After the Oct 14, 2025 end-of-support, Exchange Online can flag hybrid orgs running Exchange 2016/2019 as “persistently vulnerable,” then report → throttle → block mail. Upgrade to Exchange Server SE (or move to EXO) to avoid delays and NDRs techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/exchange/…

Today: Kids staying in their rooms scrolling on their phones all day. 1977:

Seamless SSO is a security risk, and many orgs enabeld it without knowing and are now stuck wondering what might break if they turn it off... Since Microsoft provides no help identifying actual usage, I did some research so you can safely turn it off :) nathanmcnulty.com/blog/2025/08/f…

A popular NPM package got compromised, attackers updated it to run a post-install script that steals secrets But the script is a *prompt* run by the user's installation of Claude Code. This avoids it being detected by tools that analyze code for malware You just got vibepwned

Microsoft releases a new tool to migrate VMs from VMware ESXi to Hyper-V using Windows Admin Center! This agentless, cost-free tool streamlines the conversion of virtual machines from VMware to Windows Server with Hyper-V, providing customers flexibility with their on-premises

i still remember some 25 year old at my corporate job who was the sql-guy for the entire team. got in the office at 10, left at 3. need a complex sql query written? go to him. want to automate it into a tableau? he's your guy. can't put the data into a graph? you guessed it.

Yes - it's still baffling that the league chose these changes without sharing the longer vision statement. That's why people are still questioning them. Without knowing where the league really wants to be in 5/10 years, it's difficult to get behind & support them. Feels dishonest

For the last year, my laptop wouldn't update to Win 11 24H2. Finally cared enough to troubleshoot today. It was the Sennheiser Audio driver for my headset. Removed that and all good. What's the odds I remember that a year from now for 26H2?

This is true in a variety of industries.

notice how Excel is never down

SadServers is (mostly) hosted in AWS but we were not affected by the outage in us-east-1 because we use the brilliant strategy of being in us-east-2 for this exact reason (second time we post something like this)

You can now see if a registered authentication method on a user is active or not in Microsoft Entra > ourcloudnetwork.com/how-to-find-in… 🔥 Microsoft recently added the lastUsedDateTime property on authentication methods returned by the authentication/methods endpoint in Microsoft Graph.

A Warning from History. A year after WW1 ended, A French Pilot, Jacques Trolley de Prévaux, flew an Airship from the Belgian coast to the devastated battlefields of France where millions died. Lost for decades this is part of what he saw remastered in color and HD.

Hey Winnipeg Transit, there is a service advisory stating route changes for the Santa Clause parade but no end time expected. Will that be in effect for all of today. I'm coming home from Grey Cup stuff tonight and need to know.

ive realized that you can replace “ai” with “excel sheets” in any sentence and the impact becomes 100 fold

As an AI expert who totally doesn't think LLMs are the path to AGI, but uses LLMs very avidly to get things done, here is my take on the utility of top LLMs currently: 1) If you don't know what you're doing in a certain domain, you can get interesting and valuable results, but

I've created a service for monitoring uptime of Active Directory along couple of nice features. It monitors dns, ldap, kerberos, ntp/time, adws, replication, fsmo roles, shares, sysvol replication, provides alerts via email with incidents, recoveries, and autogenerating html

As an 11th grade teacher, I've had to give my students guidelines about the ethical use of AI. Here's an easy rule of thumb: If it would be cheating to have a human do it for you, it's cheating to use AI to do it for you. Proof-reading: ok Brainstorming: ok 1/

Correct.

If you've ever had an editor this rings true.