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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.

LATEST

Redstone 4 Brings Better WebM Support in Edge

Apr 11, 2018
Russell Smith

Microsoft adds support for embedded WebM video content in Edge.

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Focus Assist Replaces Quiet Hours in Windows 10 Redstone 4

Apr 09, 2018
Russell Smith

In Redstone 4, Quiet Hours has been renamed to Focus Assist and brings several improvements.

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Managing Windows Server with Puppet Part 6: Installing, Updating, and Removing Software

Apr 04, 2018
Russell Smith

In today’s Ask the Admin, Russell Smith shows you how to manage Puppet, Windows Installer, and Chocolatey.

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Managing Windows Server with Puppet Part 5: Managing Local Users and Groups

Apr 03, 2018
Russell Smith

In today’s Ask the Admin, Russell Smith shows you how to manage local users and groups using Puppet.

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Enable Unauthenticated Access to a Windows File Share

Mar 30, 2018
Russell Smith

In today’s Ask the Admin, Russell Smith explains how unauthenticated access to Windows file shares works.

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Everything You Need to Know About Windows — March 2018

Mar 29, 2018
Russell Smith

Windows 10 Redstone 4 reaches RTM and Microsoft announces the availability of a preview version of Windows Server 2019.

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Patch Tuesday March 2018

Mar 21, 2018
Russell Smith

This month, Microsoft patches a remote code execution vulnerability for CredSSP, helps Intel distribute microcode updates to protect against Spectre Variant 2, and Office 2016 gets updated to version 1803.

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Project Rome and Windows 10 Timeline

Mar 19, 2018
Russell Smith

Redstone 4 will be finalized later this month, so I decided it was time to spin up the latest insider build to see if Timeline is a useful feature or just a marketing gimmick.

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Managing Windows Software Using Chocolatey

Mar 15, 2018
Russell Smith

In today’s Ask the Admin, Russell Smith shows you how to get started with the Chocolatey package manager for Windows.

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Managing Windows Server with Puppet Part 4: Working with Files and ACLs

Mar 13, 2018
Russell Smith

In this Ask the Admin, Russell Smith shows you how to use the file resource and manage permissions on files and folders.

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