IT Knowledgebase Articles

Join the #CurrentStatus crew and our very first guest Tom Hollingsworth (@networkingnerd), when we discuss where the IT landscape is headed. Is it just Skittles-eating unicorns flying in the clouds, or do we still have fields of green grass growing? We’ll also find out if Tom is a red or white wine kinda guy.

Jeff Hicks provides a helpful PowerShell function that lets you export or backup the configuration for select virtual machines on your Hyper-V server.

Leverage a protected users group in Windows Server 2012 R2 to protect privileged credentials in this how-to article.

Determine what cmdlets or modules are needed to run a script with this helpful Windows PowerShell tip.

Cut down on the time needed to download your customized PowerShell troubleshooting toolkit with the help of a workflow.

The Microsoft Azure Open Calculator is a powerful tool for pricing your Azure solution on open licensing.

Russell Smith gives us the low-down on Microsoft’s ‘Just-In-Time’ Privileged Access Management model, a feature which will be updated in Windows Server vNext.

Using a Windows Phone? Russell Smith shows us how to scan QR codes in Windows Phone 8.1 using Bing Vision in this quick how-to article.

Are you constantly being the IT pro for friends and family? Save time by building a custom troubleshooting toolkit with PowerShell that you can use over and over.

Russell Smith shows us how Docker works, explains the differences between Linux containers and hypervisors, and discusses whether Docker containers are better than VMs.