Timothy Morris, Author at Plixer

Monitoring Microsoft Teams traffic with Plixer Scrutinizer

The modern workplace is filled with companies working largely over inter-office messaging systems. These tools often leverage several different functions aside from chatting, such as video conferencing and file sharing. What was once just a small tool could now potentially be sucking down your office’s bandwidth. In this blog post, we’ll take a look at Microsoft Teams. Since this tool is now coming included in Microsoft Office’s standard line-up, its presence is becoming more and more common on corporate networks.

Network Operations

The importance of monitoring Windows 10 updates

11.04.20 - Timothy Morris

Microsoft has redone their release cycle format, and although it makes things easier for the end user, it can prove difficult to ensure your environment is running the most up-to-date or minimally supported operating systems. Microsoft is now only releasing major feature updates to Windows 10, as opposed to releasing a “Windows 11” or a “Windows 10.1.” Thus it is no longer obvious if an end user is running an outdated operating system. This is a challenge for systems administrators who need to make sure endpoint machines are on the latest Windows 10 update.