Russell Smith

Microsoft introduced Secure Shell (SSH) as a transport for PowerShell Remoting in PowerShell 6. Older versions of PowerShell (Windows PowerShell) are restricted to HTTP/HTTPS and Windows Remote Management (WinRM). WinRM/HTTP is fine for Active Directory (AD) environments. Authentication and communications are secured. WinRM/HTTPS is for accessing workgroup computers, i.e. computers not joined to an AD…

Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) is a management infrastructure built-in to Windows for querying management and operations data. It can be used to query local and remote computers for information like running processes, installed software, BIOS information, and much more using tools like Get-CimInstance. WMI vs CIM WMI is based on the Common Information Model (CIM),…

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) recently released a PowerShell-based tool to help organizations detect compromised accounts and applications in Microsoft Azure and 365.

There are lots of ways that you can remotely manage Windows devices. But some of them require direct network connectivity to the remote devices.

In this article, I show you how to use PowerShell splatting to make your code more readable.

Windows Hello and FIDO2 security keys both provide passwordless authentication. But which is best depends on your organization’s existing infrastructure and user needs.

Faster synchronization, on-demand user provisioning, and attribute mapping come to Azure AD Connect and cloud provisioning.

Microsoft fixes a zero-day in its Defender antimalware software and issues a patch for a vulnerability that was publicly disclosed in December.

History and open tabs sync starts to roll out in some regions for users on the stable channel.

PowerShell scripts can use a lot of resources. And that can be a problem if you need to run a script on a production server without impacting performance.

This month I have some details of changes coming to Windows and a new feature aimed at improving performance in Edge.

Use a .NET API to check if the user running your script is a local administrator.