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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.
Last Update: Jul 24, 2023
Russell explains what Windows Hello for Business is and how it differs from Windows Hello for consumers.
Last Update: Jul 24, 2023
Learn how to set up Windows Hello for Business using Microsoft 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.
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!
Last Update: Jul 17, 2023
Configure MDM autoenrollment to solve Invalid_Client Azure AD join error message.
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.
Last Update: Jul 17, 2023
Configure SMS-based sign-in for Azure Active Directory and Microsoft 365 users.
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.
Last Update: Jul 17, 2023
How to check if Windows 10 is connected to an Azure Active Directory domain.
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…