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Russell Smith

Editorial Director

Editorial Director at Petri IT Knowledgebase. Russell has more than 20 years' experience working in IT. From small business to large government IT infrastructure projects.

Russell started his writing career for Windows IT Pro magazine in the early 2000s. Since then, Russell has contributed to a variety of publications, including Petri, CDW's list of publications, and various industry blogs including Netwrix, BeyondTrust, and others.

In addition to more than 1000 articles Russell has authored, he has also written a book on Windows security and co-authored another for Microsoft's MOAC series. Russell has also authored several courses for Pluralsight.

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Windows 10 S Mode to Get Win32 Apps Via Intune

Microsoft adds the ability to install Win32 applications using Intune in Windows 10 S Mode in the 19H2 update.

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Windows Defender Certified by AV-Test and Outperforms Much of the Competition

In something of a turnaround, Windows Defender is now matching and outperforming many free and commercial antivirus solutions.

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Connect to Azure Cloud Shell in Windows Terminal Preview

Version 0.3 of Windows Terminal lets you connect directly to Azure Cloud Shell, here’s how you can do that.

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Report Says Microsoft Is Certifying Insecure Drivers

A new report by firmware and hardware security research company Eclypsium says that 40 drivers it tested from different vendors were all found to contain security flaws and all were certified by Microsoft.

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Patch Tuesday August 2019

This month Microsoft patches ‘wormable’ vulnerabilities in Remote Desktop that it discovered during routine hardening, remote code execution flaws in Edge and IE, and a new advisory for LDAP security is issued for Active Directory.

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Windows Server to Add FIDO2 Security Key Support for Password-Less Sign-In

Enable password-less sign-in in hybrid cloud deployments using FIDO2 security keys with the next SAC release of Windows Server.

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Research Shows Zero-Days Much Less Likely to Compromise Latest Windows OS Version

Microsoft researcher releases data that shows the latest versions of Windows are significantly less likely to be compromised by zero-days.

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Get Users Working Faster with Windows 10 Autopilot White Glove Provisioning

Part of Microsoft’s modern management initiative for Windows 10, Windows Autopilot is a suite of technologies designed to simplify the setup process for new and existing devices.

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Everything You Need to Know About Windows – July 2019

Microsoft changes Windows 10 servicing again, Windows Server will get support for FIDO2 security keys in hybrid configurations, Microsoft fixes blocking issues for the Windows 10 May 2019 Update, and much more.

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Enabling Password-Less Sign-In for Azure Active Directory

Microsoft launches public preview of FIDO2-based password-less sign-in for Azure Active Directory accounts.

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