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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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Six Tips for Managing and Working with Large Media Files

If your business needs to store and manage RAW image files generated by professional cameras, high-resolution videos, or other large media files, then local network storage and specialist software can help you improve productivity. But there’s no one-size-fits-all solution, so evaluate your needs and expectations carefully.

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Windows 10 Your Phone Gets Notification Mirroring and Suddenly Becomes More Useful

Microsoft adds notification mirroring between Your Phone and Android handsets.

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Internet Explorer Mode and Other Enterprise Features Now Available for Testing in Microsoft Edge Insider Preview

Microsoft updates the Canary channel Edge Insider preview build with IE mode support.

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No Major New Features in Windows 10 19H2 But Enterprise Features and Performance Fixes Coming

Windows 10 19H2, which is the second feature update of 2019 planned for Windows 10 in fall this year, will be delivered via servicing as a Cumulative Update for users running the Windows 10 May 2019 Update.

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Patch Tuesday July 2019

This month sees Microsoft patch two zero-day vulnerabilities in Windows, an issue that may cause BitLocker to go into recovery mode, and the usual list of important and critical flaws for other products.

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Linux Usage Surpasses Windows Server in Azure Cloud

If you are a Windows shop, Windows Server is still the best way to provide file and print, and granular management of Windows.

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Gen 2 Virtual Machines Now In Preview For Microsoft Azure

Generation 2 virtual machines (VMs) have been available in Hyper-V since Windows Server 2012 R2 and they provide several important features that weren’t supported by generation 1 VMs, some of which are now available in Azure VMs.

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What You Need to Know About Connecting 4K Monitors to Notebooks

In this Ask the Admin, I look at what you need to know before connecting a high resolution 4K display to a notebook.

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Everything You Need to Know About Windows – June 2019

This month Microsoft releases Edge preview builds for older versions of Windows, an early preview version of Windows Terminal makes its way to the Microsoft Store, the Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 previews in Windows 10 Insider build 18917, and Microsoft patches NTLM relay attack vulnerabilities.

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