Russell Smith specializes in the management and security of Microsoft-based IT systems. In addition to blogging about Windows and Active Directory for the Petri IT Knowledgebase, Russell is a Contributing Editor at CDW’s Biztech Magazine. Russell has more than 15 years of experience in IT, has written a book on Windows security, co-authored one for Microsoft’s Official Academic Course (MOAC) series and has delivered several courses for Pluralsight.
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.
Microsoft made the Windows 10 May 2019 Update and Windows Server version 1903 available for download May 21st.
Download Hyper-V Server 2019 now from Microsoft’s Evaluation Center website.
An early preview version of Windows Terminal is now available to download from the Microsoft Store.
Puppet Bolt tasks are scripts that you can run on Linux or Windows systems. A task contains a script, completely unmodified, written in any language supported by the remote system on which the task will run.
This month Microsoft patches four zero-day flaws in Windows 10 and some Bluetooth security keys stop working.
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PowerShell 7 (PS7) is based on .NET Core 3.0 and Microsoft is aiming to provide much greater compatibility with Windows PowerShell modules, as much as 90 percent.
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In today’s Ask the Admin, I’ll show you how to install Windows software in bulk using package manager Chocolatey.
Looking to reinstall Windows 10 quickly and easily using the ‘Reset this PC’ feature? This is how you can do that.
These are the most important new features in the Windows 10 May 2019 Update that you need to know about.
In today’s Ask the Admin, I explain how Microsoft’s new terminal software for Windows 10 improves on the existing console.
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This month’s news roundup includes important announcements made at Microsoft’s Build conference in Seattle, and the general availability of Windows Server 2019 version 1903 and the Windows 10 May 2019 Update.
This month’s quality update for Windows 10 is so good that it installs itself twice, Microsoft releases patches for Intel Microarchitectural Data Sampling (MDS) attacks, and there’s a fix for a zero-day flaw in Windows Error Reporting.
Microsoft Enterprise Search is coming to all Office apps, Bing, SharePoint, OneDrive, and Windows 10.
In the second part of this two-part series, I show you how to synchronize password hashes between AAD and Domain Services, and how to join a Windows Server VM to the new domain.