Russell Smith profile picture

Follow Russell

Russell Smith

Editorial Director

Editorial Director at Petri IT Knowledgebase. Russell has more than 20 years' experience working in IT. From small business to large government IT infrastructure projects.

Russell started his writing career for Windows IT Pro magazine in the early 2000s. Since then, Russell has contributed to a variety of publications, including Petri, CDW's list of publications, and various industry blogs including Netwrix, BeyondTrust, and others.

In addition to more than 1000 articles Russell has authored, he has also written a book on Windows security and co-authored another for Microsoft's MOAC series. Russell has also authored several courses for Pluralsight.

LATEST

Introduction to Windows Hello for Business

Last Update: Jul 24, 2023

Russell explains what Windows Hello for Business is and how it differs from Windows Hello for consumers.

View Article

How to Set Up Windows Hello for Business

Last Update: Jul 24, 2023

Learn how to set up Windows Hello for Business using Microsoft Intune.

View Article

Role-Based Access Control Comes to Intune

Last Update: Jul 24, 2023

In this Ask the Admin, Russell Smith looks at how Microsoft’s Role-Based Access Control can help you manage administrator access to its Mobile Device Management service.

View Article

Remove Stale Computer Accounts from Active Directory Using PowerShell

Last Update: Jul 21, 2023

Search for and remove inactive users and computer accounts and query Active Directory – all by using PowerShell. Find out how in this handy post!

View Article

How to Solve Invalid_Client Error When Joining Windows 10 to Azure AD

Last Update: Jul 17, 2023

Configure MDM autoenrollment to solve Invalid_Client Azure AD join error message.

View Article

Understanding Hybrid Azure Active Directory Join

Last Update: Jul 17, 2023

Devices hybrid joined to AAD are not joined to AAD. But instead, joined to ADDS and automatically registered with AAD.

View Article

How to Set Up SMS-Based Authentication for Microsoft 365 and Azure Active Directory Users

Last Update: Jul 17, 2023

Configure SMS-based sign-in for Azure Active Directory and Microsoft 365 users.

View Article

Join Windows 10 to Azure Active Directory During OOBE

Last Update: Jul 17, 2023

Before you perform an AAD domain join, you should understand the difference between an AAD domain-joined device and one that is registered with AAD.

View Article

How to Check Whether Windows 10 is Joined to Azure Active Directory

Last Update: Jul 17, 2023

How to check if Windows 10 is connected to an Azure Active Directory domain.

View Article

How to Enable Passwordless Authentication with Azure AD

Last Update: Jul 17, 2023

Microsoft announced at its Ignite conference, which ran March 2nd – 4th 2021, that passwordless authentication is now generally available. Microsoft has been pushing passwordless over the past couple of years as a more secure way to provide access than passwords and multifactor authentication. Now that passwordless authentication is generally available, organizations can roll out…

View Article
Go to page