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Microsoft has Microsoft Virtual Academy (MVA) that has lots of good content for you … Here are some IT Pros classes the are all free

Using PowerShell for Active Directory

IT Pros, if you want to automate redundant tasks correctly watch this course and discover how to turn your real-time management and automation scripts into useful reusable tools and cmdlets. Learn to use PowerShell to better create, query, update, delete, and manage your Active Directory. Our expert instructors show you what you need to know about how PowerShell works, and how to put it to work for you!

Enterprise Mobility Suite: Beyond “Bring Your Own Device”

In this course, you’ll learn the basics of Advanced Threat Analytics (ATA), including what it does and how it works. You’ll also get an in-depth look at the supporting services and infrastructure to further implement, manage, and protect your technology assets through on-premises and user-owned technologies and devices. Take what you’ve learned about Enterprise Mobility Suite (EMS) and “Bring Your Own Device” (BYOD) to the next level in this demo-rich training course!

Azure Active Directory Core Skills Jump Start

If you’re constantly resetting customer passwords, this course could solve the problem! Microsoft Corporate Vice President Brad Anderson and Microsoft Technical Evangelist Simon May dive into enterprise mobility, BYOD, and Identity and Access Management (IAM). Don’t miss this in-depth exploration of Azure Active Directory.​​​

Windows 10: Top Features for Consumers

Watch this course for hands-on Windows 10 training for consumers and IT Pros! You’ll get an in-depth look with popular author and technology journalist Ed Bott and Microsoft Worldwide Retail Sales & Marketing Director Ben Rudolph. Explore Windows Hello and the Start menu, along with Cortana, OneDrive, mail, and photos, get practical tips for using Windows 10, and learn about Microsoft Edge

Getting Started with Azure Security for the IT Professional

Does a cloud solution meet your bar for security? If you’re looking at the cloud, you probably have a lot of questions about available solutions, including whether it meets industry standards, attestations, and ISO certifications. Get the information and the confidence you need, from the pros who know, as they demystify security in the cloud. Watch here.

Hybrid IT Management Part 1: Insights, Visibility, and Security Analytics

Watch this course to get deep insights and visibility into your infrastructure, and learn to help protect your IT environment. Microsoft experts show you how to make the most of powerful, robust security and threat analytics capabilities as you modernize your datacenter, in this first in a multi-part series on hybrid IT management.

Deep Dive into Azure Resource Manager Scenarios and Patterns

IT Professionals and Architects, if you’ve got an Azure application with a lot of components or if you’re setting up an Azure deployment, watch this course. An international team of experts shows you how to use Azure Resource Manager (ARM) to manage your Resource Groups and to easily spin up or spin down elements of your application infrastructure.

Microsoft Intune and System Center Configuration Manager Core Skills

Are you continuously balancing flexibility and security, as you enable mobility? We can help! Watch this course as Microsoft Director of Program Management Michael Wallent, Microsoft Technical Evangelist Simon May, and Microsoft engineers teach you how to enable BYOD by deploying a mobile device management (MDM) solution.

A Deep Dive into Nano Server

How does Nano Server fit into the software-defined datacenter? Watch here to get the details, in this fact-filled exploration of Nano Server, led by a team of experts. Learn how to build, deploy, and manage Nano Server to increase speed and agility, tighten security, decrease resource consumption, and boost ROI in the integrated datacenter and into the cloud.

Security in a Cloud-Enabled World

How secure is your data in the cloud? Watch here to find out, with Microsoft Chief Security Advisor Tim Rains and Microsoft Solutions Architect Mark Simos, as they walk you through the customer responsibility roadmap in the Microsoft Cloud Security for Enterprise Architects poster. Whether you’re securing IT assets in a public cloud or a hybrid implementation, if you’re concerned about the increase in cybersecurity threats, don’t miss this opportunity to learn from the same framework that the Microsoft cybersecurity team uses.​

Azure Active Directory Core Skills Jump Start

Watch this course as Microsoft Corporate Vice President Brad Anderson and Microsoft Technical Evangelist Simon May help you prepare your environment for mobility with Windows 10, including Identity and Access Management (IAM) in Azure AD, single sign-on, user self-service management, multifactor authentication, and more!

Microsoft has Microsoft Virtual Academy (MVA) that has lots of good content for you … Here are some Azure classes the are all free

Azure Active Directory Core Skills Jump Start

If you’re constantly resetting customer passwords, this course could solve the problem! Microsoft Corporate Vice President Brad Anderson and Microsoft Technical Evangelist Simon May dive into enterprise mobility, BYOD, and Identity and Access Management (IAM). Don’t miss this in-depth exploration of Azure Active Directory.​​​

Getting Started with Azure Security for the IT Professional

Does a cloud solution meet your bar for security? If you’re looking at the cloud, you probably have a lot of questions about available solutions, including whether it meets industry standards, attestations, and ISO certifications. Get the information and the confidence you need, from the pros who know, as they demystify security in the cloud. Watch here.

Hybrid IT Management Part 1: Insights, Visibility, and Security Analytics

Watch this course to get deep insights and visibility into your infrastructure, and learn to help protect your IT environment. Microsoft experts show you how to make the most of powerful, robust security and threat analytics capabilities as you modernize your datacenter, in this first in a multi-part series on hybrid IT management.

Deep Dive into Azure Resource Manager Scenarios and Patterns

IT Professionals and Architects, if you’ve got an Azure application with a lot of components or if you’re setting up an Azure deployment, watch this course. An international team of experts shows you how to use Azure Resource Manager (ARM) to manage your Resource Groups and to easily spin up or spin down elements of your application infrastructure.

Azure Active Directory Core Skills Jump Start

Watch this course as Microsoft Corporate Vice President Brad Anderson and Microsoft Technical Evangelist Simon May help you prepare your environment for mobility with Windows 10, including Identity and Access Management (IAM) in Azure AD, single sign-on, user self-service management, multifactor authentication, and more!

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News from Microsoft about OneDrive

• Subscribers to Office 365 non-business editions (Home,
  Personal, and University), will receive 1 TB of OneDrive storage per user. For
  the small number of OneDrive users who had their storage allotment boosted to 10
  TB and have used some or all of that space, the extra storage will continue to
  be available for at least 12 months. A full refund is available for any customer
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• Anyone with a free OneDrive account who currently has more than
  5 GB of content stored will receive one free year of Office 365 Personal, which
  includes 1 TB of storage. This offer will arrive via email early next year.
  

• For OneDrive customers who currently have a 15 GB free storage
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  features, but only for those who opt in using this
  link, which is valid until
  January 31, 2016.

• All OneDrive customers with free accounts who do not opt in to
  the loyalty offer will see their free storage cut to 5 GB and the camera roll
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Azure Certification Jump Start – Free Event

70-534 Architecting Microsoft Azure Solutions

Join this training for a full day focused on architecting Microsoft Azure systems and solutions. You’ll also discover what’s required to pass the MCP Azure Certification exam.

We’ll cover all the exam objectives, including PowerShell, through live demos, hands-on labs and discussions, and we will tailor the agenda to fit your needs and concerns. View detailed agenda
Everyone who attends will receive a copy of the Microsoft Press guide, 70-534 Exam Reference: Architecting Microsoft Azure Solutions (co-authored by Dan and a $40 value). The event also includes breakfast, lunch, and drinks during the social hour — all at no cost to you, thanks to our generous sponsors.

Dec 7th 2015 – Microsoft –

11 Times Square NYC, NY

Schedule is

8:00 Registration, Breakfast, Networking and say thanks to our sponsors
8:30 Sharp: 70-534 Introduction & Exam Tips and Tricks (Don’t be late!!!!)
9:15 Design Microsoft Azure infrastructure and networking (15–20%)
10:15 Secure resources (15–20%)
11:15 Design websites (15–20%)

12:00 Lunch & Meet Sponsors & Networking

1:00 Labs & Special Tribute (Hands-On-Labs – Bring your laptops & Power)

1:45 Design an application storage and data access strategy (15–20%)
2:45 Design an advanced application (15–20%)
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5:15 Evaluations, Book Signing and Social

Registration at: http://aka.ms/70-534

I been seeing issues with phone recently and though I would talk about them… You might forget that a Smartphone today is much more powerful that the pc you use 10 years ago. But how do you protect  them?

I seen over and over again phone with anti-virus or malware protection. You would not do that on PC why not protect your phone.

In the last few week I blogged about Problems with IPhones, and Android devices.. But wait there much more to worry about ….

Per Michael Bentley at lookout blog

Lookout has detected over 20,000 samples of this type of trojanized adware masquerading as legitimate top applications, including Candy Crush, Facebook, GoogleNow, NYTimes, Okta, Snapchat, Twitter, WhatsApp, and many others.

Over the past year, Lookout has studied three interconnected families of adware. Lookout discovered the family Shuanet, which, like all of these families, auto-roots the device and hides in the system directory. Kemoge, or what we call ShiftyBug, recently made headlines for rooting the victim’s device and installing secondary payload apps. Another family, Shedun, also referred to as GhostPush, is yet another example of this trojanized adware. While many classify these as simple “adware,” these families are trojans.

Together, the three are responsible for over 20,000 repackaged apps, including Okta’s two-factor authentication app. We are in contact with Okta regarding this malicious repackaging of its app.

The repercussions

For individuals, getting infected with Shedun, Shuanet, and ShiftyBug might mean a trip to the store to buy a new phone. Because these pieces of adware root the device and install themselves as system applications, they become nearly impossible to remove, usually forcing victims to replace their device in order to regain normalcy.

For enterprises, having rooted devices on the network is a concern, especially if those devices were rooted by a repackaged version of a legitimate and popular enterprise app. In this rooted state, an everyday victim won’t have the proper interface to control what apps on the phone request root access. The problem here is that these apps may gain access to data they shouldn’t have access to, given their escalated privileges.

With just a quick search for “malware” on this site you can find many stories about this topic. According to internet security firm McAfee, instances of mobile malware have increased by as much as 700 percent since 2011. It’s time to set things straight once and for all. This is the truth about Android malware.

Less you think IPhone are secure, a new Malware app called YiSpecter, the was discovered by security company Palo Alto Networks, the same entity that first detailed the XcodeGhost hack.

YiSpecter can infiltrate any iOS device via a variety of means, posing as a genuine Apple-signed app once installed. Once on your iOS device, the app can then make itself invisible to the user by disguising itself as an actual iOS app, or hiding itself from the home screen – which means the user has no means of deleting it.

“On infected iOS devices, YiSpecter can download, install and launch arbitrary iOS apps, replace existing apps with those it downloads, hijack other apps’ execution to display advertisements, change Safari’s default search engine, bookmarks and opened pages, and upload device information to the C2 [command and control] server,” the researchers revealed.

Even if manually deleted, the malware will automatically re-appear.

Software for a Phone like Lookout for IOS devices or Android will help protect you NOW before you compromise your device

Get and use AV protection for your phone

I like Lookout but there are other vendors that you can choose. but do nothing and it only time till you download something that take over your device

When

Where

In just the past 12 months, the breadth and cost of data breaches have increased significantly.

In the wake of seemingly unrelenting security failures at organizations of all sizes, from Anthem and OPM to Ubiquity and the IRS, CIOs and CISOs are being asked to create and enforce security programs that can effectively protect their data and reputations. In seeking to balance security against productivity, how can organizations remain nimble without compromising their security posture, especially with highly collaborative cloud tools and platforms? What new trends will dominate minds and budgets in the months to come?

Join us for an evening of lively conversation and diverse perspective on the future of security in the cloud, hosted at Microsoft’s exclusive Technology Center at 11 Times Square, New York, NY. Our featured keynote speaker will be Harold Moss, Senior Director of Security Strategy at Akamai.

Please note that registration is required, as no walk-ins will be allowed by building security.

All proceeds will be donated to the Food Bank for NYC, the city’s major hunger-relief organization

To register go here