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Microsoft Office 2016 & 2019 to Lose Support for Microsoft 365 Connections Starting October 2023
by Jake Heberling Desktop & Applications Engineer Microsoft has announced that support for connections to Microsoft 365 services from within Microsoft Office 2016 and 2019 will be impacted starting October 10, 2023. This will have potential implications for access to Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, and OneDrive for Business within those applications, but is not limited […]
Microsoft Starts Disabling Basic Authentication on October 1st, 2022
By Jeyakumar Durai (JD) Cloud Architect Microsoft has announced that October 1st, 2022, is the deadline for the deprecation of “Basic Authentication” usage in M365 tenants. There will be a tenant “Message Center” notification posted seven days prior to October 1st informing customers that “Basic Authentication” will be disabled on any services configured to use […]
Action Required: Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) Vulnerability
by Armen Gharibian Managing Director Microsoft Security Researchers have identified and named a new vulnerability they are coining “MagicWeb” which can be potentially found in organizations who have deployed Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS). MagicWeb grants the ability to obtain and maintain persistent access to the environment. NOBELIUM, the threat actor group believed to […]
Reminder: Deprecation of TLS Protocols & Ciphers Used For Azure AD Communication
by Jake Heberling Desktop & Applications Engineer To improve the security posture of Azure tenants and remain in compliance with industry standards, Microsoft deprecated Transport Layer Security (TLS) 1.0 and 1.1 protocols as well as the 3DES cipher suite (TLS_RSA_WITH_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA) for all Azure Active Directory communication starting on January 31, 2022. Examples of applications that […]
What’s New With Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops 1912 LTSR to 2203 LTSR
by Daniel Ruiz Practice Lead, Citrix Technologies There have been a lot of innovations and changes since the release of Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops 1912, and even more, since XenApp and XenDesktop 7.15, which is targeted to reach the end of life in August 15th of this year. There are many features and improvements […]
VMware vSphere 6.5 & 6.7 End of Support and Planning the Upgrade to vSphere 7
by Michael Trantas Senior Solutions Architect VMware has previously announced the end of general support for vSphere versions 6.5 and 6.7 effective October 15, 2022. Although Technical Guidance will remain available in the support portal through November 15, 2023, VMware will not offer any new hardware support, server/client/guest OS updates, new security patches or bug […]
Microsoft Permanently Disables Basic Authentication October 1, 2022
by Jeyakumar Durai (JD) Cloud Architect Let’s learn the difference between the basic and Modern authentication to understand why Microsoft is moving from the Basic auth to Modern. Basic authentication is considered a weak authentication protocol in which the username and password is sent in with every authentication request, and those credentials are also often […]
Citrix Announces New Vulnerability in Citrix ADC & Citrix Gateway
by Daniel Ruiz Practice Lead, Citrix Technologies Citrix announced a new vulnerability discovered in Citrix ADC and Citrix Gateway that could result in an attacker creating a specially crafted URL redirecting to a malicious website. This vulnerability has the following identifier: Affected versions of Citrix ADC and Citrix Gateway: Appliance must be configured […]
Helient Achieves Microsoft Gold Partner Status
July 2022, Philadelphia, PA – Helient Systems, LLC (Helient) announces achieving Microsoft Gold Partner status in recognition of its work to help law firms adopt the Microsoft Cloud. Helient’s CEO, Steve Hatch commented, “We are experiencing a rapid escalation in cloud adoption as firms recognize that the Microsoft cloud is the most modern, secure, available, […]
Microsoft & Apple Plan To Switch Native Mail App To OAuth (Modern Authentication)
By Jeyakumar Durai (JD) Cloud Architect Microsoft has been driving constant efforts to get rid of “Basic Authentication” – (a weak authentication method subject to easy credential compromise) from the M365 tenants. As a latest update of this effort, Microsoft & Apple have come up with a solution to switch the iOS Native Mail app […]