comment on a Jira issue (or a new Jira issue altogether). And for those curveballs that come up in meetings, use the Jira app to edit issues assigned to you right in the side panel.
And to keep you rolling with the punches, we made Jira link cards actionable, so you can edit fields, add comments, and update the status right from chat. No waiting for a new window to load and no logging in again – you’ve got better things to do.
Admin-friendly
We all know that our IT pros are the real heroes of this story. Without their help and expertise, there’s little progress to be made. Thankfully, the Teams Admin Center allows you to turn on app availability, pre-pin it for your users, and monitor app usage. Check out our full walkthrough of the Jira setup process (I promise, it’s simpler than you think!).
We’ve also created automated welcome cards that guide users through the features of the app, so you can answer fewer questions and they can get up to speed faster.
Whether you’re an IT admin or an operational leader, driving organization-wide adoption of a tool like Teams is no small feat. We put together this guide of tips and tricks to help IT and operations managers overcome common deployment obstacles: 3 Ways to Make your Team Fall in Love with Microsoft Teams.
Thanks again to the folks at Atlassian for their great partnership on our bonus episode and check out Jira (free for up to 10 users). Finally, make sure to check out the companion blog from our Teams General Manager Nicole Herskowitz on our Microsoft 365 Blog as well as the Jira bonus episode on Inside Microsoft Teams.
Questions, comments, and/or suggestions? Contact us at IMT@microsoft.com.
Until next time,
Stephen Rose
Host of Inside Microsoft Teams
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The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) have released a joint Cybersecurity Advisory identifying indicators of compromise associated with AvosLocker ransomware. AvosLocker is a ransomware-as-a-service affiliate-based group that has targeted victims across multiple critical infrastructure sectors in the United States including, but not limited to, the Financial Services, Critical Manufacturing, and Government Facilities sectors.
CISA encourages organizations to review the joint Cybersecurity Advisory and apply the recommended mitigations.
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Drupal has released security updates to address a vulnerability affecting Drupal 9.2 and 9.3. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to take control of an affected system.
CISA encourages users and administrators to review Drupal Security Advisory SA-CORE-006 and apply the necessary update.
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I am thrilled to share an overview of the exciting new capabilities coming in the 2022 release wave 1 for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Marketing, and more importantly, the value that these new capabilities will bring you because we’ve tailored it to meet, and exceed, the needs of today’s marketers and their customers.
Marketing has always been a team sport and is even more so in today’s landscape.
Marketers are being chartered to think about the entire customer journey and to champion across the organization to elevate end-to-end customer experiences. They’re asked to be more agile in responding to market conditions, to be more efficient in content creation, and to deliver it all with higher quality, greater impact, and proof that they’re delivering business impact. With the upcoming release wave, Dynamics 365 Marketing can help you meet every one of these challenges head-on.
It will give you the flexibility like never before to easily collaborate across people, departments, and applications, to personalize customer interactions across the entire customer journey, and to design custom experiences to happen in the moments that matter, thanks to real-time customer journey orchestration.
Here are a few highlights of some of the exciting new innovations that will be released for general availability over the next few months and what they can mean for business users and marketers alike.
Marketing teams need to respond to market conditions quickly in order to create impactful moments. This has gotten more complicated with hybrid workplace scenarios and the fact that more and more marketers are engaging with colleagues in other departments to land the right engagement across the end-to-end customer journey. To keep these cross-functional teams (and frankly all of us) productive, we must avoid context switching, and instead, keep people in the flow of work.
With this release, we bring Microsoft Teams chat natively into Dynamics 365 Marketing to allow you to easily collaborate with your team without leaving the flow of work. Because each Teams chat is tied to the individual work item, it enables everyone involved with the project to have the same context and increases focus so they can create the highest-impact journeys, emails, and other content more efficiently.
For Dynamics 365 Sales and Dynamics 365 Customer Service users, the new unified customer activity timeline will bring cohesiveness across the end-to-end customer journey. The timeline is interwoven with activities from these Dynamics 365 customer engagement apps, so you don’t need to leave your flow of work to view your Dynamics 365 Marketing real-time marketing interactions. With the full picture of engagement history at their fingertips, customer-facing teams can better create impactful journeys, plus easily search or filter to find the relevant interaction history.
And to offer the ultimate in flexibility, in addition to the comprehensive list of out-of-the-box triggers, you can now trigger journeys or measure goals from common customer data changes across any Dynamics 365 customer data. Each interaction, such as a completed application, a renewed contract, or a closed service ticket, represents an opportunity to engage more deeply with your customers. Those interactions can now be used to kick-off, drive, and measure customer journeys in just a few clicks, without requiring developers or customizations.
Personalization is no longer a luxury. It is critical to increase the likelihood that customers will make an initial purchase, repurchase, and recommend your products or services to others. Personalization drives impact. Companies with significant growth generally have a higher usage of personalized marketing.
One of the first steps in personalization is to create compelling content that will resonate with your customers. To make this easier, we are introducing reusable content fragments to allow your team to quickly assemble beautiful emails with just a few clicks. These content fragments can include layout, advanced elements, and personalization, so there is no limit on the content you can create and save for reuse. With a library of reusable content, you can simply mix and match different pieces to create your messages.
Next, personalize your emails to delight your customers. Personalization within the email editor is also faster and easier than ever before. You can use pre-defined dynamic text to personalize your emails without the need to know the underlying data model to do it.
You can also personalize and customize your emails by creating conditional content with an easy-to-use, no-code experience. Use any mix of personalized text, images, and layouts, and create rules for selecting the right content, using segment membership, attributes, or triggers. For instance, members of the Contoso Winery Red Wine Club will receive the images/text/layout for red wines, while members of the White Wine Club will receive those pertaining to white wines instead. You will also get detailed analytics to help monitor how each variation is performing.
Build personalization into customer-centric journeys that can boost your return on investment (ROI) with the help of AI-powered next best content. In addition to allowing you to specify manual rules for content/offer selections, you can leverage AI-based optimization to tailor content/offers to match the preferences, interests, and motivations of each of your unique customers. After all, compelling content and offers are powerful tools in getting customers to engage or keeping them from churning.
And for Dynamics 365 Customer Insights users, when it comes to getting your message out to the right customers, you can choose to use customer insights data from your own Azure Data Lake Storage to build segments, specify conditions, and personalize messages to build rich, real-time journeys while maintaining full control over the underlying data.
Customer expectations of today demand that businesses rise to a new level of customer obsession to meet them. Winning and keeping customers is becoming increasingly more competitive. Brands must provide the best experience possible when customers engage. This is why we continue to invest in building out more and more real-time engagement capabilities into our Dynamics 365 applications.
In the last Dynamics 365 Marketing release, we introduced native support for SMS providers Twillio and Telesign to enable organizations to connect around the world via SMS. Capabilities in this release enable you to continue the conversation with your customers by taking action on SMS keyword replies. You will be able to create custom keywords for use in SMS replies that will guide the journey based on the response to ensure flexibility and agility are built into your customer experiences.
Additional capabilities allow you to trigger journeys more selectively based on qualifying conditions to better drive customers to action. We eliminate the need to create cascading branches or specifying conditions with more than two possibilities. For instance, to re-engage buyers who have abandoned carts, you may want to qualify buyers who have more than $100 in their cart for a journey that gives a $10 coupon incentive to complete their purchase. This empowers your marketing team to engage the right audience in the most impactful way, and to have more flexibility by re-using the same event trigger for a variety of scenarios. These capabilities increase a marketer’s productivity by simplifying, not only the journey logic and creation, but also the analysis when journeys are live as well as the readability and maintenance of more complex journeys.
And finally, if you can dream it, you can do it. With a seamless integration between real-time marketing journey orchestration and Power Automate, we enable you to have limitless customization possibilities and fine-grained control of your customer experience by leveraging a wealth of connectors and actions. This allows semi-technical marketers to automate journey steps quickly and easily leaving deep technical resources to be more focused on complex needs.
We are excited to be delivering so much value in the 2022 release wave 1 for Dynamics 365 Marketing, value that will enable you to elevate end-to-end customer experiences, be more agile in responding to market conditions, be more efficient in content creation, and to deliver it all with higher quality and greater impact.
The capabilities highlighted above are planned to be released from April 2022 through September 2022. Consult the release notes for the most up-to-date details.
I’m excited to take you on this exciting journey with usas always, there will be more to come.
To learn more about how your organization can elevate your customer experiences, visit the Dynamics 365 Marketing webpage and sign up for a free Dynamics 365 Marketing trial to explore real-time customer journey orchestration and the other rich capabilities offered in Dynamics 365 Marketing.
And join us at the Microsoft Business Applications Launch Event on April 6, 2022, for an inside look at what’s new across Dynamics 365 and Microsoft Power Platform.
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