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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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Microsoft April Updates Cause Issues for Some Users

Microsoft’s April updates for Windows cause performance and authentication issues for some users.

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Patch Tuesday April 2019

This month Windows is patched for two zero-day flaws, Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 users report that devices with Sophos Antivirus can’t log in after installing KB4493472 and authentication failures to services configured with unconstrained delegation.

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Mitigating Spectre Variant 2 with Retpoline on Windows

The Retpoline patch for Windows 10 was originally slated to arrive in the Windows 10 May 2019 Update but the fix is now in Windows 10 version 1809, although it must be enabled manually.

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How to Secure Hybrid Office 365 Authentication

In today’s Ask the Admin, I discuss whether federated authentication is really the most secure way to set up hybrid authentication between Windows Server Active Directory and Office 365.

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Everything You Need to Know About Windows – March 2019

This month sees Kubernetes Windows container support come out of beta, Windows Virtual Desktop enters public preview, and the next major feature update for Windows 10 nears the finish line.

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How to Run Code Remotely in Visual Studio Code

How to run code on a remote Windows Device from Visual Studio Code using PowerShell Remoting.

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Remote Management Using Puppet Bolt and Windows Subsystem for Linux

How to run remote commands on Windows Server using Puppet Bolt installed in Ubuntu with the help of the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL).

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How to Audit Permission Changes on Windows File Servers

How to set up auditing to track changes to permissions on Windows File Servers.

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Microsoft Retires Windows 10 Semi-Annual Channel Targeted Releases

Microsoft is making changes Windows Update for Business and the Windows 10 release schedule.

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Use Puppet Bolt Tasks to Manage Windows Server

How to use Puppet Bolt Tasks to run remote jobs on Windows Server.

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