Russell Smith

February 2nd, 2021, Microsoft announced ‘Windows 10 in cloud configuration’. ‘Cloud configuration’ is a new recommended device configuration that can be applied to Windows 10 computers using Intune, Microsoft’s Mobile Device Management (MDM) solution, which is part of Microsoft Endpoint Manager (MEM). Organizations can use MEM to apply a standard configuration to devices running Windows…

New queries in Update Compliance provide greater insight for IT when safeguard holds are placed on Windows endpoints.

A near-final build of Windows 10X leaks to the Internet, Microsoft released Edge version 88, and Microsoft is hoping to make Win32 APIs available to more languages. So, let’s get started. Windows 10X leaked build Early in the month, a leaked build of Windows 10X surfaced that allowed us to get hands on with Microsoft’s…

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.