by Scott Muniz | Sep 30, 2022 | Security, Technology
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Cisco has released security updates for vulnerabilities affecting multiple products. A remote attacker could exploit some of these vulnerabilities to take control of an affected system. For updates addressing high and low severity vulnerabilities, see the Cisco Security Advisories page.
CISA encourages users and administrators to review the advisories and apply the necessary updates.
by Contributed | Sep 29, 2022 | Technology
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A banner image for the Microsoft Ignite event happening October 12-14, 2022.
For this year’s Microsoft Ignite on October 12-14, we’re looking forward to sharing our latest innovations to help you meet the opportunities and address the challenges of managing IT environments in the current economic climate.
IT organizations large and small are on a mission to ensure they’re getting the most value out of their current investments. To do this, many organizations are adding adoption specialists and other new roles in the IT department to help drive adoption and usage of new services and ensure positive user experience. Recently, we’ve evolved the Microsoft 365 admin center to help IT admins with everything from managing deployments and updates to understanding the adoption and usage across their organization.
At Ignite, we’re excited to share new innovations designed to address the needs of these new roles and also improvements to help you administer Microsoft 365 more efficiently. All to help you maximize the value of your investments.
Ignite will be offering a variety of content and many ways to engage with us and with each other. You can expect keynotes and breakout sessions, live virtual roundtables, community engagement, and expert discussions. We pulled together the most relevant pieces for Microsoft 365 admins to help you get better oriented at the event and get the most value for your time.
Realize value through new intelligent capabilities designed for Microsoft 365 admins and adoption specialists
Speakers: James Bell, Amisha Bhatia
Over the last few years, organizations of all sizes found themselves moving part or all their IT environments to the cloud to support remote employees, whether they were ready or not. Now that the dust has settled a bit, IT admins are taking a closer look at how they can continue driving adoption and improving the end user experience to ensure they’re getting everything they can out of those investments.
In this session, James and Amisha will discuss two new Microsoft 365 admin capabilities that provide deeper visibility into people and technology, usage, health, training, product feedback, and Net Promoter Score (NPS) trends. They’ll also talk about how IT admins and change experts can use this information—which includes tenant-level data only to ensure user privacy is protected—to drive awareness and adoption campaigns to help users understand the art of what’s possible and get the most out of Microsoft 365 capabilities. This information also helps IT admins identify trends and proactively address adoption issues.
Empower partners and SMB customers to achieve more with Microsoft 365
Speakers: Meg Garland, Nick Seidler
Our mission at Microsoft is always to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Today, more than ever, we want to ensure that achieving more doesn’t mean adding complexity, which can prevent you from getting the most out of your Microsoft 365 investment. This is especially important for our partners securing cloud transformations at small and medium-sized businesses (SMB) and for smaller organizations with small IT teams who are already stretched to their limits.
In this session, Meg and Nick will provide a closer look at new investments in the Microsoft 365 admin center, including the Microsoft 365 Lighthouse admin portal for Managed Service Providers (MSP) and the Microsoft 365 Admin mobile app and Admin app in Microsoft Teams, and the new Business Advisor program, designed to help our partners and SMB customers drive operational efficiency and ensure a secure environment for users.
How to optimize your environment and manage change using Microsoft 365 admin center
Speakers: Sandhya Shahdeo, Maryam Khabazan
Based on your feedback over the last year, we’ve continued to improve admin experiences to help you keep your Microsoft 365 environment healthy, and effectively manage change. Sandhya, Maryam, and team will give you an overview of the latest Microsoft 365 admin center innovations for managing your day-to-day efficiency with features like Global Search and ServiceNow integration, reducing security risks through greater visibility into updates, managing change for users more effectively, and improvements we’ve made to make tracking system health and monitoring your Microsoft 365 environment.
Unlock new experiences across Microsoft 365 to lower costs and empower employees
Speaker: Colette Stallbaumer
Organizations today face the challenge of engaging and empowering an increasingly distributed workforce at home, in the office, and everywhere in between. Leaders must reduce cost and complexity while continuing to invest in employees to meet changing expectations. To gain competitive advantage in this rapidly evolving business environment, organizations need integrated, cloud-powered solutions that enable employees to be productive and secure–from anywhere. Join us to learn about the new capabilities we are lighting up across Microsoft 365 to power this new world of work.
Roundtable sessions: A closer look at new Microsoft 365 admin center capabilities
Join us for our roundtable sessions where our product experts will provide more technical deep dives and discussions on how you can use the Microsoft 365 admin center to ensure you’re getting the most out of your Microsoft 365 investment:
What’s New in Microsoft 365 administration and adoption tools
Karuana Gatimu and Amisha Bhatia will join you for a discussion about understanding Microsoft 365 usage across your organization. You’ll have a chance to provide feedback on our new user experience and usage features, such as new roles, analytics, and tools, and discuss how you envision using these features in your own organizations. They will also share best practices for making the most of these tools.
Microsoft 365 monitoring, alerts, and service health
Emine Atayurt and Vibin Chingapurath will talk with you about best practices for keeping tabs on your Microsoft 365 environment and reacting quickly to problems. They’ll explain how you get notified about issues in your tenant that require action, show you how to tag users for early issue detection, and demonstrate advanced monitoring for service incidents. Most importantly, they’ll get your input on what the product roadmap should look like to make you successful in these areas.
Self-expression in Microsoft 365: Creating a unified profile editing experience
Zina Ndugwa, Sonia Perunneparampil, and Samantha Kitetu will present the latest profile editor designs to understand how you might use the editor in your organization and any challenges you predict. They also want to learn what features resonate more with your organizations and how you think the profile experience can assist you in supporting hybrid work today.
We are excited to have you join us at this year’s Microsoft Ignite!
Join us for a post-Ignite Microsoft 365 admin center AMA on Tuesday, November 1st at 10:00 AM PT to ask questions about news from Ignite. Make sure to RSVP to the event in the link above!
Continue the conversation or start your own in the Microsoft 365 community as Microsoft Ignite approaches! Make sure to Follow or Subscribe to the Microsoft 365 Blog space so you don’t miss any announcements from Ignite.
by Contributed | Sep 28, 2022 | Technology
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Connecting the Education Community
The Education community thrives on the never-ending quest for information, and the ability to share that information with others. It strengthens us, enlightens us, and can be harnessed and used for positive change in each of our lives. In today’s world, we have so many options on HOW we educate ourselves, and HOW we share that information with others. And in this digital age, the access to information and knowledge is abundant, but oftentimes can be overwhelming.
The technologies that help us enable our education are also changing, and they have become increasingly important in keeping us connected with those we teach and those who teach us. In fact, the importance that technology has in creating new ways to make information more accessible, more inclusive, and more comprehensive is at the core of what drives this tech community. As technology evolves, it’s our collective goal to ensure it changes for the better.
The End of an Era
This past month saw the industry exit of one of true pioneers in the education industry, Edmodo. For almost 15 years, Edmodo has helped strengthen the education community by creating tools that have enabled teachers to share content, distribute assignments, and manage communication with students, colleagues, and parents worldwide. And while we’d like to say a tremendous “Thank You” to the Edmodo team, we also wanted to reach out to the community to help fill the void that the loss of some of these tools may have on your classrooms.
How Teams Can Help
While technologies in this industry change, the connected classroom is still an essential part of our educational environment, and the tools and support teachers and students can utilize are important to our overall success. The entire team at Microsoft Education is dedicated to the continued support of the education community and offers a host of solutions that can help get the most out of in-person and hybrid learning environments.
For example, Microsoft Teams for Education is part of a product suite designed to empower every learner and bring everyone and everything together in one powerful communication application. It’s built with tools and features to support the evolving needs of students and teachers in both small classrooms and larger educational institutions. Microsoft Teams for Education has both free and paid subscription plans that can fit the needs of any school and provides the necessary tools and support to help you get started right away.
By combining a classroom’s communication and productivity tools in one place, Microsoft Teams enables you to:
- Collaborate seamlessly by making it easy for educators to set up virtual classrooms, keep assignments and grades organized, and collaborate on any number of files in real time.
- Connect virtually to make remote and hybrid learning fun and engaging. Chat, video, file sharing, and other features help students and educators connect and communicate more naturally.
- Communicate securely with the ability to reach out to students, staff, parents, and guardians in a safe and secure environment, including supervised chats for students.
In addition to providing collaboration, connection and communication tools, Teams can also greatly enhance the learning experience by:
- Encouraging independent learning by providing access to personalized tools that allow students to practice and learn on their own, with the help from our AI-assisted digital learning coaches and built-in progress trackers.
- Developing social skills by supporting students’ emotional and social well-being and providing a safe space to navigate feelings with age-appropriate activities that promote Social-Emotional Learning (SEL).
- Enhancing hybrid education by bridging the gap between in-person and remote educational environments with easy-to-use tools that make blended learning more convenient and efficient for everyone.
We understand that the school year has already begun, and that the amazing tools Edmodo brought to your classroom are going to be missed. We hope Teams can help fill some of these gaps and provide you the solutions you need in the fastest and most efficient manner. From all of us at Microsoft, to the entire education community, best of luck with the new school year, and let’s make this the best one ever, together.
Mike Tholfsen
Group Product Manager
Microsoft Education
by Scott Muniz | Sep 27, 2022 | Security, Technology
This article is contributed. See the original author and article here.
CISA has released three (3) Industrial Control Systems (ICS) advisories on September 27th, 2022. These advisories provide timely information about current security issues, vulnerabilities, and exploits surrounding ICS.
CISA encourages users and administrators to review the newly released ICS advisories for technical details and mitigations:
• ICSA-22-270-01 Hitachi Energy AFS
• ICSA-22-270-02 Hitachi Energy APM Edge
• ICSA-22-270-03 Rockwell Automation ThinManager ThinServer
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