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Simplifying IT: How Action1 Is Changing Patch Management Forever
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- May 07, 2019
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Take your PowerShell programming to a new level by learning how to use classes.

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If you have been on the internet at all in the last year and read anything about the Office 365 ecosystem, you have heard of PowerApps.

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Deploy Active Directory and Certificate Services Using Azure Resource Manager

In this three-part series, Russell Smith discusses how he deployed an Active Directory forest with 2 domain controllers and a member server running certificate services in Microsoft Azure.

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Understanding External Access to Documents in a Microsoft 365 Tenant

It's a good idea to understand whether any external people have access to documents in your Office 365 tenant. There's no option on the Office 365 or SharePoint Online consoles to tell you what access external users enjoy to SharePoint sites, so we must use some PowerShell to interrogate SharePoint and see what that reveals.

Last Update: Sep 05, 2024
May 31, 2018 Tony Redmond
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Managing Windows Server with Puppet

In today's Ask the Admin, Russell Smith shows you how to set up Puppet Enterprise Master in Azure and provision Windows Server so that it bootstraps with the Puppet agent installed.

Last Update: Sep 05, 2024
Feb 23, 2018 Russell Smith
Windows Server
Install and Configure Puppet 5

As a companion to my series on managing Windows Server with Puppet Enterprise, this short two-part article will guide you through installing your own Puppet 5 server on Red Hat Linux in Hyper-V.

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Aug 2, 2018 Russell Smith

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