Russell Smith

Russell Smith shows us how to configure Internet Explorer proxy settings in Windows 8, using both the Windows 8 Modern UI and desktop Control Panel.

So what Windows 9 features would make you upgrade? Russell Smith provides a wish-list of features he’d like to see in the next version of Microsoft’s client OS.

In this how-to article, Russell Smith shows us how to use PowerShell to view, transfer and seize Active Directory FSMO roles.

Russell Smith shows us three different ways to add a network printer to Windows 8, including one that relies on Windows PowerShell.

Learn PowerShell to reduce the time it takes to deploy entire Windows Server environments, on site or in the cloud, from hours to mere minutes.

Russell Smith shows how easy it is to create a USB recovery disk for your Windows 8 system.

In the first of a three-part series, Russell Smith explains how to use the Windows Server Security Configuration and Analysis Snap-In and the SecEdit command line tool.

Russell Smith shows us three different ways to start windows 8 in safe mode, including using the system recovery tool, a boot disk, and keyboard commands.

Need to get a SharePoint farm into the cloud? Learn how to quickly deploy SharePoint in Microsoft Azure using this handy tutorial by Russell Smith.

Considering moving your Windows Server test labs to Microsoft Azure? Russell Smith outlines some drawbacks to putting your test environment in the cloud.

Russell Smith shows us how to use the PowerShell get-history cmdlet to make a transcript of a PowerShell session.

Russell Smith shares a Windows PowerShell script that provisions member servers in Microsoft Azure.