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How to Block Potentially Unwanted Applications (PUA) With Defender SmartScreen

Enable PUA protection in Chromium-based Microsoft Edge Although potentially unwanted application protection in Microsoft Edge (Chromium-based, version 80.0.361.50) is turned off by default, it can easily be turned on from within the browser. In your Edge browser, select the ellipses, and then choose Settings. Select Privacy, search, and services. Under the Security section, turn on Block potentially unwanted apps. Block Read More

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Understand Windows Autopatch on Azure

Windows Autopatch is a cloud service that automates Windows, Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise, Microsoft Edge, and Microsoft Teams updates to improve security and productivity across your organization. Unique to Windows Autopatch Rather than maintaining complex digital infrastructure, businesses want to focus on what makes them unique and successful. Windows Autopatch offers a solution to Read More

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How to Fix “No active antivirus provider” on Windows 10

The issue was due to ‘DisableAntiSpyware’ registry key under HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows Defender which was set to 1. This has to be changed to 0. And this will enable Microsoft Defender as the active antivirus.

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How to Use Security Baselines to Configure Windows Devices in Intune

Intune makes it easy to deploy Windows security baselines to help you secure and protect your users and devices. Even though Windows and Windows Server are designed to be secure out-of-the-box, many organizations still want more granular control over their security configurations. To navigate the large number of controls, organizations often seek guidance on configuring Read More

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How to Install Remote Server Administration Tools (RSAT) on Windows 11

Quick Reference for PowerShell: Below by Prajwal Desai The steps covered in this article should help you to install RSAT on Windows 11 computer. I will cover 2 methods to install the Remote Server Administration Tools on Windows 11 PC. Remote Server Administration Tools (RSAT) allow you to remotely manage roles and features on Windows Server Read More

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Remove Unwanted HTTP Response Headers on IIS Server

The purpose of this blog post is to discuss how to remove unwanted HTTP response headers from the response. Typically we have 3 response headers which many people want to remove for security reasons. Server – Specifies web server version. X-Powered-By – Indicates that the website is “powered by ASP.NET.” X-AspNet-Version – Specifies the version of ASP.NET used. Read More