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Using Jobs in PowerShell 7

Last Update: Jul 17, 2023

PowerShell jobs are an integral part of PowerShell. This handy feature allows administrators to run commands asynchronously. Asynchronous commands allow for parallel execution cutting down on time and fully leveraging compute power.

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How to Configure Notifications in Windows 10 for Maximum Productivity

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

How to set up notifications in Windows 10 to maximize productivity while not missing important tasks and messages.

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Discover Who Creates Guest Accounts in Office 365 Applications

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Office 365 applications now create many guest accounts in Azure Active Directory. You can see what accounts exist, but it’s more difficult to discover who created the accounts – or why they were created. Fortunately, the Office 365 audit log holds a lot of useful data that can be interrogated to find some answers and PowerShell is a great tool for slicing and dicing audit data. See what you think of the answers I’ve come up with.

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Monitor Windows Server Security Using Azure Sentinel Part 1 – Set Up a Workspace and Data Connector

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

How to connect Windows Server to Microsoft’s modern cloud-native SIEM solution Azure Sentinel.

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Using the Ternary Conditional Operator in PowerShell 7

Last Update: Jun 05, 2025

PowerShell 7.0 introduces a familiar mainstay of most programming languages, the Ternary Operator. Using a much shorter syntax for if/then logic, it makes defining conditional values for properties much more concise and easy to read.

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Taking a Look at Your Hybrid Cloud Storage Appliance Options

Last Update: Nov 19, 2024

Seamlessly extending your local storage to the cloud is what hybrid cloud storage appliances offer. Sometimes these hybrid cloud storage options are extensions to local storage systems or sometimes they are specifically designed for hybrid cloud storage.

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Microsoft Hopes to Leverage Office 365 to sell Earbuds

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Microsoft has a new pair of earbuds that don’t come cheap but they also integreat with Office 365.

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Understanding and Using the PowerShell 7 ForEach Parallel Option

Last Update: Jun 05, 2025

Loops are one of those crucial logic components that every programming language uses extensively and PowerShell is by no means any different. A loop allows you to iterate through a collection of objects performing one or more operations on each.

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Change in Management Philosophy Needed to Accelerate Teams Growth

Last Update: Jul 02, 2025

Microsoft Teams is very successful at present, but a nagging doubt exists that some of the approaches taken by Microsoft towards Teams management and administration are less than optimum. It’s great to introduce a mass of new features on an ongoing basis and it’s better when policies exist to control the use of the features. But do new features always need to be enabled out-of-the-box?

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How to Upgrade to PowerShell 7

Last Update: Jul 17, 2023

Looking to upgrade to PowerShell 7? Here’s the easy way to move to the new version of the platform.

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