Microsoft MCT & Exchange Admins Meetup at Deira, Dubai UAE Participants

The purpose of this Meetup is to discuss MCT day to day problem and the solutions to fix them. Also discussed MCT portal registration for new MCT awareness and learning materials.

All MCT participants presented and shared his thoughts for the improvement of MCT courses, students issues, and future Microsoft technologies with Office 365 and Azure capabilities.


Event is Organized at Orient IT Services Office Dubai UAE, a Microsoft Gold Partner. 

Announcing Microsoft 365 for US Government

Make no mistake: over the last few years, we’ve seen faster acceleration of government organizations moving to the cloud. So why now? This move is driven largely by the desire to bring the most up-to-date tools and capabilities to employees to meet demands for mobility and create a more modern workplace—and to ensure they are better equipped to face rising security challenges. And this desire is supported by recent legislation like the Modernizing Government.Technology Act, which creates IT modernization funds to help agencies replace aging infrastructure that poses security risks. 

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Microsoft Exchange Admins Meetup at Deira, Dubai UAE

This event will cover discussion on Microsoft Exchange on premises and Exchange online, Office 365 and Microsoft Azure, day to day challenges faced by admins and real life experiences to share with each other about Exchange. We will also discuss the upcoming version of Microsoft Exchange 2019. Register the Event Here:- 

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfG27l8ygF2RwBQV2Ia_9NaUNOP7V-aBA2A82QmPgiXmC2OUA/viewform?c=0&w=1 

Announcing New information protection capabilities across devices, apps, on-premises and the cloud

With an exponential increase in the number of data breaches and regulations such as EU-GDPR, we all feel the urgency to work towards a holistic information protection strategy. We’ve been on a journey with our information protection offerings and vision over the years. You may have noticed our focus broadening from just Azure

Blockchain on Microsoft Azure

Time to put some blockchain in your brain. Take an interstellar adventure and learn why blockchain is the next frontier for digital transformation in business.

Quantum Computing

Quantum computing is many things: important, revolutionary and confusing. Who better to explain this monumental technology in understandable terms than a 19th Century Austrian cat?

Microsoft 365 provides an information protection strategy to help with the GDPR

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which began as a regulatory requirement, is increasingly seen as a long-term opportunity to establish greater trust with customers and further unlock employee collaboration and productivity in many businesses. The intelligent compliance solutions in Microsoft 365 help you assess and manage your compliance risks and leverage the cloud to identify, classify, protect, and monitor sensitive data residing in hybrid and heterogeneous environments to support GDPR compliance.

Updates in Microsoft 365—currently rolling out—help protect sensitive data and include:

• Compliance Manager general availability for Azure, Dynamics 365, and Office 365 Business and Enterprise customers in public clouds.
• Compliance Score availability for Office 365.
• Azure Information Protection scanner general availability.

In addition to the updates announced today, capabilities in Microsoft 365 help to:

Give your dissertation a boost with a grant from Microsoft Research

Need funding to clear a hurdle in the final stages of your dissertation research? Microsoft Research is offering grants of up to US $25,000 to help a select group of doctoral students cross the finish line and enter the workforce.

The Microsoft Research Dissertation Grant is for PhD students at U.S. and Canadian universities from underrepresented groups in computing, including women, African-Americans/Blacks, Latinos, American Indians/Alaskan Natives, Native Hawaiians/Pacific Islanders and/or people with disabilities.

The program is rooted in organizational management research that shows diverse teams come up with ideas and solutions to problems that more homogenous teams miss, which translates to benefits for industry as well as society. In addition, the technology industry has a shortage of computer scientists. The dissertation grant aims to help deepen and diversify the technology talent pool.

The grant program targets doctoral students in at least the fourth year of their studies. Students at this later stage of their doctoral work have a sufficiently concrete research plan to articulate specific funding needs. Earlier stage doctoral students should consider the Microsoft Research PhD Fellowship Program. I’m also pleased to announced that Microsoft Research is increasing the amount of the research grants up to $25,000 (the limit was up to $20,000 per grant in the program’s first year). We hope that this increase allows the award to have a greater impact on recipients’ research and career development. Read More

A worthy upgrade: Next-gen security on Windows 10 proves resilient against ransomware outbreaks in 2017

Adopting reliable attack methods and techniques borrowed from more evolved threat types, ransomware attained new levels of reach and damage in 2017. The following trends characterize the ransomware narrative in the past year:

• Three global outbreaks showed the force of ransomware in making real-world impact, affecting corporate networks and bringing down critical services like hospitals, transportation, and traffic systems
• Three million unique computers encountered ransomware; millions more saw downloader trojans, exploits, emails, websites and other components of the ransomware kill chain
• New attack vectors, including compromised supply chain, exploits, phishing emails, and documents taking advantage of the DDE feature in Office were used to deliver ransomware
• More than 120 new ransomware families, plus countless variants of established families and less prevalent ransomware caught by heuristic and generic detections, emerged from a thriving cybercriminal enterprise powered by ransomware-as-a-service. ReadMore

From ‘Minecraft’ to mixed reality, Microsoft is preparing students for the future

One sunny morning in December, sixth-grader Sophia Sta. Rosa and a classmate were busy working on a book report project, using “Minecraft: Education Edition” to build an amusement park with rides based on events in a novel.

The girls created a rollercoaster, a water slide and other attractions for their park, setting their own criteria and rules for the project. They didn’t want it to be too easy, Sta. Rosa explained, and they wanted to show responsibility so their teacher would let them tackle more complex challenges. To the 11-year-old, the most important lessons she was learning from “Minecraft” weren’t about building structures or coding, but collaboration and problem-solving. ReadMore

What’s the solution to the growing problem of passwords? You, says Microsoft

uick: Change your password again. Make sure it has a combination of capital letters, numbers and special characters. Wait, no. Instead, come up with a long random phrase that you should be able to remember. Wait, no. Stop. Stop the madness! It’s time to kill the password.

This relic from the early days of computing has long outlived its usefulness, and certainly, its ability to keep criminals at bay. More than two-thirds of people use the same, usually not-very-strong password across dozens of different accounts. Weak passwords and stolen identities are the No. 1 source of data loss. Last year alone, 81 percent of major data breaches could be traced back to one individual’s compromised identity.

Microsoft and Adaptive Biotechnologies announce partnership using AI to decode immune system; diagnose, treat disease.

The human immune system is an astonishing diagnostic system, continuously adapting itself to detect any signal of disease in the body. Essentially, the state of the immune system tells a story about virtually everything affecting a person’s health. It may sound like science fiction, but what if we could “read” this story? Our scientific understanding of human health would be fundamentally advanced. And more importantly, this would provide a foundation for a new generation of precise medical diagnostic and treatment options.

Peter Lee, Corporate Vice President of AI + Research (Photo by Scott Eklund/Red Box Pictures)

Amazingly, this isn’t just science fiction, but can be science fact. And so we’re excited to announce a new partnership with Seattle-based Adaptive Biotechnologies, coupling the latest advances in AI and machine learning with recent breakthroughs in biotechnology to build a practical technology for mapping and decoding the human immune system. Together, we have a goal that is simple to state but also incredibly ambitious: create a universal blood test that reads a person’s immune system to detect a wide variety of diseases including infections, cancers and autoimmune disorders in their earliest stage, when they can be most effectively diagnosed and treated.

This Week on Windows: Celebrate the countdown to 2018 with great deals at Microsoft Store

https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2017/12/22/this-week-on-windows-celebrate-the-countdown-to-2018-with-great-deals-at-microsoft-store/#k0KSSbyqebvWQlwT.97

North America MCT Summit 2018

Join other MCTs, industry experts, other MCTs, and guest speakers to learn a lot and have some fun. This is a premier opportunity to update your skills and network. Learn what you need to know to be successful.

https://namctsummit.com/

New Microsoft Pix features let you take bigger, wider pictures and turns your videos into comics

Microsoft has released two new features with today’s update to Microsoft Pix for iOS, an app powered by a suite of intelligent algorithms developed by Microsoft researchers to take the guesswork out of getting beautiful photos and videos.

The first of these features, Photosynth, helps create photos that take in more of the perspective or scene you are standing in front of, whether it is wide, tall, or both. It does this by allowing you to freely pan and capture from side to side, up and down, back and forth, and even go back to the start to include any parts of the scene you may have missed.

“The idea came after some frustrations I had when trying to take a picture of Snoqualmie Falls.

Exchange Server 2019

Microsoft is planed to release Exchange 2019 On-Premises by 2018.

https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/exchange/2017/10/02/exchange-server-2019/

Microsoft Ignite Australia 2017

Microsoft Ignite. Just who is it for?

Technically speaking, Microsoft Ignite Australia is for techies. We’re talking Developers and IT Pros. It’s also for anyone who works with people who work with technology. But look a little deeper and delegates have so much more in common.