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Mount an Active Directory Backup Using the Database Mounting Tool

Last Update: May 24, 2025

In this Ask the Admin, Russell Smith explains how to use the ADDS Database Mounting Tool to look at backups of AD.

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Do You Need Third-Party Antimalware in Windows?

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

In today’s Ask the Admin, we discuss whether it’s necessary to use third-party antimalware in Windows 10 and Windows Server 2016 on your company’s PCs.

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Change the System Partition From MBR to GPT in Windows 10

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

In today’s Ask the Admin, Russell Smith shows you how to change the system disk partition type from MBR to GPT in Windows 10 Creators Update using a command-line tool.

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Secure Active Directory Using the Clean Source Principle

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Russell Smith explains how to integrate the clean source principle into your Active Directory design and management practices to keep your systems secure.

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My Azure Infrastructure Highlights of 2017

Last Update: Jun 25, 2025

Aidan Finn reviews his highlights in the last year of Azure infrastructure improvements. Please share your highlights too.

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Protect Users Against Malicious Websites Using Windows 10 Application Guard

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

In today’s Ask the Admin, Russell Smith shows you how Windows Defender Application Guard can protect enterprise users against malicious websites.

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Azure SQL Elastic Pool, Single Databases, and DTUs

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Aidan Finn explains some of the language that is used to specify and size Azure SQL, the database-as-a-service offering from Microsoft Azure.

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Infrastructure-as-Code Part 3: Deploy Active Directory and Certificate Services in Azure

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

In the final part of this series, Russell Smith shows you how to use the code I created in the previous two installments to provision the resources in Azure.

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A Teams PowerShell Primer

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

The Teams PowerShell module is flawed, but that does not mean that you cannot do work with it. Here’s a primer of the most important cmdlets, together with a link to a rather interesting approach to finding out what Office 365 Groups are team-enabled.

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Hybrid Cloud Security Risks

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Learn about the main Hybrid Cloud security risks so that you are protected as you add complexity to your data center.

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