Windows 10 news you can use, August 2019 edition Insights into Windows 10 deployment & management, security & compliance, and productivity & accessibility.
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Deployment & Management
Evolving Windows 10 servicing and quality: the next steps. As part of our commitment to transparency, we are providing an overview of how we plan to further optimize the delivery of our next feature update. The next feature update for Windows 10 (known in the Windows Insider Program as 19H2) will be a scoped set of features for select performance improvements, enterprise features and quality enhancements. https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2019/07/01/evolving-windows-10-servicing-and-quality-the-next-steps
The next feature update for Windows 10 (internal code name: 19H2) will have a new update option that will be available to devices running Windows 10, version 1903. 19H2 will be a scoped release with a smaller set of enhancements focused primarily on select performance improvements, enterprise features, and quality enhancements. For commercial customers, read the article to understand the impacts. https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Windows-IT-Pro-Blog/Moving-to-the-next-Windows-10-feature-update-for-commercial/ba-p/732968
MSIX Labs and Training Videos – Now Available! The MSIX Training Labs contain a series of hands-on exercises geared at enabling people to become more familiar with different aspects of MSIX. From the MSIX packaging tool, to adding a package support framework, or just becoming familiar with some of the command line tools, the labs are a great place to get started for folks looking to learn more about MSIX. https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/MSIX-Blog/MSIX-Labs-and-Training-Videos-Now-Available/ba-p/768407
Upgrading Windows 10 devices with installation media different than the original OS install language. In this post, we will look at a scenario where a hypothetical multilingual organization wants to deploy Windows 10 to devices across multiple geographies in multiple languages. We’ll then outline the options that can be used to work around device install language issues and successfully deploy a Windows 10 feature update. https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Windows-IT-Pro-Blog/Upgrading-Windows-10-devices-with-installation-media-different/ba-p/746126
Improvements for enterprises signing MSIX packages (Insider Preview). MSIX requires packages to be signed in order to be deployed. This helps us to offer integrity on the package being deployed and to ensure the contents being deployed are what was packaged from the developer or IT Pro. While this is great, some customers found it problematic acquiring certificates within their enterprise. In an upcoming Windows release will improve the tooling to enable signing of MSIX packages from your Azure Active Directory tenant. https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/MSIX-Blog/Improvements-for-enterprises-signing-MSIX-packages-Insider/ba-p/772386
Upgrading Windows 10 devices with installation media different than the original OS install language. In this post, we will look at a scenario where a hypothetical multilingual organization wants to deploy Windows 10 to devices across multiple geographies in multiple languages. We’ll then outline the options that you can use to work around device install language issues and successfully deploy a Windows 10 feature update. https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Windows-IT-Pro-Blog/Upgrading-Windows-10-devices-with-installation-media-different/ba-p/746126
Microsoft Defender ATP (MDATP) supports network connection monitoring from different levels of the operating system network stack. A challenging case is when the network uses a forward proxy as a gateway to the internet. The proxy acts as if it was the target endpoint. In these cases, simple network connection monitors will audit the connections with the proxy which is correct but has lower investigation value. MDATP supports advanced HTTP level sensor. By enabling this sensor, MDATP will expose a new type of events that surfaces the real target domain names. https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Microsoft-Defender-ATP/MDATP-Monitoring-network-connection-behind-forward-proxy-Public/ba-p/758274
Comprehensive protection for your credentials with Credential Guard and HVCI. The goal of Windows Defender Credential Guard is to make it incredibly difficult for malware to move laterally in an enterprise network and gain higher privileges. The theory is simple: prevent malware from stealing passwords, hopping boxes, and elevating privileges. An attacker is dead in the water if they can’t get credentials in the first place. https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Windows-IT-Pro-Blog/Comprehensive-protection-for-your-credentials-with-Credential/ba-p/765314
Oftentimes, organizations require better control over their raw data. To answer this need, Microsoft Defender Advanced Threat Protection (MDATP) allows you to stream Advanced hunting events to Azure Event Hubs or to an Azure storage account. In this blog, I am going to demonstrate how to stream your Advanced hunting events to Azure storage account and set an Azure blob storage lifecycle rule to move old data to low-cost storage. https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Microsoft-Defender-ATP/MDATP-Streaming-API-Public-Preview-DIY-example/ba-p/769427
Microsoft Defender ATP (MDATP) Evaluation lab is now available in public preview! The evaluation lab allows you to create up to three machines with a click of a button. Each machine is provisioned for you by Microsoft Defender ATP and is available for all your testing needs for three days. They’ll come with the latest and greatest Windows 10 installed, they’ll be onboarded to your environment, and configured with all the Microsoft security baseline settings in place in audit mode. https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Microsoft-Defender-ATP/Microsoft-Defender-ATP-Evaluation-lab-is-now-available-in-public/ba-p/770271
Most machine learning models are trained on a mix of malicious and clean features. Attackers routinely try to throw these models off balance by stuffing clean features into malware. Monotonic models are resistant against adversarial attacks because they are trained differently: they only look for malicious features. The magic is this: Attackers can’t evade a monotonic model by adding clean features. To evade a monotonic model, an attacker would have to remove malicious features. One of the latest innovations in our protection technology is the addition of a class of hardened malware detection machine learning models called monotonic models to Microsoft Defender ATP‘s Antivirus. https://www.microsoft.com/security/blog/2019/07/25/new-machine-learning-model-sifts-through-the-good-to-unearth-the-bad-in-evasive-malware
Protect your device from malware with Windows Sandbox. Have you ever downloaded a program from a website or opened an email attachment thinking it was from someone you know, only to find out it was infected with a virus? Such actions can wreak serious havoc. Windows Sandbox allows you to run a program or open a file while keeping it apart from your device—almost as if it were on a totally separate computer. https://community.windows.com/en-us/stories/protect-your-device-from-malware-with-windows-sandbox
Microsoft Defender ATP (MDATP) includes a sandbox in each customer tenant, to detonate files in a safe environment and provides a rich and readable report of what the file can do – gain persistence, communicate to IP addresses, change the registry, etc… but in some case you want to run such analyses in your own sandbox or do reverse engineering work, with MDATP you can now download and inspect any file found on your network. https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Microsoft-Defender-ATP/Download-files-for-in-depth-investigation/ba-p/782078
Productivity & Accessibility
Video (0:58) – It’s easy to forget what we were working on, especially when it was days or weeks ago. Timeline for Windows 10 PCs helps you jump back into something you were doing – like working on a document or browsing a website. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvTJ8kGRi18
Sync your settings in Windows 10 allows some of the common personalization preferences to be synced to the cloud and applied to any PC you sign in to with your Microsoft account. By letting Windows 10 sync your settings, you can have a more consistent experience no matter which device you happen to be using. https://community.windows.com/en-us/stories/sync-your-settings-for-a-consistent-Windows-10-experience
Video (1:52) – Microsoft is moving past old ideas of sound design and designing sound with all senses in mind. Recognizing the way sound moves us, emotionally and physically, we are taking a different path to designing for sound holistically. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQwAbIZKmc0
Video (0:43) – Introduction to Dictation in Windows 10.Use dictation to convert spoken words into text anywhere on your PC. Dictation uses speech recognition, which is built into Windows 10, so there’s nothing you need to download or install to use it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gvv1wVUvt9U
Capture and share videos with Game bar. Did you know that you could do more than just gaming? Videos are everywhere. We watch them for instruction and entertainment. With Windows 10, it has become super easy to take screenshots of your screen using the Snip & Sketch tool. But what if you want to record live video action? Game bar can do that too. https://community.windows.com/en-us/stories/capture-and-share-videos-with-game-bar
In other news related to Windows 10…
The next version of Microsoft Edge: Enterprise evaluation and roadmap. Includes topics such as (1) cross-platform, modern web, (2) integrated IE11 mode, (3) simplifying deployment and management, (4) protecting customers’ data and privacy, and (4) user productivity at work. https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2019/07/16/microsoft-edge-enterprise-evaluation-roadmap
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