Ready to accelerate your Zero Trust journey? Discover what’s next
For admins | 1-minute read Zero Trust isn’t just a security buzzword—it’s the new baseline for protecting your organization in a world where threats are always evolving. But what does it really take to move from strategy to action? Find out by reading our recent blog, Accelerate your Zero Trust journey: Using the Microsoft Zero Trust workshop for impact on the M365 Accelerator site. In it, we break down some of the real-world challenges IT admins face and show how this hands-on workshop can help you build a clear roadmap forward. For example, learn how you can use the workshop to: Assess and improve your security posture by evaluating your organization’s current security maturity across six critical Zero Trust pillars (Identity, Devices, Data, Network, Infrastructure, Security Operations), identify gaps, and prioritize actions for improvement. Drive cross-team alignment and executive buy-in by bringing together stakeholders from security, infrastructure, networking, and compliance for communication, consensus building, and creating a data-driven roadmap that resonates with leadership. Turn security strategy into actionable results with practical steps for leveraging the Zero Trust Workshop to transform security from a reactive task into a proactive, strategic advantage for your organization. Next steps Ready to move beyond theory and see how Microsoft’s approach can help you secure identities, apps, and data? Then Accelerate your Zero Trust journey is your next must-read. Get the full story and workshop details here.
Network connectivity test TCP Connection results unreliable
My team has spent the last 2 business days trying to get the https://connectivity.office.com/ TCP connection test to complete successfully to appease the Microsoft Unified Support Team. They don't want to take our MS Teams crash diags until they see SSL Interception Detection and TCP connection tests passing successfully. We can't get TCP connection tests to pass, we get one of the following: Success Attempt #1 Success, Attempt #2 Failure Any number of errors to unblock URLs such as (but not limited to) ocsp.digicert.com,ocspx.digicert.com,ocsp.omniroot.com,su.symcb.com,sr.symcb.com,sd.symcb.com,s1.symcb.com,sa.symcb.com We figured it was something with the corporate network but that's not the case. Last night we had about 50 employees try this test from their home (personal) computers that have no connection to our corporation. The TCP Connection test fails on home (consumer) PCs. What's the story with this TCP Connection check?Loop governance, lifecycle, manageability for IT Admins – Nov 2024
Dive into our latest update on Loop governance, lifecycle, and manageability tailored just IT admins! Discover how Loop's seamless integration with Microsoft 365 can transform your team's productivity with real-time co-authoring, versatile components, and enhanced security features. From Copilot Pages to comprehensive manageability roadmap items, this blog has everything you need to confidently pilot and fully enable Loop in your organization.
[After crash] Pin to taskbar creates duplicates, everything seems messed up
Hi guys, Today, when trying to backup my system drive for the first time my PC crashed rather violently (BSOD) and unexpectedly. Since the reboot, my taskbar looks and feels differently. 1. Now when I click on any of my pinned apps, the app just opens as a duplicate on the taskbar: It happens to all the pinned apps. I have tried unpinning and pinning again, even from the original app (not from a shortcut). Doesn't change anything. I should mention that I am using StartAllBack (as you can probably see). Never had this issue before. 2. Also, when I open a new Explorer window, it goes to the right of the taskbar. Even if I drag it to the left (like you can see with the "TELECHARGEMENTS" window), if I close it then open it again, it goes again to the right. This wasn't the case before the crash, all Explorer windows stayed nicely on the left. These are the two issues I'm facing right now, when everything used to work perfectly before that **bleep** crash. On the bright side, my PC definitely feels faster since the crash/reboot. Go figure! Thanks in advance for your help!
Taskbar multi-line
Hello, I switched from Windows 10 to Windows 11 24H2. As a programmer, I had many programs open simultaneously on Windows 10. My taskbar had two rows, allowing me to quickly switch between programs. Microsoft always talks about making everything faster. The fact that you can't even make the taskbar two-row is a complete step backward. I'll go back to Windows 10 for now and hope Microsoft improves this. Or is there a way to enlarge the taskbar? Wolfgang Saul
Windows 11 PC Display Won't Turn On After Sleep Or Shutdown
After I shutdown my pc and then boot it back up again I hear the fans spin and my pc's power light go on, but my display remains off. After I sleep my computer and turn it back on (either from the power button or from my keyboard) it does the same thing. My current only fix is to scoot my computer out from it's little alcove and click the power supply button and turn it off and back on again and then the display will turn on. I know this is unhealthy for the pc, but it's the current only way for me to get it to work. Can I get some help? p.s. : I checked and reset my BIOS settings and it still won't turn back onPermanently disable hands free telephony windows 11?
Whenever I play a game that uses a mic I get the annoying quieting/distortion of sound when hands free telephony turns on, and disabling it fixes the issue. However it turns on again every time I disconnect and reconnect my headphones (any including bose and beats buds +). My headphone mic wouldn’t work without hands free on so I bought a mic (first desktop, never had these issues on laptops). Is there some way to permanently disable this setting and/or get the headphone mics to work?Windows not recovering from sleep
However, after updating to version 1903 my computer doesn't recover from sleep mode, it tries, fails then shuts down and restarts. Ive updated the graphic drivers etc no help, anyway please see attached screenshot of 'event viewer' screengrab. for clues ps where can i post screenshots?How to bypass windows 11 system requirements during installation on an old Laptop?
Hi, I have a Dell XPS 13 laptop bought in 2016. It comes with Intel Core i5-5200U, 4GB RAM and 128 SSD. When I am trying to install Windows 11 from a USB drive on this laptop, an error pops up and says this pc can't run Windows 11. Is there any way to skip this and bypass windows 11 system requirements during installation? This is a test computer and I have a complete backup of important staff. I want to give a try on Windows 11 instead of the old Windows 8.1 on this old laptop. Unfortunately, I don't have enough budget to build a new PC that meets all the system requirements of Windows 11. Much appreciated if you some one could shed some lights on bypassing windows 11 system requirements during installation. [Updates on Mar 18]: For quick reference, I managed to install Windows 11 on my old laptop with the help of WinBootMate app suggested by user Menda380. It has a built-in module to bypass the requirements.
