Claudio Mendes

📨 Alert: DKIM replay attacks continue this week. Several non‑Apple IPs are spoofing appliedid@id.apple.com and still passing DKIM and DMARC, which lets these messages evade most email security layers. To help defenders identify and hunt these attacks, I’m resharing my LinkedIn article below: DKIM Replay Attacks Exposed - Hunting Methods linkedin.com/pulse/defender… #Cybersecurity #DKIMReplayAttack #DefenderXDR

Customers who want to in-place upgrade their servers to Windows Server 2025 to upgrade using the Windows Update service, and without the need for Windows Server 2025 physical media can now configure a special registry setting to enable this functionality (or by configuring group policy) - find out more at: techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/windowsse…

Did you know there are at least 6 ways to store data about users in Entra? 😅 Outside of normal user object attributes, directory extensions tend to be one of the best fits for most things, except for sensitive data - use custom security attributes ;) #comparison-of-extension-types" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/ex…

You can now upgrade to from Windows Server 2019 and 2022, simply and easily using Windows Update! Once you opt-in, simply run Windows Update and click 'Download and Install', and wallah! Same experience you are used to on Win11. It's THAT EASY! techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/windowsse…

#ConfigMgr CB2509 Hotfix Rollup KB36949461 released with important bug fixes learn.microsoft.com/en-us/intune/c…

Huh. Am I the only one who didn't know that Microsoft makes a tool called EventLogExpert that is supposed to be an improved version of event viewer for IT/helpdesk people? github.com/microsoft/Even…

60% of breaches come from vulnerabilities we already knew about. Not zero-days. Not advanced attacks. Just known gaps. So why is third-party patching still a mess? We’re breaking it down at @mmsmoa 📅 May 7th at 10am. Come hang with us ➡️ bit.ly/4tWK42S #MMSMOA #ITCommunity #MSIntune #EndpointManagement

File Pilot, a modern and fast file explorer, is officially out in public beta! filepilot.tech After 3 years of development and hard work, it's finally in your hands! A huge thank you to everyone who helped in any way throughout this journey!

PowerToys 0.99 is here 🎉🛠️ 🖥️ Control your monitors with Power Display 🪟 Move windows from anywhere with Grab And Move ⚡ Command Palette & Dock upgrades ✨ Plus tons of fixes and polish Check out the blog post to learn more: aka.ms/powertoys-rele…

@2pintsoftware #DeployR Hyper-V inception: using DeployR to build out a lab kit. @mmsmoa session No lab? No problem!

Recently, @jarwidmark and I hosted a webinar about Secure Boot Cert updates. We had a great question about reading the JSON output of Microsoft's remediation script and I just posted a quick blog about that here: Parsing Intune Remediation JSON Output deploymentresearch.com/parsing-intune…

The Driver Automation Tool V10 is now live on GitHub. Automate your way to Driver and BIOS uin Configuration Manager and Intune. Go play - driverautomationtool.com github.com/maurice-daly/D… #MEMSummit26 #MSIntune #ConfigMgr

Microsoft Teams to get efficiency mode on PCs with limited resources bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft… bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft…

Learn how to enable Quick Machine Recovery in Intune and recover failed Windows devices faster. SCDudes Guide: systemcenterdudes.com/how-to-enable-… #Windows #MSIntune #QMR #Security

Let’s be honest. Most teams *think* they’re covered for Secure Boot. June 2026 certificate changes say otherwise. Firmware, bootloaders, OS… gaps hide everywhere. Devices still boot. Reports look clean. That doesn’t mean you’re secure. See how to get a clear answer with a new #AdvancedInsights report for #ConfigMgr ➡️ bit.ly/4sHDU6y #MSIntune #EndpointManagement #SCCM #ITCommunity

admscope.com/admx/ - a nice new tool. #intune #msintune #notmine

🚀 New Dell SupportAssist for Clients v5.0.1.2516 is out! 🔹 Universal Installer — Home & Business now share the same package 🔹 Use SupportAssist ADMX Deployment files to convert Home ➡️ Business via Group Policy #Iwork4dell #Dell #SupportAssist

I'm excited to announce that the #DriverAutomationTool, a free community tool now in its 10th version and celebrating 10 years of continuous development, will be launched at #MEMSummit2026. New dedicated website -driverautomationtool.com #MSIntune #SCCM #ConfigMgr #Community

Anthropic pays engineers $750,000+ a year to understand how LLMs work. Stanford just put a 2 hour lecture that covers 80% of it for FREE. Bookmark this. Give it 2 hours today. It might be the highest ROI thing you do this month: