To manage your environment, use the AD PowerShell provider that comes with Windows Server 2008 R2, or the Active Directory Management Gateway for any down-level DC.
- By Jeffery Hicks
- 04/19/2011
Licensing changes were made late last week to Microsoft's PowerShell to allow ease of access for those using OSes other than Windows.
Squishing bugs: It's what admins do, especially on Windows and Oracle systems. And Let's not forget Apple and Adobe. Plus: Elevation of privilege problems on Windows 7? A Stuxnet conspiracy theory.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 04/19/2011
One slight omission from news on the IE 10 Preview released at MIX 11: It won't run on Vista boxes.
Microsoft has sent word that the beta version of Windows Intue will exprie on Monday, April 18.
The U.S. government announced legal actions against the Coreflood botnet on Wednesday, and is seeking to prosecute those involved.
Along with the 17 security bulletins in the April patch, Microsoft released a tool to help protect older versions of Office, as well as an update to the winload.exe program.
No surprises as Microsoft releases 17 security bulletins patching of 64 vulnerabilities.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 04/12/2011
Pipeline binding can get you what you want, as long as you use some of the PowerShell tricks up your sleeve.
- By Jeffery Hicks
- 04/11/2011
StatCounters' usage numbers show that Windows 7 has surpassed XP in the U.S.
Microsoft on Monday annouts that its Dynamics prodlcut line will be available as a cloud-based service, thanks to the Azure Cloud platform.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 04/11/2011
Microsoft's advanced security notice previews a large rollout for IE, Windows and some of the tools in the Office suite.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 04/07/2011
Dell announces two-year initiative to build out datacenters to provide customers with capabilities to create public and private cloud resources.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 04/07/2011
No more wading through xml files to get what you need. The Get-FormatData cmdlet offers some nice data presentation.
- By Jeffery Hicks
- 04/05/2011
Plus: A Microsoft Security Development Lifecycle progress report; Symantec sums up 2010 in Internet security.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 04/05/2011
The 64-bit Windows Home Server 2011 (WHS 2011) was released today by Microsoft to its professional service subscribers, while Small Business Server 2011 Essentials (SBS 2011 Essentials) was also released for general evaluation.
According to Gartner, worldwide IT organizations will not be able to continue to avoid migration away from Office 2003 and Windows XP.
Two recently released surveys show that datacenter managers say they don't expect a budget increase for the year, while overall IT spending is on the rise.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 04/04/2011
A new update for Microsoft's Windows Server 2008 R2 allows shared block storage in storage area networks with the use of iSCSI Protocol.
Use SQL Server Integration Services for a quick way to package up the settings on your database servers.
- By Eric Johnson
- 03/31/2011