IT Knowledgebase Articles

Russell Smith shows us how to use Windows PowerShell to perform basic file management operations in Windows Server and Windows 8.

Joining us from the future, Exchange Server Pro, Exchange MVP Paul Cunningham (@exchservpro) will join us from Australia to discuss everything we wanted to know about Exchange High Availability.  What do businesses do to ensure their email is available 24×7?  Business Continuity, HA and how DAG’s can help ensure Exchange is available even during the worst…

Russell Smith shows us how to use the Microsoft Azure Virtual Machine Optimization Assessment Tool to get advice about running Active Directory, SQL and SharePoint in the cloud.

Aidan Finn serves up a detailed how-to article on scheduling Azure VM startup and shutdown using Azure Automation to save you even more money.

Jeff Hicks revisits a previous article on importing a CSV file in PowerShell and offers some additional improvements, including use of the Import-CSV and Get-Content cmdlets.

Need help in choosing between Azure VM series? Aidan Finn gives us a run-down of the different VM sizes and how to choose between them.

Jeff Hicks shares a tip for using PowerShell to easily copy files between the Hyper-V host and guest virtual machines.

In this easy how-to article, Russell Smith shows us how to create an Office 365 group in Outlook.com.

In this week’s other news, a quick thanks, Surface 2 finally sells out, putting Windows 8 and Surface RT/2 in perspective, Build 2015 sells out in 15 minutes, and the Apple Watch will run out of juice before you leave for work in the morning.

Whether you have been in IT for 2 months or 20 years it is likely you have seen something that makes you go hmmm. During this episode Rick Vanover (vExpert, MCITP and VCP) will join us from VMUG in Toronto to share IT horror stories and some of the stupid things us IT admins do….