IT Knowledgebase Articles

Aidan Finn shows you how to access an Azure Windows or Linux virtual machine console using serial access when you can no longer log in using RDP or SSH over the network.

Microsoft adds support for embedded WebM video content in Edge.

For those of you jumping into PowerShell on Linux, here are 5 things you’ll want to keep in mind.

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

Jasper Oosterveld compares the Modern SharePoint experience to the Classic SharePoint experience.

Microsoft recently stunned a lot of people by announcing that Service Fabric, the platform upon which many of Microsoft’s cloud services are built, was being released under MIT open-source licensing.

Aidan Finn shows you how you can restore an Azure virtual machine from a snapshot, using the recent update that was rolled out to Azure Backup.

Teams now hides the Office 365 Groups that it creates from Exchange clients (Outlook, OWA, and the mobile apps). That’s as it should be for groups created for new teams. If you want to hide groups created for older teams, you can run the Set-UnifiedGroup cmdlet, but that soon becomes boring when you might have hundreds of groups to process. PowerShell to the rescue once again.

One of the things that annoys me in our industry is how supposedly educated people take advice and guidance on IT from no-nothings, the barfly, or the town idiot.

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